Derby, United Kingdom Founded 2021 Part of Playtonic Games playtonicgames.com

Playtonic Friends is the publishing label launched by Playtonic Games in February 2021 to release games from other studios. Playtonic, the Derby studio behind Yooka-Laylee, said it would keep making its own games as well. By November 2021 the label had published BPM: Bullets Per Minute, A Little Golf Journey and Demon Turf, and had hired Danny Spiteri as head of publishing. Game Climate covers Playtonic's Yooka-Laylee hub. No separate Playtonic Friends game hub was checked this session.

Key people

  • Danny Spiteri Head of Publishing

Notable facts

  • Playtonic Games launched the Playtonic Friends publishing label in February 2021 to publish games from other studios while Playtonic continued making Yooka-Laylee games.
  • A November 2021 Playtonic press release said the label had already published BPM: Bullets Per Minute, A Little Golf Journey and Demon Turf, and had signed Lil Gator Game, Victory Heat Rally and Blossom Tales 2: The Minotaur Prince.
  • That press named Danny Spiteri, formerly of Raw Fury and Team17, as head of publishing, and said Tencent had bought a minority stake in Playtonic.

1 game published by Playtonic Friends. Filter them in Games We Cover

  1. Yooka-Laylee

    Release
    Out Apr 11, 2017
    Platforms
    PC, Nintendo Switch, Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
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