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Finnish sport growth firm Kukouri Cellular Leisure has ceased all game-related operations.
The agency has additionally bought its sport IPs Pixel Worlds and Tiny Troopers to fellow Finnish studio Social First, which is now growing Nexus Station, a successor to Pixel Worlds. The sport was launched in early entry on cell in December 2024.
“Kukouri has been shifting away from sport growth for a couple of years now,” mentioned Kukouri CEO Petri Piipari.“
“Sadly Pixel Worlds has not been a commercially viable product for a while and with the one lively Tiny Troopers sport being licensed to an outdoor writer and developer, the tough choice was made to shut down all sport operations.”
A straightforward choice
Social First CEO and founder Kim Soares mentioned he and plenty of Social First workforce members beforehand labored on Pixel Worlds and Tiny Troopers at Kukouri.
“So once we have been approached by Kukouri concerning the opportunity of buying the rights to those video games the choice was a straightforward one” mentioned Soares.
“We’re persevering with to develop Nexus Station with our early neighborhood, a lot of whom are Pixel Worlds veterans, and buying the IPs from Kukouri doesn’t change our growth in any means. We needed to safe the IPs from Kukouri as they’re legacies of a lot of our workforce members” he continued.
“Pixel Worlds had the most effective on-line communities I’ve ever seen in my profession of 25 years in sport growth. We actually hope to see that neighborhood come collectively once more in Nexus Station.”
