Wonacott Communications

Continued Success for Legacy Audio Company EPOS

For almost 75 years, the Sennheiser brand has become synonymous with high-end consumer audio equipment. Recently, the co-branded EPOS | SENNHEISER de-merged into a new gaming audio company. For the past several months, we’ve had the amazing opportunity to work with the brand in a new space for the company – video game audio. In […]

Assetto Corsa Competizione Races Towards the Finish Line with Summer Livestream

Professional racing leagues around the world have screeched to a stop due to COVID-19 and are only just now beginning to experiment with how to return. With competitors and their rabid fans left in the dust, real world racers from F1 to NASCAR turned their heads away from the road, fixating instead on at-home screens […]

Lasting Effects of COVID-19 on Industry Events and Trade Shows

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtually every keystone summer gaming event was cancelled or drastically reimagined. The handshaking and in-person business-making of GDC are now relics of the past. The flash and panache of E3 is also gone, yet so are the enormous budgets. There are upsides and downsides to the changed world […]

Celebrating Two Years of Worldwide PR Success with PUBG MOBILE

Earlier this month, we helped our partners at Tencent Games celebrate the second anniversary of PUBG MOBILE. Having supported PUBG MOBILE from its beta period, through launch and to its second anniversary, it’s been awesome to be a part of the most popular mobile game in the world, especially because a portion of our office […]

Playing the tune of emcee and company rep in Nash-Vegas for GameStop 2019 GME Conference

When our partners at U&I Entertainment, a major retail distributor for videogames, asked us to host their Training Room at GameStop’s 2019 GME Conference in Nashville, Tenn. we acknowledged it was an odd request of their PR team. Despite the task being outside our typical M.O., we knew experience in distilling and communicating key messages, […]

Celebrating 16 Years of Exploring Entropia Universe’s Massive Worlds

In 2003 while most of us were jamming out to 50 Cent and The Black-Eyed Peas, the developers of Entropia Universe were launching what would become one of the longest-standing multiplayer games in the world. Earlier this month, we helped our partners at MindArk celebrate the multi-world massively multiplayer (MMO) game’s 16-year anniversary. This impressive […]

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 […]

Buying Into The Hype – Taking Nexon America’s Hyper Universe From Early Access To Global Launch

When the Wonacott team first learned about Hyper Universe, we immediately knew it possessed some serious potential. This action-packed side-scrolling MOBA/brawler hybrid, developed by Nexon America and Cwavesoft, was certainly unique enough to find its own niche in the world of PC gaming. One would think that an experience such as Hyper Universe, with its […]

Transcendent PR for 505 Games’ Emotionally-Gripping Last Day of June

Situation Overview The Wonacott team was tasked to plan, organize and execute a comprehensive media outreach campaign for 505 Games’ Last Day of June, the poignant, painterly and beautiful tale of love and loss. Last Day of June’s somber story, unique gameplay and limited outreach window posed interesting challenges, as we needed to highlight the […]

Major Influencer Relations Abound at PAX South for 505 Games and Wonacott

Shows including PAX South make for interesting challenges in the PR world. Traditional media tend to avoid it due its smaller size and meager attractiveness for those huge and juicy announcements. Knowing this ahead of time however, meant that Wonacott and 505 Games were able to capitalize on the event’s quirks by shifting our focus […]