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Midway Games Ltd., formerly a subsidiary of Midway Games Inc., today announced that Spiess Media Holding UG, a company owned by Martin Spiess, Executive Vice President – International of Midway Games Ltd., has purchased the UK and French offices of Midway Games Inc., formerly a developer and publisher of computer and video games with a [...]

From Square Enix’s acquisition of Eidos emerges a new European arm for the Japanese publisher, currently known as Square Enix Europe, to be headed by Eidos boss Phil Rogers. The Eidos name will still be used to brand its own developed games, but the move represents the elimination of the Eidos organization as publishing label.  [...]

Namco Bandai Games Europe says it has wrapped up the purchase of Atari’s European distribution business, re-naming the new entity Namco Bandai Partners.
Namco Bandai Partners will now oversee distribution of Namco Bandai Games, Atari titles and those of other publishing partners in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. It’ll operate [...]

Last week, Midway held an auction for its various assets; a few weeks beforehand, Time Warner was expected to make off with the lion’s share of property for roughly $33 million. This turned out to be the case, as a Delaware bankruptcy judge approved the deal and Time Warner wound up acquiring most of the [...]

Empire Interactive has gone into administration, becoming the games industry’s latest victim of the recession. All staff at the firm’s London offices were sent home this week, and the company is in the process of making all employees redundant. Russian distributor and publisher Noviy Disk seemed a likely White Knight last month, but the two firms could [...]

French publisher Infogrames (Alone In The Dark) has officially completed its acquisition of U.S. based Atari, Inc. Although Infogrames was previously the majority shareholder, Atari now becomes a wholly owned subsidiary. Infogrames will pay $1.68 per share for all outstanding shares of Atari common stock not already owned by Infogrames or its affiliates. This gives [...]

 Vivendi (Euronext Paris: VIV) and Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced the completion of the transaction announced on December 2, 2007 to create Activision Blizzard, as the world’s most profitable pure-play online and console game publisher. Activision Blizzard was formed by combining Activision, one of the world’s leading independent publishers of interactive entertainment, and Vivendi [...]

1C Company, the largest Russian developer/publisher, today announced that their company would become even larger as they have acquired one of their rivals, Buka. Specifc financial terms were not disclosed but the press release states, ” . . . .managers of both enterprises will try to make the best use of the synergy in their [...]