Kukouri Mobile Entertainment is “moving away from game development”.
As reported by PocketGamer.biz, Kukouri has offered its IPs Pixel Worlds and Tiny Troopers to Social First, with CEO Petri Piipari acknowledging that Pixel Worlds has not been a commercially viable product for a while”.
“With the only active Tiny Troopers game being licensed to an outside publisher and developer, the difficult decision was made to close down all game operations,” Piipari mentioned.
A discover on the official web site now merely reads: “Notice: This website has been shut down. Thanks for all the years”.
Social First, nonetheless, mentioned the choice to tackle Kukouri’s portfolio was “an easy one”.
“We are persevering with to develop Nexus Station with our early group, a lot of whom are Pixel Worlds veterans, and buying the IPs from Kukouri doesn’t change our improvement in any manner,” mentioned Social First CEO and founder, Kim Soares.
“We wished to safe the IPs from Kukouri as they’re legacies of a lot of our group members.
“Pixel Worlds had top-of-the-line on-line communities I’ve ever seen in my profession of 25 years in game improvement. We actually hope to see that group come collectively once more in Nexus Station.”
