Chicago Gold
Roaring-Twenties gangster imagery gives the game a cinematic period setting and became one of PearFiction’s key introductions to a wider real-money audience.
PearFiction Studios is a Montreal game developer with roots in casual mobile entertainment rather than traditional casino manufacturing. Founded in 2014, the team first worked on social and free-to-play products before moving into real-money gaming, a path that helps explain the studio’s strong emphasis on characters, humor and portrait-friendly storytelling. PearFiction later entered the Microgaming ecosystem and now distributes exclusively through Games Global. Its catalogue includes gangsters, wrestlers, volcano adventures and zombie-comedy concepts, giving the studio one of the more personality-driven portfolios in the Games Global network.
Story-rich, humorous and character-led slots with mobile-first presentation and a casual-game design influence.
A Montreal creative team, a background in social gaming and distinctive characters such as Gustavo and the Goons.
Chicago Gold, Gustavo El Luchador, Goons Gone Wild, Volted Up: Wild Surge
Peter & Sons, Just For The Win, Nailed It! Games, Massive Studios
Roaring-Twenties gangster imagery gives the game a cinematic period setting and became one of PearFiction’s key introductions to a wider real-money audience.
A colorful masked wrestler leads an exuberant character slot that captures the studio’s preference for humor, animation and larger-than-life personalities.
Comic criminals and chaotic behavior turn the underworld into slapstick entertainment rather than a serious crime theme.
Electricity and energy effects drive the visual identity while Wild Surge branding makes the mechanic feel integrated with the game’s charged atmosphere.
PearFiction Studios was founded in Montreal in 2014 and initially developed casual mobile entertainment. In 2015 it launched PowerUp Slots as a social casino product, giving the team direct experience with reel games before moving further into real-money gaming. Partnerships with Leander, RNG Foundry and the former Microgaming network followed, and Chicago Gold became an important early release on Microgaming’s platform in 2021. After the content network transitioned, PearFiction became an exclusive Games Global studio while continuing to handle concept, art, math, animation and audio internally.
PearFiction’s casual-game roots show up in the way characters and scenes carry the experience. The studio often designs for portrait screens, uses humor in animation and sound, and makes bonus events feel like part of the story rather than a detached mathematical interruption. Because the team develops multiple creative disciplines in-house, games can maintain a consistent tone from artwork through music and feature presentation. The provider also participates in Games Global mechanic and jackpot ecosystems when appropriate, but its strongest signature remains character-driven entertainment.
The Montreal team worked in casual mobile gaming and launched a social casino product, PowerUp Slots, before expanding more deeply into real-money iGaming.
A named wrestler, comic personality and bold animation make the character central to the game instead of using a generic symbol theme.
It was an important early real-money release on the Microgaming platform and helped introduce the studio’s work to a much wider operator network.
No. The studio has emphasized in-house work across concepting, mathematics, art, design, animation and music, helping each game maintain one creative direction.