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 […]
In an interview with Gamasutra.com, EA officer Frank Gibeau has stated that despite the disappointing sales of their new IP’s last year, the company is aiming to release around 9 IPs over the next three years. EA’s most important IPs last year were Dead Space and Mirrors Edge, neither of which managed to break far […]
Image Courtesy of Crave Online What Midway Games was hoping would start a high-price bidding war between companies turned out to be their only shot at purchase when Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment’s late-May bid of $33 Million turned out to be the studio’s only offer. Rumors and reports abound about many developers and publishers waffling […]
EA recently made head-way into a proposed merger of famed-RPG developer Bioware and massively multiplayer online games studio Mythic Entertainment into one major, RPG/MMO development company. The yet unnamed studio will be headed by Bioware general manager and co-founder Ray Muzyka, with Bioware’s other co-founder Greg Zeschuk will take on the role of Group Creative […]