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Piggyback Interactive is a game guide publisher known for creating official, comprehensive guides in collaboration with major game studios.

Last updated September 2, 2026

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Overview

Piggyback Interactive is a game guide publisher that started in 1999 with a guide to Metal Gear Solid. They publish detailed, all-inclusive guides for select games, working closely with game studios to ensure completeness and simultaneous release with the game. Their guides are available in multiple languages and across continents.

History

Piggyback Interactive started in 1999 with the 148-page guide to Metal Gear Solid. Twenty-four years later, they published the 496-page guides to Tears of the Kingdom in five languages and across four continents. They select one game every year or so and invest all resources into creating the exclusive, complete official guide to that title. They work hand-in-hand with the best game studios in the world, ensuring guides are 100% complete and released simultaneously with the game.

Products and positioning

  • Metroid Prime 1–3: A Visual Retrospective

    An art book developed in collaboration with Nintendo and Retro Studios, showcasing concept drawings, sketches, and illustrations from Metroid Prime games.

  • Assassin's Creed Shadows guide

    An authoritative, all-encompassing guide created after months of intensive collaboration with Ubisoft.

  • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom guide

    An authoritative, all-encompassing guide created in close collaboration with Nintendo.

  • Cyberpunk 2077 guide

    A guide for the vast open-ended game Cyberpunk 2077.

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