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Post by Iron Man on Mar 10, 2008 13:51:06 GMT -5
Genius Products Enters the Game-Distribution Arena
Genius Products, best known as the distributor for products from Animal Planet, ESPN and the WWE, has entered the videogame-publishing and distribution business. The company's first game will be "Line Rider" for Wii, Nintendo DS and PC.
Genius Products plans to offer a number of new titles in 2008 across a variety of genres and platforms. Line Rider, the first of these titles, is expected to hit stores this summer.
However, while Line Rider will be the company's first game, Genius Products' move into game-publishing begs the question of what will happen to THQ's contract for its WWE game franchise, among others. With Genius Products the "normal" distributor for WWE and ESPN content, as mentioned above, will Genius Products eventually become the publisher and distributor for those related games as well?
(Thanks to Mike Informer)
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Mar 10, 2008 14:19:00 GMT -5
Sounds quite likely TBH.
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Post by bowlofpetunias on Mar 10, 2008 15:37:24 GMT -5
A New Challenger Approaches!
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Post by bad guy™ on Mar 10, 2008 18:00:41 GMT -5
If they are cheap, WWE will bite. Hopefully WWE will pick the right candidate in the end, but I am not holding my breath...
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Post by †hê Jå§ðñ Wïllïåm§ on Mar 11, 2008 19:35:15 GMT -5
what are we going to have wrestlers beeing drawn out?
I mean WWE, you cant pick the people who are going to make Line RIder on a home game console.
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Post by fallenhero on Mar 11, 2008 22:35:45 GMT -5
It seems more likely that they go with EA or 2K, honestly.
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Post by mercennario1080 on Mar 11, 2008 23:03:31 GMT -5
EA ftw.
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Post by hbkjason on Mar 12, 2008 2:26:07 GMT -5
My money is still on EA I mean if EA want it then they will get it the only way I could see it not going to EA is for some reason they had no interest in the WWE name.
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Post by bad guy™ on Mar 12, 2008 11:06:10 GMT -5
If EA gets it, they had better use the CryENGINE2 game engine. Look it up guys, it is amazing.
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