Adult Swim bought Big Pixel Studios, maker of Pocket Mortys.
Adult Swim bought Big Pixel Studios, maker of Pocket Mortys.
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Adult Swim acquires Pocket Mortys developer Big Pixel Studios

Turner’s Adult Swim announced today the acquisition of United Kingdom game developer Big Pixel Studios for an undisclosed price. The acquisition is part of the entertainment network’s increased investment in gaming and overall commitment to creating more multiplatform content with Adult Swim’s own popular intellectual property.

Along with other mobile titles for the network, Big Pixel developed the popular game Pocket Mortys based on characters from Adult Swim’s hit animated series Rick and Morty, the No. 1 comedy across all of television in 2017, Adult Swim said. Rick and Morty was recently picked up for an additional 70 episodes, and Big Pixel is continuing to add more elements to Pocket Mortys for fans to explore.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.