Amidst the after-math of its own legal battles, Southpeak Games has become the target of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Specifically, the charges alleged against the Two Worlds developer’s chairman Terry Phillips and CEO Melanie Mroz include mis-reporting of company finances and failure to follow government regulations on internal accounting. The company received Wells […]
Graham Hopper, the man attributed for taking Disney’s Interactive division from a movie-based games to the third-party studio behind unique titles like Split/Second, announced his resignation earlier last week in an internal email. Hopper had held the General Manager position at Disney Interactive for the past eight years, and it is not currently clear who […]
Any doubts on whether or not the lack of the Infinity Ward label on Call of Duty: Black Ops would translate to less sales were put to rest after the game’s $350 million+ launch day. The next four days didn’t slow the sales too much either, the game going on to make $650 million in […]
Viacom’s exit from the games industry has unseated several development studios. And while the Rock Band-creators at Harmonix got the first headlines, the folks at Bruckheimer Games, the game studio co-owned by Jerry Bruckheimer and MTV, are also out on the street. Far from closing, however, the studio is being extremely proactive in seeking a […]