Thumbstar Signs with Urbanscan Ltd
Thursday, 6th September 2012 at 10:54 am
Mobile developer, publisher and distribution outfit team up with premier digital publisher
Press Release
6 th September, Liverpool, UK
Liverpool, UK– 6 th September - Mobile games service provider and publisher, Thumbstar Games, are excited to announce a deal has been signed with Urbanscan Ltd, leading to the imminent release of a host of exciting new titles across iOS and Android, Smartphone and Tablet devices.
Urbanscan, established by industry veteran Ian Stewart, boasts an impressive portfolio of intellectual properties, including celebrated Gremlin titles Bounder, and ZOOL. The digital publisher and developer are also creating exciting new IPs.
Included in the upcoming releases is a bang up to date edition of the much-loved series, Premier Manager, which was first released 20 years ago and has been fully optimised, and developed, specifically for Smartphone and Tablet experiences.
In addition, other titles to be released in the near future are colourful action puzzler Gem Smashers, a re-imagined version of an 8-bit classic, Bounders World, and social puzzle creator JigAPix.
Of the partnership, Gareth Edmondson, CEO of Thumbstar Games commented“It’s fantastic to be working with Urbanscan. Their gaming heritage is second to none and to be involved in bringing this collection of classic IPs to market globally is very exciting for Thumbstar and the continued growth of our publishing division.”
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About Thumbstar Games
Thumbstar is a mobile games service provider representing more than 150 developers and providing in excess of 3500 titles through 200 channels globally, including the UK and Europe, S.E. Asia, the Americas, the Middle East and Australasia. Thumbstar originally started out in 2008 as an aggregator / publisher of mobile games for J2Me, Windows Mobile, RIM BlackBerry and Symbian. Since then Thumbstar has also moved into mobile games publishing for iOS and Android and expanded its business offering to become a digital developer, distributor and publisher of mobile entertainment lifestyle applications, wallpapers and themes.
About Urbanscan Ltd
Urbanscan is a digital publisher and developer established by industry veteran Ian Stewart to exploit a portfolio of intellectual properties owned by the company, including historic Gremlin titles such as Bounder, ZOOL, Premier Manager, as well as creating exciting new IPs.
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