LOS ANGELES & BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Big Huge Games, the Maryland-based game development studio founded by 23-year industry veteran Brian Reynolds and formerly known as SecretNewCo, in partnership with Nexon have revealed the studio’s debut mobile title, DomiNations. With a focus on creating mobile strategy games, Big Huge Games’ DomiNations is an epic strategic combat game of advancement, exploration and conquest being developed for iPhone and iPad and Android mobile devices.
DomiNations, an innovative free-to-play mobile strategy game that allows players to lead the world’s greatest civilizations from the Stone Age to the Space Age, will be published by Nexon’s mobile gaming group, Nexon M. In DomiNations, players can explore, advance and grow their civilizations while conquering the world through single-player campaign and cooperative gameplay modes.
“Brian and the team at Big Huge Games have built a truly epic new game with DomiNations. Strategy game fans and mobile gamers are going to love the innovation, depth, and player choice DomiNations gives each user,” said John Robinson, general manager, Nexon M.
Big Huge Games was initially formed in 2013 following founder and CEO Brian Reynolds’ departure from Zynga, where he served as the company’s chief game designer, responsible for creating innovative social mechanics for popular titles including FrontierVille and CityVille 2. Prior to Zynga, Reynolds led the founding of the first incarnation of Big Huge Games in 2000, where he and his team created award-winning titles Rise of Nations and Rise of Legends prior to the studio closing in 2012. Reynolds was also a founder of Firaxis Games, along with Sid Meier and Jeff Briggs. He rose to prominence as the lead designer and lead engineer on Civilization II, his first multi-million selling title, and led the creation of renowned games such as Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri.
“We’re honored to continue the legacy of Big Huge Games, which we founded on the concept of making fun, beautiful and innovative gameplay experiences on mobile devices,” said Brian Reynolds, chief executive officer, Big Huge Games. “Nexon is lending us its proven free-to-play expertise in pursuit of that goal, and we can’t wait to show players what we’ve created together.”
DomiNations will launch on iOS and Android mobile devices next year. To register to receive updates for DomiNations and to check out the latest trailer visit: www.dominations.com.
To learn more about Big Huge Games, please visit www.bighugegames.com.
About Big Huge Games
Big Huge Games specializes in mobile strategy games. The studio was founded in 2013 by 23-year game industry collaborators Brian Reynolds and Tim Train, along with several other long-time veterans, and hopes to keep the flame alive of the original Big Huge Games which ran from 2000 to 2012. We build prototypes and improve them constantly until we love playing them ourselves – we know you won’t love our game until we love it. Big Huge Games is represented by Ophir Lupu of United Talent Agency.
About NEXON M
Nexon M is the mobile publishing arm of Nexon Group, a pioneer of interactive entertainment software and the world’s leader in free-to-play online games. Counting Big Huge Games, Shiver Entertainment, Ndoors, and Turbo Studios among its development partners, Nexon M’s goal is to support the world’s best mobile talent in making fun and unique games.
