Major Game Companies Bid For 3DO Assets 25
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Reuters/Yahoo report revealing that seven video game companies have qualified to bid in the auction for the assets of bankrupt publisher 3DO Co. The assets of the recently defunct developer/publisher are being displayed at the 3DOinfo.com website, and the article indicates that "In a notice filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco, 3DO's attorneys said Microsoft, Eidos, Ubi Soft, JoWooD Productions Software AG, Namco Hometek Inc., Turbine Entertainment Software Corp. and Crave Entertainment filed by Wednesday's deadline to bid in the Aug. 14 auction." Their specific targets weren't revealed, but it's easy to speculate that companies such as Turbine might be interested in the Heroes Of Might And Magic license - other assets up for sale include High Heat Baseball and Army Men.
It's kind of sad... (Score:1, Informative)
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Talk about sad =(
HotGen also (Score:2)
And that probably applies to most of the other smaller companies that have shut recently.
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Good! (Score:2)
All they kept on doing was improving the graphics, and the gameplay was more or less the same - no new innovations whatsoever.
They also did the same to High Heat Baseball.. the 2002 version was like rated the best baseball game.. and then they just got lazy, and now that honor goes to MVP Baseball of EA Sports...
I just don't like how they handled all thes
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(You don't happen to work for 3DO, do you?)
fighting over 3DO (Score:2, Funny)
Company 2: No I want it! You can't have it.
C1: But with 3DO's sucky lineup of games I could release twice as much video game vomit a year!
C2: If I don't get 3DO I'll have go back to punching kids in the gut and stealing their lunch money. Granted, it's not as morally apprehensible as releasing Army Men games but it's also not nearly as lucrative.
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Most recently they've been doing fighting games, Tekken and Soul Calibur are Namco franchises. Namco goes pretty far back, though, buying Atari (Japan) from Atari US back in the 70's and releasing arcade games such as Galaga, Galaxian, Pac-Man, Pole Position, and Xevious (Namco didn't sell coin-op arcade machines directly in the US until the 90's, so most of thes
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1974 Entered coin-operated videogame market through acquisition of Atari (Japan) Corp. from Atari Corp. of the U.S.
1990
Namco America Inc. began direct sales of coin-operated games in the U.S. and acquired Atari Operations Inc. to commence amusement arcade operations in the U.S. Established Namco Hometek Inc. as a U.S. distribution base for home videogame software.
They didn't buy the name afaik, but they definitely bought assets that were needed to become
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Chris Mattern
Army Men (Score:2)