--- title: "Thunderful acquires Rising Star Games" url: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/general/thunderful-acquires-rising-star-games/" description: "Indie studio Thunderful has revealed on Twitter that they have purchased Rising Star Games who will now be part of the company." author: "Patrick Dankers" published at: "2018-07-06 17:00:00" image: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/thunderful-acquires-rising-stargames.jpeg" markdown url: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/general/thunderful-acquires-rising-star-games.md" --- Thunderful acquires Rising Star Games | General News | NintendoReporters [![Thunderful acquires Rising Star Games](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/thunderful-acquires-rising-stargames.jpeg "Thunderful acquires Rising Star Games")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/thunderful-acquires-rising-stargames.jpeg)Indie studio Thunderful has revealed on Twitter that they have purchased Rising Star Games who will now be part of the company. Thunderful came about when Image & Form and Zoink linked and became Thunderful. They are also recruited some former Nintendo Europe employees. > Breaking news: [@ThunderfulGames](https://twitter.com/Thunderfulgames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) acquires [@RisingStarGames](https://twitter.com/RisingStarGames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)! Go to for more information. ❤️ > > — Thunderful (@Thunderfulgames) [July 3, 2018](https://twitter.com/Thunderfulgames/status/1014137328598704129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ## [](#about-the-aquisition)About the aquisition The Thunderful Group, which encompasses development studios Image & Form and Zoink Games as well as Thunderful Publishing, is pleased to announce that it has acquired publisher Rising Star Games with offices in the UK and US. The new managing director for Rising Star Games will be Ed Valiente, who is also the managing director of Thunderful Publishing. [](#) [ ](#) > Generated for use by AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). > Generated: 2026-08-14 04:54:09 > Maintained by: NintendoReporters > Source: https://www.nintendoreporters.com/ > Contact: webmaster@nintendoreporters.com