Blacknut

Blacknut

https://www.blacknut.com/en-us
https://www.linkedin.com/company/blacknut-gaming/

Blacknut, a privately owned company headquartered in France, was founded in 2016 and employs approximately 40 individuals. The company operates as a cloud gaming service, providing subscribers with unlimited access to a catalog of over 500 video games through its "click and play" platform. This platform allows users to stream games instantly across various devices, including computers, smartphones, and smart TVs, eliminating the need for downloads. The service supports up to five separate player profiles per account, offering optional parental controls, and facilitates local multiplayer experiences with up to four controllers.

Revenue

Founded

2016

Headcount

33

Headquarters

France

Primary Segment

Consumer gaming

Ownership

Privately Owned

Deployments

6

News Summary:

Blacknut is celebrating its 10-year anniversary in 2026, marking a decade of innovation, growth, and leadership in cloud gaming. Previously, on July 7, Blacknut partnered with Acclaim to add four titles—The Prisoning: Fletcher’s Quest, Katanaut, GRIDbeat!, and Basketball Classics—to its cloud gaming catalog, enhancing the global accessibility of Acclaim's diverse lineup. Earlier, on June 6, the company announced the addition of "Monstro Maestro," a 2D action-adventure game developed by students from France's Game Academy, to its platform. This followed the April 28 introduction of Blacknut's cloud gaming service to specific television models utilizing the Whale TV independent operating system, allowing viewers with Whale OS 3 or Whale OS 10 to access Blacknut's catalog of over 1,000 games in more than 65 countries across MENA, APAC, LATAM, and North America.

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Blacknut's revenues were less than $25M in 2024. All the revenue comes from video games.

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Jul

8th

2026

00:53

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Blacknut Celebrates 10 Years of Cloud Gaming Innovation

Blacknut celebrates its 10-year anniversary in 2026, marking a decade of innovation, growth, and leadership in the evolution of cloud gaming. The milestone also celebrates the people behind the company whose passion, expertise, and relentless drive to innovate have supported Blacknut's journey over the past decade.

Jul

7th

2026

04:36

New Offerings, Partnerships and Alliances, B2B Tag

Blacknut and Acclaim Announce New Multi

Blacknut : Blacknut and Acclaim today announce a new partnership bringing four titles to Blacknut’s cloud gaming catalog: The Prisoning: Fletcher’s Quest, Katanaut, GRIDbeat!, and Basketball Classics. "Great games deserve to be played everywhere. Partnering with Blacknut allows us to bring our diverse lineup of Acclaim titles to players around the world with the accessibility and convenience that cloud gaming provides.

Jun

6th

2026

00:27

New Offerings, Partnerships and Alliances, B2B Tag

Monstro Maestro, a student-made musical adventure from Game Academy, joins Blacknut

Blacknut is pleased to announce the arrival of Monstro Maestro, a creative and original 2D action-adventure game developed by students from Game Academy, now available on the platform. Game Academy is a French higher education school dedicated to training the next generation of video game professionals.

Apr

28th

2026

07:14

New Offerings, Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Whale TV introduces Blacknut gaming

Global cloud gaming service Blacknut has announced its introduction to certain models of television set using the Whale TV independent operating system. It said viewers using Whale OS 3 or Whale OS 10 can access Blacknut's catalogue of over 1,000 games. The all-in-one subscription streaming service is now available in more than 65 countries in MENA, APAC, LATAM and North America, with more regions to come.

Apr

23rd

2026

18:30

New Offerings, Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Select Activision and Blizzard games now streamable on Blacknut service

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Apr

23rd

2026

10:30

New Offerings, Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Blacknut Levels Up: Select Activision Publishing and Blizzard Ent

Blacknut : Press release - Paris, April 23, 17H00 CET Blacknut, the world’s leading pure‑player cloud gaming platform, is thrilled to bring Activision Publishing & Blizzard Entertainment favorites—including Diablo® III, Warcraft® I: Remastered, Prototype 2, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II, Crash Bandicoot® N.

Apr

23rd

2026

00:38

New Offerings, B2B Tag

Blacknut Levels Up: Select Activision Publishing and Blizzard Entertainment Games Now Streamable on Blacknut

Blacknut, the world’s leading pure‑player cloud gaming platform, is thrilled to bring Activision Publishing & Blizzard Entertainment favorites—including Diablo® III, Warcraft® I: Remastered, Prototype 2, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II, Crash Bandicoot® N. Sane Trilogy, Spyro® Reignited Trilogy, and more—to its cloud streaming service through the Ubisoft+ Premium pass.

Apr

22nd

2026

18:30

Blacknut Levels Up: Select Activision Publishing and Blizzard Entertainment Games Now Streamable on Blacknut

Paris, France, April 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blacknut, the world’s leading pure‑player cloud gaming platform, is thrilled to bring Activision Publishing & Blizzard Entertainment favorites—including Diablo® III, Warcraft® I: Remastered, Prototype 2, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II, Crash Bandicoot® N.

Apr

2nd

2026

05:24

Partnerships and Alliances

Blacknut and ESDigital Games Partner to Bring a Diverse Portfolio

Blacknut : Blacknut, the leading cloud gaming service offering 1,000+ premium games playable instantly across compatible devices, announces a new partnership with ESDigital Games, a global publisher known for its growing catalog of distinctive, high-quality titles across genres.

Mar

12th

2026

03:57

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Blacknut highlights TV gaming growth opportunities at GDC – SEENIT

Cloud gaming specialists Blacknut will be using this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) to demonstrate how its Smart TV-first distribution strategy can unlock new audiences. Blacknut’s service is available on more than 100 million Smart TVs across 65 countries thanks to tie-ups and partnerships with major brands and platforms including Tizen, webOS, Android TV, Google TV, Fire TV, Titan OS, and VIDAA.

Mar

9th

2026

18:30

Partnerships and Alliances, B2B Tag

A ‘Mindful’ Move: Blacknut Welcomes Mindscape Games to Cloud Gaming Platform

Blacknut announces a new publishing partnership with Mindscape, bringing a selection of the publisher’s popular and upcoming titles to the Blacknut cloud gaming platform. Through this collaboration, players will be able to discover and instantly play a selection of Mindscape games across supported devices (and seamlessly switch between them), expanding Blacknut’s growing catalog of premium titles accessible without downloads or dedicated gaming hardware while bringing Mindscape to the forefront of cloud gaming.

Mar

6th

2026

06:15

Partnerships and Alliances, Artificial Intelligence

Radian Arc, VNPT and Blacknut Launch GPU Infrastructure in Vietnam, Enabling Cloud Gaming and AI Services

BARCELONA, SPAIN & PERTH, AUSTRALIA & PARIS & HANO--(Business Wire / Korea Newswire)--Radian Arc, part of inferX, Submer’s AI cloud and GPU infrastructure platform has partnered with VNPT, and COMIT, to launch Cloud Gaming powered by Radian Arc’s GPU Edge Platform and Blacknut’s global cloud gaming service.

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