Today, Square Enix has announced that it will cease to use the recently acquired Eidos brand for publishing. In the United States, all current and future publishing, marketing and distribution responsibilities have officially been transferred to Square Enix America. For European territories, a new corporate entity will be created, Square Enix Europe. Similarly to the […]
After a “big announcement” tease via twitter, mega publisher LucasArts announced today that they have licensed Valve’s PC digital distribution hub the rights to publish a bunch of classic titles from the LucasArts library, available digitally for the first time. The first batch will arrive today, as a bundle of 10 titles (see below.) LucasArts […]
GOG.com (stands for “Good Old Games”), digital distributor of DRM-free download-titles, has announced its deal with Aaron Conners to distribute his co-created series of Tex Murphy adventure games. The franchise, which includes games like Mean Streets, Martian Memorandum, Under a Killing Moon, The Pandora Directive, and Tex Murphy: Overseer, features a post-WWIII man fancying himself […]
At this past week’s E3 convention in Los Angeles, representatives from Guiness World Records were on hand to deliver awards to publishers for the upcoming 2010 edition of their “Gamer’s Edition” Record book line. The company presented the honor of “Best Selling Video Game” to Shigeru Miyamoto and his Wii Sports, Major Nelson and Mark […]