Spil Games is a publisher and distributor with more than 100 million monthly active users (MAUs) in native, mobile and web gaming. These are designed to delight the existing Creatures fan base, while igniting enthusiasm with a fresh new audience in anticipation In the meantime, Spil Games will keep fans happy with a series of multi-platform teaser games starting this summer. The first full-blown free2play mobile “ Creatures Family” game will be ready in 2017 targeting players 20yrs old and above. The game sold over 3.5 million copies and had an estimated 5million + engaged community following. You will see a number of significant new mobile games emerging from Spil Games this year.”Ĭreatures was first launched in 1996 on PC and became a firm favourite with players because of its innovative artificial life mechanics. “Iconic brands, like Creatures, will be the cornerstone of Spil Games’ long term strategy,” says Tung Nguyen-Khac, the firm’s CEO. The company has acquired the Creatures IP from Bigben Interactive and has big plans to once again make the game a huge hit with players. Nacon has not responded yet to Frogwares’ allegations.Spil Games is to reactivate the groundbreaking artificial life game, Creatures, for a new audience on mobile and web. You can read Frogware’s full public statement here. Our Frogwares logo was removed from some of the PS4 and Xbox One game’s cover and other marketing materials and we only were mentioned on the reverse side with the technical partners, again, creating a perception that we were neither the authors, nor the owners of the game.ĭozens of domain names for our Sherlock Holmes and The Sinking City brands were bought by Bigben/Nacon without notifying us. At some point we received a statement claiming that one of the console manufacturers hasn’t paid royalties for more than 5 months, while actually the same console manufacturer paid our royalties from other games without any delay in the same period of time.įurthermore, we were surprised to find that copyright notices on box covers and storefront pages were legally incorrect, creating a perception that it was not Frogwares which was the owner of the IP. So it was not possible for us to see if the revenue was correctly calculated or even how many units we sold. We filed a lawsuit against Bigben/Nacon on August 2019 and, incidentally, only then we started to receive income reports, though incomplete and undocumented. A retroactive cancellation on not delivering a product on time that is already out in the market is not acceptable. And once the game was released, we received a letter from Bigben/Nacon that the milestones that were previously approved are being canceled, meaning that we would not receive any profit from the sales of the game. On June 27, 2019, The Sinking City came out on Xbox One, PS4, and Epic Games Store. Only the exclusivity agreement with Epic Games Store gave us some respite, as we knew what we would receive due to the minimum guarantees in Epic’s contract. Were there any sales deals arranged? We were not sure. We weren’t sure of how potential sales could turn out, meaning that we were not able to properly plan our future. “We asked on multiple occasions to see sales forecasts, but the figures sent to us were not consistent. Hence our public statement.”įrogwares has also shared some details about its unhealthy partnership with Bigben Interactive/Nacon. Fans of our games keep asking for answers and quite frankly we are so tired not being allowed to tell them the honest truth. Even after court rulings in our favour we are still being roadblocked in simply being allowed to sell our own game. “We did our best to deal with this quietly and amicably but to no avail. However, The Sinking City is not one of these games and has instead been noticeably removed from multiple stores. In celebration, the team set up sales across multiple platforms and stores for some of its most known games. The statement comes at a time when Frogwares is officially celebrating 20 years of video game development. Frogwares has issued a public statement detailing how the actions of former licensee partner BigBen Interactive / Nacon has led to the delisting of The Sinking City from multiple storefronts.
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