Mike Rose Joins Ripstone Games as Company Hits 10 Million Games Sold

Liverpool-based Ripstone Games have now reached an important milestone of games sold. The studio have racked up over 10 million units, including their popular game Stick it to The Man!, and Ironcast.  

The publisher are expanding, hiring Mike Rose, formerly from tinyBuild and Gamasutra. This is the first step in a big publishing push from the company over the coming months. 

Publishing house Ripstone Games, best known for titles like Stick It To The Man!, Knytt Underground, Ironcast, and the Pure series, is about to become a name you hear a whole lot more.

After five successful years, the company is looking to boost its publishing presence, and sign a new raft of titles from third-party development teams for 2017 and onwards, bringing Mike onboard to help facilitate this offensive.

"We've already had plenty of success publishing third-party titles on console, with millions of units sold over the last five years," said Ripstone Head of Marketing & PR Michelle Turner. "Now we're really looking to explode over the next year. Hiring Mike will no doubt help us achieve that, and we're super excited to hunt for more great titles and developers to bring into the Ripstone family."

 Ripstone currently has a number of titles in progress, including co-development with Ndemic Creations on the PlayStation 4 release of popular mobile and PC strategy game Plague Inc., and developing the long-awaited Xbox One and Steam versions of Pure Chess in-house.