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 [...]