Funimation strikes mobile & online gaming pact

Funimation Entertainment has teamed with NGames Interactive and GameSamba to create free-to-play mobile and online games based on its anime titles and other IPs.
January 18, 2016

Texas-based Funimation Entertainment has teamed with NGames Interactive in China and Washington’s GameSamba to create free-to-play mobile and online games based on its anime titles and other IPs.

Online/mobile games publisher NGames Interactive will use its studios throughout Asia to develop new licensed titles in partnership with free-to-play mobile games publisher/developer GameSamba, with the help of North American anime brand manager Funimation, which has launched its own anime streaming service and is revamping it in preparation for a February launch in the UK.

GameSamba and NGames are currently working together on the new online game Star Trek: Alien Domain (pictured)And on the horizon for this year, the new partnership between the three companies will see the release a bevy of web and mobile games based on the  hit anime series Fairy Tail and Tokyo Ghoul. More titles are also expected to be announced soon.

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Patrick Callan is a senior writer at Kidscreen. He reports on the licensing and consumer products side of the global children's entertainment industry via daily news coverage and in-depth features. Contact Patrick at pcallan@brunico.com.

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