TIGA, the trade association representing the UK games industry, today announcedindependent game development and digital publishing studio Icon Games
Entertainment Ltd as its newest member.
Icon Games Entertainment Ltd create casually-oriented game titles
with unique features and a focus on compelling gameplay and fun for all ages.
They develop games for a variety of platforms, including PSVita, 3DS, Wii, PSP,
iPhone and PC and have their own cross-platform technology; ICON/TECH which
enables the team to work effectively between multiple platforms and port to
other systems rapidly.
Established in 2004 Icon started out on PS2 developing value
titles for publishers.
They released several games including: International
Pool & Snooker Championship for PlayIt, International Cue Club 2 and Cue
Academy for Midas and a series of games for IN2Games including RealPlay
Puzzlesphere and RealPlay Bowling. They then started developing for PSP with
Spinout and World of Pool for Ghostlight, and Wii with Build’n Race for Zoo and
Vertigo & Pool Hall Pro for Playlogic.
Having had great success with PS2 AND PSP the directors Claire and
Richard Hill-Whittall made the decision then to move towards self-publishing. This
began with WiiWare. They have since developed and published the following games:
WiiWare (Stunt Cars, Arcade Sports, Soccer Bashi & Family Games), PSP Minis
(Arcade Air Hockey & Bowling, Arcade Darts, Arcade Pool & Snooker,
Bashi Blocks & Family Games), PC (Bashi Blocks, Family Games, Pool Hall Pro
& Vertigo), iOS (Bashi Blocks, Family Games).
Icon Games Entertainment Ltd are working on Vita titles such as
Pub Games and Race Builder. These projects are entirely self-funded and will be
digitally published in house.
Richard
Hill-Whittall, Director of Icon Games Entertainment Ltd explains the company’s
reasons for joining TIGA:
“We are excited to be
joining TIGA and meeting up with the other TIGA members. We are confident that
TIGA membership will help us find opportunities to build and promote our
business, and we hope to share our own knowledge and experiences so far with
other members and to put forward issues that the Indie community face and help
find resolutions.”
Dr. Richard Wilson,
TIGA CEO welcomed the organisation to TIGA:
“TIGA’s purpose is to advance the interests
of game developers and developer-publishers. We do this by championing our
members’ interests in political circles and in the media and by helping our
members commercially. By organising networking events, by negotiating discounts
on key business services and conferences and by providing access to expert
advisors in the fields of marketing, law, PR and many others, we are helping
games businesses in general and the new wave of developer-publishers in
particular to prosper and grow. We are delighted to welcome Icon Games
Entertainment Ltd to TIGA and we look forward to supporting them over the
coming months.”
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Notes to editors:
About TIGA:
TIGA is the trade association representing the UK’s games
industry. The majority of our members are either independent games
developers or in-house publisher owned developers. We also have games
publishers, outsourcing companies, technology businesses and universities
amongst our membership. TIGA was awarded ‘Trade Association of the Year’ and
the ‘Member Recruitment Award’ at the Trade Association Forum Best Practice
Awards 2010. In 2011, TIGA won a further
four awards at the Trade Association Forum Best Practice Awards, including ‘Trade
Association of the Year’ for the second consecutive year.
TIGA has been voted a finalist in the CMI
Management and Leadership Awards 2011 in the ‘Outstanding Organisation (SME)’
category. Dr Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO, has been voted a finalist in the ‘Outstanding
Leader’ category. TIGA was also named as
a finalist in the 2010 Chartered Management Institute (CMI) National Management
and Leadership Awards in the category of ‘The Outstanding Organisation of the
Year Award (SME)’. TIGA is an ‘Investors in People’ accredited organisation.
TIGA is the trade association representing
the UK’s games industry. Our vision is
to make the UK the best place in the world to do games business. Our mission is
to fight for the interests of game developers. To achieve our vision and
mission we focus on the delivery of three strategic objectives: effective
political representation, profile raising and helping our members commercially.
This means that TIGA members are effectively represented in the corridors of
power, their voice is heard in the media and they receive benefits that make a
material difference to their businesses, including a reduction in costs and
improved commercial opportunities.
For further information, please contact Dr Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO on:
07875 939 643, or email richard.wilson@tiga.org.