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EA Mobile grabs Taito's retro goldmine
Tim Green May 20 2008, 11:38am
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EA Mobile has bagged the European rights to the Taito catalogue, which includes arcade classics like Space Invaders.
The agreement is effective immediately and assigns rights across all mobile channels and devices. The first games to be covered under this new agreement include Cooking Mama, Space Invaders, Arkanoid, Bubble Bobble, Puzzle Bobble and Rainbow Islands and more. Taito is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Square Enix, and previously self-distributed its games in Europe.
“Taito has produced some of the all time games classics as well as innovating with new titles like Cooking Mama,” said Javier Ferreira, VP of European publishing at EA Mobile.
“This deal gives EA Mobile immediate access to an incredibly popular catalogue on existing devices while offering us the opportunity to bring these titles to new mobile platforms.”
Shinichiro Kasama, executive officer of Taito, added: “By aligning ourselves with a market leader in the European mobile space, we can bring an even stronger focus on what we do best, which is creating amazing games.”
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“3 horses”
Posted by: T Candy - May 21, 12:11am
Does anybody believe that Mobile publishing is not a 3 horse play now with EA, Gameloft & Glu battling it out amongst themselves for supremacy.
While Java is their bread & butter, iPhone & NGI will be the icing on the cake as 2nd tier mobile publishers hesitate and fail to invest in these more advanced high margin platforms.
“Re: 3 horses”
Posted by: Ms. Pac-Man - May 21, 9:10am
Plenty of room for everyone. Not everyone wants to play (or has the ability to play) iPhone and NGI games. Look at the console sector - Activision & EA are hugely dominant, but Ubi Soft (albeit with a big EA stake), Sega, Capcom, Nintento and the likes of Codemasters have all found their niches.