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Arty Rajendra, partner at Rouse Legal, discusses the legalities around key stripping and the impact it is having on the games business The market for digital downloads increases year-on-year, yet there remains a healthy market for the boxed products. Why is this and should gaming companies continue to invest heavily …
Read More »Square Enix opens old IP to Collective devs
Indies can now pitch to make the next Gex, Fear Effect and Anachronox games
Read More »Lumines and Meteos IP acquired by Mobcast
Japanese smartphone developer bringing Lumies to mobile
Read More »Starbreeze sells Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons IP to 505 Games
505 Games is the new owner of the Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons franchise. Having published the first game in the series in 2013, the company has now acquired the game and its related trademarks and domains for $500k from developer Starbreeze. The sale represents our final transition to …
Read More »Valuable assets: a developer’s guide to protecting IP
Stevens & Bolton associate Henry Milas runs through the essentials of preventing IP theft
Read More »Nordic IP acquisition continues with dtp Entertainment grab
Yet more intellectual properties have been scooped up by Nordic Games. The company has acquired some of dtp Entertainment’s IPs including The Moment of Silence, The Mystery of the Druids and Curse of the Ghost Ship. It has also taken over the commercial use” of Overclocked and 15 Days. Nordic …
Read More »Nordic Games on publishing big IP for less
It’s been a good few years for Nordic Games Group. In 2012 it purchased the Scandanavian branch of troubled retail brand GAME, and it started 2013 by buying a slew of high-profile IP from now-defunct publisher THQ. This included some big IP, such as Darksiders, Red Faction and the MX …
Read More »Dementium dev Renegade Kid reclaims IP rights
Texas-based studio now able to make sequels to Nintendo DS horror FPS series
Read More »OPINION: Would it really have mattered if Splatoon was a Mario game?
New IP does not necessarily mean new ideas, argues MCV editor Christopher Dring Shigeru Miyamoto told Edge magazine this month that Splatoon – the co-op ink shooter which was my personal game of the show at E3 – was almost a Mario game. Instead the firm opted against using the …
Read More »VIDEO: New BioWare IP teased for Gamescom
Developer BioWare has continued its teaser campaign for its mysterious presumably new project, due to be revealed at Gamescom next week. The latest short, entitled ‘You’ve Been Chosen: Impact’ (which you can see below) is the third such release from the company following ‘Nightmare’ and ‘Spark’ last month. There’s a …
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