Aonic announced that it has formed Megabit, a new publishing arm created to support the company’s 1st and 3rd party studios. Built from the ground up, Megabit will provide world-class publishing services to Aonic’s vast portfolio of development studios, including Warren Spector’s Otherside Entertainment, Milkytea, Tiny Roar, BKOM, and more. Benjie Clarke has assembled a top team from some of the industry’s most renowned and recognizable companies. Megabit will serve as an extension of Aonic’s commitment to filling a gap in the industry with a truly collaborative home for independent development studios.
“At Aonic, we are dedicated to helping our studios grow in every way possible, and in our mission to building a supportive and collaborative group for studios, it was a natural next step for us to build a publishing arm – one that works in synergy with our studios to bring their works of art to market, “said Paul Schempp CEO of Aonic. “Our approach to publishing offers our partners the skills and tools they need without infringing on their creativity, resulting in a studio and publisher partnership that works hand-in-hand to bring only the best games to the market.”
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Led by industry veterans, the growing publishing team at Megabit has worked on some of the world’s biggest franchises, such as FIFA, Payday, and Tomb Raider, in addition to long-running live service games such as RuneScape, Elite, and CSR Racing. Megabit has 4 games scheduled to launch in the next 18 months and plans to have 10 games by the end of 2026. Key titles under Megabit currently in development include Thick as Thieves from Otherside Entertainment, cozy open-world adventure Lou’s Lagoon from Tiny Roar, and more.
Aonic has seen tremendous growth over the past years, generating nearly €100m in revenue in 2023 and with 600 employees across 7 games studios, 2 Adtech Platforms, and now 1 publisher around Europe and North America. In 2023, Aonic acquired Otherside Entertainment, led by Warren Spector and Paul Neurath (Deus Ex, Thief, Ultima), nDreams, the world’s biggest VR game developer and publisher, and up-and-coming Hamburg cozy games developer Tiny Roar. Aonic will also focus on bringing on board 3rd party games to publish in the near future.
More will be revealed at a later date. The games previewed have not yet been rated by the ESRB.
