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Company Profile
East Side Games
Website eastsidegamestudio.com/
About
East Side Games, was founded in 2011 by Josh Nilson, Jason Bailey and Galan Akin. Its team has over 100 years experience at AAA studios and over 60 years experience at social and mobile studios and it has become one of the most recognized independent developers and publishers of free-to-play mobile games. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, it is focused on making narrative idle games and creating technology for developers to tell amazing stories. Part of the LEAF group, East Side Games publishes and operates successful franchise titles including Archer: Danger Phone, Dragon Up: Idle Adventure, The Goldbergs: Back to the 80s, It’s Always Sunny: The Gang Goes Mobile and Trailer Park Boys Grea$y Money. East Side Games was recognised in PocketGamer.biz’s Top 50 Mobile Game Makers list in 2020. Collectively it sees over 41.2 million downloads and over half a million unique players each month across all its titles.
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Accolades
Articles featuring East Side Games
Feature
Mass games industry job losses in 2023, but is the end in sight?
Not counting the losses at Alphabet, these collective layoffs surpass 3000 jobs
Next Steps
East Side Games co-founder Joshua Nilson leaves after 14 years
A mutual parting of ways comes with optimism for the future
Mobile Expansion
AEW plugs new mobile game at biggest ever wrestling show in Wembley
“This game helps advance our strategy to connect our TV and PPV broadcasts with the interactive games space”
Layoffs
East Side Games announces round of layoffs
The company reported significant declines in Q1 following a record 2022
Financials
East Side Games sees revenue slide by 32% in first quarter 2023 financials
The dip echoes wider financial shocks across the mobile gaming market in recent financials
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Financials
East Side Games financials sees record revenue for 2022
Recently released full–year financials indicate continued growth
East Side Games Financials
East Side Games celebrates a 32 percent year-on-year growth, credit their success to strong IP licensing
The company credits its success to a focus on IP-based games
Financial Report
East Side Games release Q2 report
The company's tie-ins with popular IPs proved successful
Pgc Toronto
As the Toronto games industry builds in prestige, how will it retain its core strengths?
Gameloft, Transperfect, East Side Games, and Dimoso shares their thoughts on the Toronto and Canadian games industry at PGC Toronto
Supporting Indigenous Storytelling
East Side Games joins programme for Canadian Indigenous games scholarship
Blackbird Interactive, East Side Games, and Timbre Games Studio will partner with the Vancouver Film School on bringing Indigenous voices to the games industry
People Power
Voting closes at midnight for the Pocket Gamer People's Choice Award 2022
Get your players to vote for your game before the deadline!
Sci-fi Surprise
East Side Games Group is developing a F2P Doctor Who mobile game
A multi-year partnership with BBC Studios will see the game launched this year
Four New Games
Mighty Kingdom and East Side Games partner to co-develop four mobile games
Two-year partnership will leverage original and existing IP
Straight Outta Scranton
LEAF Mobile reveals The Office: Somehow We Manage
Based on the popular US version of workplace comedy The Office
Hiring Now
10 games industry jobs to apply for this week
Job vacancies from Jam City, Rovio, Gameloft and Glu Mobile
Not Idling
East Side Games partners with Game Masons to make sports-themed idle game
Expected to launch sometime in 2022
Own Your Own
Leaf Mobile to experiment with NFTs for player rewards
Giveaway in games like Trailer Park Boys
Poc In Mobile
"Commitments to invest in Black developers, fight racism and hate speech online are so necessary and long overdue"
East Side Games' Marchiano Loen explains why the 'glass ceiling' needs shattering
Welcome To The Family
Leaf Mobile snaps up East Side Games for $125 million
“We are tremendously excited to officially welcome East Side Games, a leading Canadian publisher and developer of mobile games, to the Leaf Mobile family"
Welcome Aboard
Former King senior manager Loen joins East Side Games
"I am very excited to share that I am joining the super talented team at East Side Games, as Lead Game Designer"
Best Of 2020
The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2020
Revealed: The movers, shakers, and moneymakers
I Spy
East Side Games teams with FX Networks for Archer: Danger Phone
Was originally announced by Disruptor Beam in 2019
In The 80s
East Side Games teams up with Sony for The Goldbergs mobile game
Based on the TV show
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: East Side Games on how it handles live ops, even when working remotely
CEO Joshua Nilson outlines the company's strategy
Making Of
Making Of: How East Side Games got the It's Always Sunny gang to go mobile
"Working on a successful product based on a television IP opened up some doors to our founders"
Idle Games
East Side Games’ Josh Nilson on the idle genre
“More people are playing games on multiple platforms, and people are consuming content more than ever, across the board.”
Vancouver Vips
Ten Vancouver developers you need to meet at PG Connects London 2020
A Thinking Ape, East Side Games, Monstercat... the list goes on
Jobs In Games
Jobs in Games: East Side Games' Elin Jonsson on the misconceptions of being a games producer
"I know how incredibly hard it is to run a studio, and I don’t take my current job for granted"
Speaker Spotlight
PGC Seattle Speaker Spotlight: East Side Games CEO Josh Nilson on idle games as experiences for everyone
Pocket Gamer Connects Seattle 2019 will take place on May 13th to 14th
Ah Ah Ah
FoxNext and East Side Games team up to bring It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia to mobile
Planned for release on both the App Store and Google Play in 2018
Comedy Gold
Funny-to-play: Having the last laugh with a successful mobile comedy game
Developers share how they make comedy gold
Keep It Greasy
East Side Games' licensed IP Trailer Park Boys: Greasy Money hits two million downloads in a month
Time to crack open a cold one with the boys
Worth It?
Is it even worth being a mobile games indie in 2017?
Oscar Clark asks some indies
Vancouver Week: East Side Games on surviving the city's downturn without going potty
Pot Farm dev on why the studio is staying put
Vancouver Week: Why mobile matters in Canada's capital of creativity
The city that saw off a slump and soared
Top Ten
Top 10 mobile game developers to watch in 2013
East Side Games on why it's not afraid of DeNA, GREE and TinyCo setting up shop in Vancouver
They can't compete with our fierce independence