Tag: Thunderful
News Thunderful Announces Its Second Restructuring Program In One Year
Up to 100 redundancies expected
Publisher Thunderful has confirmed that it is launching another restructuring program aimed at reducing its workforce by up to 100 employees. As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, Thunderful is looking to “increase its focus on t
News Thunderful Sells Publisher Headup For €500k After Acquiring The Studio For 11 Million
Something's not adding up here
Thunderful Group is once again back in the news today as it has been reported that the studio is selling Pumpkin Jack publisher Headup at a fraction of what it was bought for back in 2021. Word of this sale comes to us from Gamesindustry.biz which reports that Thunderful has sold the publisher for €500,000 — quite...
News Thunderful Announces Restructuring That Will Affect Around 20% Of Workforce
Over-investments are to blame
Thunderful Group has announced a restructuring program that aims to decrease costs and focus more on areas with the best growth and profitability prospects. As reported by GamesIndustry, the restructuring is ultimately expected to affect around 20% of Thunderful's current workforce, with the group hoping to see the...
Watch SteamWorld Telegraph Special Broadcast From Thunderful - Live!
Let's dig in
After a few teasing announcements, the fine folks over at Thunderful Publishing have prepared a special broadcast to give us a glimpse into what's been going on in the SteamWorld universe. It's been a few years now since SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech launched and even longer since the excellent SteamWorld Dig 2, so we're itching...
Round Up Everything Announced During The Thunderful Digital Showcase
Action-adventures, puzzle-platformers, and... cursed golf?
Thunderful Games is one of the new kids on the game publishing and development block, and they've been gobbling up studios and businesses so fast that they've quickly become an important name to remember. Founded by SteamWorld devs Image & Form and Stick It To The Man devs Zoink, the...
News SteamWorld Dig Is Getting A Third-Person Co-Op Sequel "With A Twist"
Heads will roll
During today's Thunderful Games showcase — yet another one to add to the pile of exciting Direct-likes containing games news straight from the publisher — we saw the announcement of a new game from Image & Form, which is half of Thunderful's development wing and one of its founding studios.
News Thunderful Acquires Robot Teddy To Expand Into Game Investment
Digging for exciting game projects
It's not particularly long ago that Image & Form was a talented but little-known developer that caught the eye - and major success - with SteamWorld Dig. The SteamWorld series has continued to grow in the years since, of course, but through investment and hard-earned success Image & Form has evolved and...
News Thunderful Opens Its Own Store, Kicks Things Off With Limited Edition SteamWorld Goodies
Products from Zoink, Image & Form and Rising Star
Thunderful Publishing, the games publisher made up of Zoink Games, Image & Form, and Rising Star Games, has opened its very own online store. The store is set to feature limited-edition games and soundtracks, all pulled from its impressive library of games across its various development studios...
News Rising Star Games Joins Indie Game Development Supergroup Thunderful
All under one roof
The Thunderful Group, which is already made up of development studios Image & Form and Zoink Games, has announced that it has now acquired publisher Rising Star Games. The Sweden-based group was established in December 2017, by Bergsala Holding (the sole distributor of Nintendo products in the Nordic region),...
News Former Nintendo Of Europe Staffer Ed Valiente Joins Thunderful
Star of the November 2015 Nintendo Direct jumps ship
Thunderful - the new company formed by Swedish studios Image & Form and Zoink! Games - has made a key hire in the shape of Ed Valiente, who joins from Nintendo of Europe. You might remember Ed from the November 2015 Nintendo Direct, where he was brave enough to step in front of...
News Image & Form And Zoink! Games Join Forces Under New Company Thunderful
Both will continue to create their own games, though
Swedish studios Image & Form and Zoink! Games have joined forced to create Thunderful, a new entity which will wholly own both companies. They're not going away, however; the two Gothenburg-based studios will "continue to develop games with existing and new IPs under their respective...
