Kongregate, a leading US-based developer and publisher of browser, mobile, PC and console games, will be launching a brand new game based on
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 2020! The Turtley Awesome news was
announced by Swedish international entertainment group Modern Times Group (MTG), who owns the game publisher and web gaming portal, during the company's Q4 2019 earnings call.
Kongregate's new
TMNT game will be Cross-platform strategy game from Synapse Games, the developers of
Animation Throwdown, which combines the worlds of Fox's
Futurama,
Family Guy,
American Dad,
Bob's Burgers and
King of the Hill.
The
TMNT game will boast 3D Lair Best-in-class graphics, as well as unique heroes and strong monetization.
It's currently unknown what medium the new
TMNT game will be released on, and whether it'll use character styles from an existing part of the franchise, such as the animated series and comics, or new styles created especially for the game.
Considered one of the most popular kids' television programs of the 1980s,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a classic, global property created in 1984 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It first debuted as a successful comic book series and then became a hit animated TV show, a live-action television series and later spawned four blockbuster theatrical releases. The property has also translated into a significant consumer products business - with toys apparel, home goods, video games, DVDs and more--that has generated billions of dollars at retail.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a top selling action figure and the franchise is a previous recipient of the Toy Industry Association's top honor for Property of the Year at the TOTY Awards.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles follows four mutant turtles—Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo—trained in the art of ninjutsu by their mutant rat sensei, Master Splinter, who teaches the turtles to battle evil from the New York City sewers.
Nickelodeon acquired the
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 2009 and launched a CG-animated
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series which re-energized these iconic characters of this wildly popular franchise in 2012. Nickelodeon followed up the CG-animated series, which ran for four seasons, with
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which premiered in 2018. The action-comedy series follows the band of brothers as they discover new powers and encounter a mystical world they never knew existed beneath the streets of New York City. Currently in its second season,
Rise of the TMNT airs globally across Nickelodeon's channels and branded blocks in 170+ countries and territories.
Rise of the TMNT is co-executive produced by Andy Suriano (character designer,
Samurai Jack) and Ant Ward (supervising producer,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) at Nickelodeon in Burbank, California.
Kongregate is a leading US-based developer and publisher of browser, mobile, PC and console games in multiple genres, including strategy, action, adventure (RPG) and sports. Founded in 2006, Kongregate has published over 100,000 titles on its own web platform and has reached a milestone of 100 million mobile downloads. After successful expansion to Steam and mobile, Kongregate continues the momentum by investing in console game development in the bid to offer multi-platform game experiences.
Kongregate’s free-to-play games have strong Google Play and App Store featuring and include hits like
The Trail,
Animation Throwdown and
BattleHand. In 2017 Kongregate launched its first Xbox One title,
GRIDD: Retroenhanced, also available on Steam. The company's most downloaded apps include
AdVenture Capitalist,
Pocket Politics, and
Star Trek Trexels.
Modern Times Group's Viaplay
previously partnered with Nickelodeon in October 2014, which gave Viaplay the exclusive stand-alone video on demand (VOD) rights to a raft of Nickelodeon programming in the Nordic region until 2020.
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Originally published: Friday, February 7, 2020 at 20:17 GMT.
Additional source: Wikipedia.
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