Another press release:

Ironstone Partners and Winning Moves today announced a new licensing deal which grants exclusive Worldwide Video Game Rights to enable Ironstone to bring the highly successful Top Trumps brand to the video gaming market.

Top Trumps is a card-based game which gained popularity in the 1970 and 80’s and combines luck, strategy and subject knowledge in a game-concept that has hooked children for several generations. Packs start from £2.98 retail and sales in the UK hit £10 Million each year. The brand has enjoyed many years of success with its strong licensing programme which includes brands such as Marvel, Star Wars, Harry Potter and recently, Doctor Who.

Ironstone will develop games for the Sony’s PlayStation®2 (PS2), Nintendo DS™ and PC gaming platforms and will also work with Winning Moves to create proprietary Top Trumps characters.

“We are tremendously excited to be working with a brand with such fantastic heritage as Top Trumps”, commented Ironstone’s Managing Director, Paul Gouge, “our track record working with high-value concepts in the gaming space and our award winning studio Rockpool Games, will ensure a great success for Winning moves”.

Winning Moves, Head of Interactive, James Rankin added, “We’re delighted with how quickly Ironstone have understood our brand values and implemented them in such high quality products. We’re looking-forward to a long and successful relationship bringing many more video gaming products to market”.

For more information see: www.peppermintm.co.uk