Wonacott Communications

Wonacott Heads Back to School with New Partner, USC Games

It’s a match made in videogame heaven for Wonacott and USC Games. We’re pairing our decades of industry knowledge and passion with USC Games’ leading university program for interactive entertainment education to build a stellar PR campaign that highlights USC Games as the preeminent destination for ongoing interactive education. We’re currently focusing on getting the […]

Taming the Beast with Dragon Marked for Death on Nintendo Switch

Our first successful campaign with publisher Nighthawk Interactive and well-known Japanese developer Inti Creates goes back to 2017 when we helped amp up the Nintendo Switch retail release of Azure Striker Gunvolt: Striker Pack. Naturally, we were stoked to partner up again for the retail release of the 2D action side-scroller, Dragon Marked for Death. […]

Wonacott Helps Dark Slope Emerge from Stealth and Enter the World of LBE VR

Emerging from stealth is a massive step for any company. After months or even years of planning a rollout, the anxieties of finally revealing your team’s behind-the-scenes work can be grueling. For Toronto-based VR and AR developer Dark Slope, helping them pull back the curtain took careful planning and consideration, but ultimately resulted in well-deserved […]

Polyarc’s VR Masterpiece Moss Nominated at The Game Awards

The Game Awards, essentially the Oscars for videogames, is airing this Thursday and we’re incredibly proud to see our friends at Polyarc strike gold with Moss and be nominated for “Best VR/AR Game” and “Best Debut Indie Game!” After an extensive pre-release campaign in 2017, we helped Polyarc launch Moss back in February of this […]

Queued-up with 1047 Games for Portal-Based Combat in Splitgate: Arena Warfare

If hearing “MULTIKILL,” “BOOM HEADSHOT” and “KILLIMANJARO” never gets old, you’re in for a treat. It’s no secret many of the team at Wonacott are first-person shooter (FPS) aficionados – from Call of Duty and Counter-Strike to Battlefield and Halo, we’d thought we’d seen it all. That is, until 1047 Games took notice of our […]

PUBG MOBILE Wins ‘Mobile Game of the Year’ at Golden Joystick Awards 2018

Congratulations to our partners at Tencent Games and Lightspeed & Quantum for bringing home the Mobile Game of the Year award at the 2018 Golden Joystick Awards. Driven entirely by fan voting, this win is a testament to the great community that we’ve helped foster and develop around the game. The internal teams at Tencent […]

Press and Influencers Open Their Eyes for VR Thriller Blind

Developers are starting to find their niche in virtual reality, creating progressively unique experiences tailored for the platform. Working on VR experiences that are designed to make the most of the medium is always a treat, so we couldn’t wait to work with publisher Fellow Traveller on Blind, a hair-raising VR game that plays with […]

Going Long for Mutant Football League: Dynasty Edition at E3 2018

Sports games aren’t everyone’s cup of Gatorade, so we needed to consider our approach when booking E3 preview appointments for brutal, NFL parody arcade football game, Mutant Football League: Dynasty Edition. Our core tactic was to identify unique aspects of the game that would appeal to various media verticals. For instance, the new Dynasty Edition […]

Getting Schwifty with Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality Retail Mania

If you haven’t heard of the pop culture TV show phenomenon Rick and Morty, you probably haven’t been reading anything online for the past few years. We were stoked to work on the PlayStation VR (PS VR) adaptation of this new cult-classic franchise with Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Since the game already launched on […]

Locked and Loaded for Hardcore RPG Shooter, Immortal: Unchained, PC Alpha

“It’s like Dark Souls, but with guns…” After recently formed Swedish studio Toadman Interactive revealed its hardcore action RPG game Immortal: Unchained in the summer of 2017, they enlisted us to introduce it to Western media at PAX West. Despite the hang-ups gaming media tend to have for new franchises, we secured impressions from major […]