u/RoamerMonkey

Please read the documents in the below sources section for the full, original details. I needed to repost this because I accidentally showed my personal info in one of the screenshots.

A few days ago (May 11, 2026), the HOPA game developer GrandMA Studios has officially filed a lawsuit against BFG Entertainment (Big Fish Games' new owners) for allegedly illegally terminating their royalties, contracts, and distribution and licensing rights, threatening to remove GrandMA's games from online and mobile stores if GrandMA continued distributing their games, and having "gross negligence" in months-late communication to outdated or non-existent addresses, and less detailed royalty reports that made "independent verification mathematically impossible". I attached screenshots of a few excerpts detailing this.

GrandMA is represented by Mark P. Walters, a lawyer from the intellectual property law firm Lowe Graham Jones based in Seattle, Washington (like Big Fish Games was before BFG Entertainment bought it). A trial is scheduled by next year, May 17, 2027. An extra note: GrandMA is stated to be incorporated in the Republic of Cyprus. While the documents don't explicitly mention this, I believe GrandMA at some recent point moved from Ukraine to Cyprus due to the Ukraine war (similar to Domini Games), which is verified by GrandMA's website's terms and conditions.

It is currently unknown if and how will the eventual verdict of this case will decide GrandMA and Big Fish's future in the HOPA game industry; GrandMA's layoffs seem to be irreversible regardless, but who knows.

Sources:

• Law360's article. Requires signing up for an account with a non-free email domain to fully view; I used my university email. The Google Drive links to a PDF version of the article is here, and to the attached complaint by GrandMA's lawyer is here (this is a public record, so it is legal to share).
• The official government King County Superior Court website in Washington. Search up the civil case with the case number 26-2-15547-0, and you'll see the case "GRANDMA STUDIOS LIMITED VS BFG ENTERTAINMENT INC". Viewing basic details is free; viewing other court documents requires signing up for an account and paying $8, which I opted to not do.

Not my game at all, but just wanted to share this in case this is someone else's cup of tea.

Some of you may remember that Little Things first released on Big Fish Games all the way back in 2009. It was then ported to and remains on the App Store and Google Play. There's also a 2013 sequel called Little Things Forever also on the App Store and Google Play.

As very recently as early April this year, the developer has decided to release a remastered version of Little Things. It is available as a a new release on Steam (just the first game) and an update to the mobile versions and the Itch.io version (includes the second game that's also remastered).

Check it out if you're interested!