Despite World of Goo sales, its retail publisher files for bankruptcy

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Despite World of Goo sales, its retail publisher files for bankruptcy

Posted Jan 30th 2009 7:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Biz, Casual, Puzzle

Earlier this week, we reported that World of Goo made the top 10 best selling PC games list for US retail stores for the week ending January 17. We mentioned at the time that the retail version of 2D Boy's acclaimed puzzle game is being published by Brighter Minds. Well, it appears not even the high sales of World of Goo is keeping Brighter Minds for filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

According to our sister site GameDaily Biz, the publisher filed for bankruptcy protection on Jan. 28 which means it can stay in business while it reorganizes. Little else is known about what's going on at the company and how it will affect its deal with 2D Boy for retail distribution of World of Goo.

Tags: 2d-boy, brighter-minds, world-of-goo

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Glad you didn't blow up the piracy angle like Joystiq. Way to know better ;)Posted at 8:14PM on Jan 30th 2009 by Sokkratez

Steam has it for sale, so I wouldn't worry much about not being able to buy it, less if you don't like digital downloaded games, then you might be SOL in a few months.Posted at 2:55AM on Jan 31st 2009 by tank

It's available on 2D Boy's website DRM free. At least I was.Posted at 11:50AM on Jan 31st 2009 by mko

Steam!!Posted at 2:11PM on Jan 31st 2009 by Game_playa

Steam requires you to lauch steam client every time you want to play the game.
This one don't http://2dboy.com/games.phpPosted at 8:04PM on Jan 31st 2009 by mko

If it doesnt come with DRM why pay for itPosted at 11:56PM on Feb 8th 2009 by Mike