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Major Game Companies Bid For 3DO Assets

Posted by simoniker on from the wolves-have-attorneys-and-large-deposits dept.

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.

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  1. It's kind of sad... by double-oh+three · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's kind of sad that one of the only companies where the CEO used his own private capital to try and keep it afloat went belly-up.

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    1. Re:It's kind of sad... by mahdi13 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Bryon Fargo used his pocket money to keep Interplay going...then Targus bought them and fired Bryon
      Talk about sad =(

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  2. Re:My two cents by PainKilleR-CE · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm not really sure what Namco does in this group at all, and I'm pretty much indifferent to them. Don't remember ever playing one of their games

    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 these games aren't normally associated with them here, Pac-Man, for instance, was distributed by Midway in the US). During the 90's they acquired Atari's arcade division and Aladdin's Castle Inc., which made them the largest arcade operator in the US.

    Also made Ridge Racer for the PS1, and Ridge Racer V for the PS2. They're also currently working with Nintendo on a couple of titles (Donkey Kong Racer and Star Fox), and they were rumoured to have been involved with Square and Enix before the SquareEnix merger.

    http://www.namco.co.jp/eg/history.html
    has most of the above and a bit more (like the information on their various Japanese amusement parks).

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