We are positive that this merger will encourage creative working methods and bring about new ideas,” said Cheng-Fei Wong, CEO of Lemon Sky. “Collaborative partnerships in the creative industry are pertinent to keeping things fresh and innovative. But the team has recognised Lemon Sky’s strengths through its animation work for AAA gaming titles such as Overwatch 2, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and SimCity, so this acquisition speaks for itself, according to Desmond. Prior to this, iCandy hadn’t outsourced any art and animation services from Lemon Sky for its mobile games. iCandy’s titles / Image Credit: iCandy Interactive
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While iCandy is known for publishing mobile game titles, Desmond told us that the acquisition of Lemon Sky will bring the additional expansion of iCandy into the console and PC space.
ICandy’s COO, Desmond Lee, told Vulcan Post that the new company, called Sky Candy, is now an independent studio and focuses on AAA mobile games. Titles that Lemon Sky has worked on / Image Credit: Lemon Sky Studiosīack in November 2020, it was announced that Lemon Sky and iCandy were collaborating to create a new gaming company for AAA mobile games. Lemon Sky is a CGI art and animation studio that provides outsourced services to clientele including Microsoft Studios, EA Entertainment, Disney, and Nickelodeon.
In-house game design and developmentĪs a refresher, iCandy’s core business is in game development, game publishing, and e-sports, with its titles played by over 360 million mobile gamers worldwide. With more than 450 employees, the acquisition is projected to generate no less than A$17 million (US$12.36 million or RM51.5 million) revenue per annum. This will make it the largest pure-play game development company on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), and in Australia and SEA too. Surprisingly enough, Dark Souls won with 12%, followed by Doom ‘93 with 11%, The Legend of Zelda: BotW with 10%, Half Life 2 with 9 % and Minecraft with 8%.In recent news, iCandy Interactive (iCandy) announced it will be acquiring 100% of Lemon Sky Studios (Lemon Sky) to scale its existing capabilities. For some reason the list does not feature popular modern titles like Fortnite, MOBA games or cult classics like Witcher 3, Diablo or Ultima Online. Golden Joystick’s list of nominees for the Ultimate Game Of All Time included notable influential games like Tetris, Pac-Man, Doom ‘93, Super Mario 64, Pokemon Go, GTA V, Halo and the original Sim City from 1989. Gabe Newell accepted the award on behalf of all PC gamers.
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As it turned out, PC (Master Race) won this category with 17% of the votes, followed by PS2 with 14%, SNES with 9%, PS4 with 8% and PS1 with 7%. Given the nominees for both special categories, the competition was quite tough, but the winners were somewhat expected, especially on the hardware side.įor the Best Gaming Hardware Of All Time, Golden Joystick included nominees like PS 1/ 2/ 4, Nintendo SNES / N64 / Wii, PC, Atari 2600, ZX Spectrum, Amiga 500 and Commodore 64.
The 2021 Golden Joystick awards that took place yesterday celebrated 50 years of gaming with the introduction of two special categories: Best Gaming Hardware Of All Time and Ultimate Game Of All Time.