February 21, 2023 - Modern Wolf, the indie games publishing label owned by Paul Wedgwood’s Supernova Capital, announced today that publishing veteran Phil Elliott has been named the company’s new CEO, and will start in March.
Elliott joins Modern Wolf as CEO following a 10-year stint at Square Enix, most notably as the Director of the publisher’s indie publishing arm, Square Enix Collective (PowerWash Simulator, Circuit Superstars, The Turing Test).
Elliott started out working in radio and transitioned into journalism while at BBC Radio 5Live. From there a step into specialist media followed, with GameSpot UK and GamesIndustry.biz, before moving to Square Enix in 2011 as Head of Community. He founded indie publishing label Square Enix Collective a couple of years later, and helped build it into a thriving part of the wider business, before moving on to lead Modern Wolf.
Elliott’s appointment to CEO of Modern Wolf comes at an exciting and pivotal time for the company. Fresh off the back of commercial hit ZERO Sievert, which has generated over $3 million in revenue since its early access release just four months ago (November 2022), Elliott will look to grow the Modern Wolf team and set up the label for further success ahead of the game’s 1.0 release in Q4 2023.
“Having watched closely from afar, it’s clear that Modern Wolf is at an exciting and crucial juncture in its journey as a publisher,” said Elliott, looking ahead to his appointment in March. “I’m hugely excited to be coming onboard at a time when there’s a lot of momentum, and working with the team to nurture the existing portfolio, grow the team, and take the Modern Wolf label to lofty new heights.”
Paul Wedgewood, Founder of Supernova Capital, said, “Modern Wolf is a pivotal part of Supernova’s portfolio and ambitions in game publishing. Phil brings with him the reputation and experience to supercharge Modern Wolf’s output in the indie development space.”
Modern Wolf, founded in 2019, is a publisher of forever games; deep, intricate and soulful games that aim to be a permanent fixture of a player’s game library.
2023 continues the publisher’s run of memorable releases with Afterschool Studio’s spiritual sci-fi and grand tactics title Cantata, Blue Bottle Games’ complex spaceship-sim Ostranauts, and CABO Studio’s post apocalyptic extraction shooter ZERO Sievert.
About Modern Wolf
Modern Wolf is an independent videogame publisher that focus on highly replayable, deep, soulful, strategic, and tactical games that spans genres, art styles, and diverse development teams focused on creating forever games that players can master.
For more information please visit https://modernwolf.net/
About Supernova Capital
Supernova Capital is a private equity firm focused on realizing the untapped potential of independent game development studios and their IPs across the globe since 2017. Its co- founders Paul Wedgwood, Mark Morris and Richard Jolly were the key forces behind award-winning London-based studio, Splash Damage which they exited in 2016 the trio has dozens of #1 hit games to their names and hundreds of awards and nominations. As such, Supernova draws upon decades of experience and industry credibility in the ‘AAA’ game development space and beyond. Supernova seeks to create a network of talented, independent creators, offering them the capital and high level support necessary to establish long-term stability in an unpredictable industry, all while allowing them to maintain their creative freedom and independence.
www.novacap.uk
About CABO Studio
CABO Studio was founded by Luca Carbonera in Italy in 2020. Currently working on his first title, the highly successful and popular ZERO Sievert, CABO Studio set out with the goal of making a PvE top-down extraction shooter that challenges players to scavenge for survival in a tight and tense procedurally-generated world. ZERO Sievert is currently in early access on Steam.
About Afterschool Studio
Afterschool is a videogame development studio co-founded by Kyle and Rebecca Kukshtel in New York dedicated to creating art-forward, systems-driven games that allow for expressive player experiences. The studio’s latest game is Cantata, is a turn-based sci-fi strategy game currently in early access on Steam.
About Blue Bottle Games
Founded back in 2012 in Seattle, Blue Bottle Games is headed by ex-BioWare developer Dan Fedor with a focus on developing deep, pen and paper role-playing and strategy games and wants to bring them in to the 21st Century on PC Steam. With a focus on deep, intricate worlds, systems and characters, Blue Bottle Games had their first success with the hugely popular game NEO Scavenger, which they’ve since followed up with the acclaimed Ostranauts now in early access on Steam.
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