Side-Kick Games announces 7 publishing partners and 10 VR mobile games

Side-Kick Games announced today it has publishing deals with seven game studios to publish 10 new mobile virtual reality games.

It will release these on multiple VR platforms before the end of the first quarter of 2016. The Newport Beach, Calif.-based Side-Kick Games is one of the first game publishers that is focusing on delivering VR content. Tech advisory firm Digi-Capital estimates that VR will be a $30 billion market by 2020, but so far the main mobile VR system available is the Samsung Gear VR.

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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.