PhilThib wrote:[color="DarkRed"][SIZE="4"]Paradox Interactive Acquires Strategy Developer AGEOD[/size][/color]
NEW YORK – December 17, 2009 - Paradox Interactive, the leading PC strategy publisher, announced today that it has acquired full ownership of AGE Studio, parent company of renowned French development studio AGEOD. This acquisition merges two titans of the strategy gaming community and adds a variety of upcoming titles to the expanding Paradox Interactive portfolio.
“We have played and enjoyed AGEOD’s titles for years and greatly respect what they have achieved as a development studio. We see this acquisition as an opportunity to make AGEOD’s titles accessible to a wider audience on the global market,” said Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox Interactive.
“AGEOD will continue to operate as a self-run partner studio, with its own line of products based on the AGE-engine and its own development team while Paradox will assist with our publishing resources and networks,” Wester continued.
“This alliance will allow AGEOD to expand our audience and availability via Paradox’s worldwide network as well as obtain skills and expertise that our limited means prevented us to achieve on our own,” Philippe Thibaut, lead game designer and co-founder of AGEOD noted. “We will concentrate on our core expertise of product development and be able to offer our customers brand new strategy games as early as 2010, with the same level of care and dedication that we have for the past 5 years.”
Philippe Malacher, Head of Development and co-founder of AGEOD, added, “We are confident that, ultimately, all strategy game customers will be the primary beneficiaries of this partnership that will allow us to build more extensively on our past successes and on Paradox’s invaluable preponderance on the marketplace.”
The first title to release under this new alliance is Rise of Prussia, scheduled for a Q1, 2010 release. For more information, please visit http://www.ParadoxPlaza.com, follow us on twitter @pdxinteractive.com or join the commununity on our facebook fan page.
About Paradox Interactive
Since 1999, Paradox Interactive has been a leading global developer and publisher of PC-based strategy games. World-renowned for its strategy catalog, the company holds a particularly strong presence in the United States and Europe. Its steadily-growing portfolio includes originally developed titles such as the critically acclaimed Europa Universalis and the Hearts of Iron franchises, as well as publishing titles such as the Elven Legacy series, Mount&Blade and Majesty 2. Paradox stands poised to make an explosive entry onto consoles during 2010 with the release of Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West. For more information, please visit http://www.paradoxplaza.com and follow @pdxinteractive on Twitter.
About AGEOD
AGEOD was founded in 2005 by industry veterans Philippe THIBAUT (orignal designer of historical strategy games Europa Universalis™, Pax Romana™ ,Great Invasions™ and World War One™) and Philippe MALACHER (creator of the AGE engine). Since its start, AGEOD has released the famous turn-based strategy titles Birth of America™, AGEOD's American Civil War™, Napoleon's Campaigns™, War in America™ and, on a different engine World War One, 1914-1918™. AGEOD's main goal is to offer players original cultural and gaming creations based on precise and serious research, with first emphasis placed on historical strategy games with original and innovative features. http://www.ageod.com
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“AGEOD will continue to operate as a self-run partner studio, with its own line of products based on the AGE-engine and its own development team while Paradox will assist with our publishing resources and networks,” Wester continued.
Generalisimo wrote:eso es lo que te puse en negrita... y precisamente, te lo puse en negrita por algo.![]()
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picaron wrote:No digo nada que luego todo se sabe......![]()
Beren wrote:Se vera generalisimo, se vera... yo estando Paradox por medio no me fio ni un pelo sinceramente...
picaron wrote:PD: Creo que los juegos de AGEOD son minoritarios, la horquilla mayoritaria de edad lo dice todo y la capacidad adquisitiva por lo tanto distinta, sus foros son de naturaleza distinta; su sistema es distinto, uno en tiempo real y el otro por turnos, sus motores distintos, eran competencia, y a poco que se sepa algo de economía...
arsan wrote:Lo del elemento americano... te refieres a la distribución con Matrix??
Pues ni idea de si seguirán. Supongo que nos enteraremos pronto
Saludos
picaron wrote:Si ya decía yo que lo de Gray era sospechoso, bueno, al mal tiempo buena cara y a dar un voto de confianza....![]()
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Un saludete
arsan wrote:Hola!
Gray no tiene nada que ver con Matrix que yo sepa...salvo que sea jugador/comprador de alguno de sus productos (creo que fue modder del FoF antes de meterse con el AACW).
Creo que estás confundido, mezclado cosas que no tiene relación entre ellas.
Saludos!
picaron wrote:to por ello porque sus razones tendrán, porque yo sólo soy un espectador y jugador de sus juegos, me he pasado muchas horas con los juegos de ambas empresas, pero que quieres que te diga me da penita![]()
picaron wrote:Se mantendrá el nombre de AGEOD?
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