Casual Games Leader Big Fish Games Celebrates 20th Anniversary

EverMerge and Gummy Drop! creator dives into festivities with in-game events across portfolio

SEATTLE —November 3, 2022— Today, the casual games leader, Big Fish Games, is celebrating 20 years of game development and publishing with in-game events across many of their most popular titles. To kick off the festivities, Big Fish is offering various anniversary activities in popular titles such as EverMerge, Gummy Drop!, Cooking Craze, and more!

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OtherSide Entertainment Appoints Video Game Industry Veteran Jeff Goodsill as General Manager

Producer and executive to grow studio, oversee production of next Warren Spector game

Concord, Mass. – March 2, 2022 – OtherSide Entertainment, the video game studio founded by industry visionaries Paul Neurath and Warren Spector focused on player-powered immersive sims, appointed veteran game executive Jeff Goodsill as General Manager. In this role, Goodsill will lead the growth of the independent studio and oversee production of upcoming next-gen console and PC titles, including Warren Spector’s next title. 

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OtherSide Entertainment Confirms New Warren Spector Game in Development

Key art of Warren Spector’s next game.

The pioneer behind System Shock and Deus Ex is working on an immersive sim under a new IP

Concord, Mass. – March 2, 2022 – OtherSide Entertainment, the video game studio founded by industry visionaries Paul Neurath and Warren Spector, confirmed that a new Warren Spector game is in development. The pioneer behind seminal titles like System Shock and Deus Ex, Spector is now working on an immersive simulation based on a completely new intellectual property developed by OtherSide. 

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Improbable announces the sale of Inflexion Games studio to Tencent

LONDON, UK– February 22, 2022 – Improbable – the British technology company creating the critical infrastructure to power the coming age of virtual worlds and the metaverse – announced today it has sold the entirety of its stake in its development studio Inflexion Games to Tencent. The details of the agreement are undisclosed. The sale operation supports Improbable’s strategy, unveiled earlier this year, aimed at accelerating on Metaverse activities and refocusing the company’s content strategy.

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Medal.tv Acquires Gif Your Game and Fuze.tv to Fuel Sharing and Self-expression in the Metaverse

Leading companies in Cloud Capture and Game Editing join forces to power the future of the Medal platform

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – November 4, 2021 – Medal.tv, the largest platform powering video game clip-sharing across PC, console and mobile, is making moves towards building the best ways to capture and share 3D worlds in what will be known as the metaverse. Today, the company has announced the acquisitions of gameplay recording platform Gif Your Game and video editing application Fuze.tv. Both acquisitions provide resources, technology, and talent for Medal to expand the ways players can express themselves online in real time. 

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Big Fish Hires Trung Luu as VP of Commercial Finance and CFO of Big Fish, Promotes Nicole Opas to SVP Head of Studios and Todd Heringer to SVP Head of Operations

Leading casual & social casino games company behind hit game EverMerge announces new hiring and promotions as part of executive realignment.

SEATTLE – October 11, 2021 – Leading casual and social casino games company, Big Fish Games, today announced the hiring of Trung Luu as VP of Commercial Finance and CFO of Big Fish along with the promotion of Nicole Opas, to SVP Head of Studios and Todd Heringer, to SVP Head of Operations. These changes in leadership build upon the positive momentum Big Fish has seen with its category-leading social casino games and wildly popular game, EverMerge, and set the company up for success as it prepares to launch more franchise-worthy hit games.

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Fast Travel Games Announces New VR Game Publishing Arm

Rapidly-growing, VR-exclusive studio hires Patrick Liu as Head of Publishing

STOCKHOLM — September 28, 2021 — Swedish VR developer Fast Travel Games today announced they are expanding their business to provide publishing services to other VR game developers. Patrick Liu, a games industry veteran of more than 15 years of experience and most recently Head of Games at Mojang Studios, will head up the publishing arm as Fast Travel’s Head of Publishing.   

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