Beside the economic downturn, third-party peripheral maker Mad Catz is doing just fine.
Back in 2006, the US Army approached Microsoft with a lucrative contract offer: supply a ton of Xbox 360 consoles to the Army for the purposes of training soldiers. Microsoft’s answer? No, thank you.
Good evening, everyone. Thanks for joining us for this Kotaku Off Topic meeting, where we have some non-video game related synergising and knowledge transfer to do. Let’s exercise best practices and think outside the box tonight.
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Top-flight titles like Rock Band and Left 4 Dead are distributed by Electronic Arts but the association doesn’t mean as much to the company’s bottom line. The publisher will be moving away from distributing third-party titles in the coming year.
We received a desperate plea last night from a former staffer at WA developer Interzone Games. Seems the developer is just days from liquidation, with a major outstanding tax debt and unpaid wages to current and former staff. What’s even worse is the US parent company could be breaking a wealth of laws to leave local staff high and dry. UPDATE: Interzone CEO Marty Brickey has responded.
