Steve Tinkler rose to prominence in the industry as the chief financial strategist of Epic before moving to Mediatonic, where he grew a small game from nothing called Fall Guys. Tinkler therefore changes creamery, but not cap or geographical area, since he will remain in the perfidious Albion. “FuturLab projects are incredibly exciting.“, comments Tinkler.”I am delighted to be working with James Marsden, Kirsty Regden, Chris Mehers and the rest of the team to support the next phase of our growth.” Chris Mehers, Director of Operations, adds that “recruiting someone of Steve’s caliber, with his experience, shows that we are a rapidly growing self-funded studio and shows our ambition for the years to come.“
More than a soap bubble
While many studios would be more than satisfied with 7 million players, the lucky number is far from enough for FuturLab, which is cooking up a full year of updates for PowerWash Simulator. Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy 7 maps have already appeared at the beginning of the year, the fruit of the publishing partnership with Square Enix. New free cards specific to the game universe have recently been added under the moniker of Muckingham Files. In the future, a mix of paid DLCs and free updates will fuel our kärcher madness. A physical version on Xbox, PlayStation and Switch is also in the cards.
Before the monster success of PowerWash Simulator, FuturLab made a name for itself with the solid shoot ’em up Velocity 2X before branching out into racing (Tiny Trax), strategy (Mini-Mech Mayhem) and licensed games (Peaky Blinders: Mastermind). Very clever will be the one who will predict their next change of direction.