Today's announcement of id Software's acquisition by ZeniMax Media (owner of Bethesda Softworks) took most people by surprise. Yet it's not the only time that a big independent game developer has been bought out by a publisher. Sometime the new relationship works out for both companies and sometimes it doesn't.Big Download decided to look back at just some of the major acquisitions between PC game developers and publishers and see how they fared. Which ones bore fruit? Which ones failed to live to their potential? And which one resulted in the developer shutting down operations even after a successful run of major PC game hits?
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Men of War: Red Tide
Champions Online: Nemesis Confrontation
Boot Disk: Fallout 2
Dino D-Day
(Possible) Project V13 Screenshots
King's Bounty: Armored Princess
Zero Gear
Boot Disk: Diablo
Wings Of Prey
Damn, did THQ really only pay 10 million for relic? What a deal...
I think you forgot some other big names though: EA buying Origin and Bullfrog; MS buying FASA and Lionhead and so on...Posted at 6:16PM on Jun 24th 2009 by Com_Raven