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Read More »Ubisoft praises ‘fantastic freedom’ from Vivendi and wants to invest in new IPs
Alain Corre, Ubisoft’s EMEA executive director, tells MCV@gamescom about the firm’s ambitions, with a particular focus on family-friendly new IPs, and the lessons the publisher has learnt from Starlink’s overambitious launch
Read More »Frontier signs ‘a major global IP licence’ for upcoming title
Cambridge-based developer announces second self-published franchised title
Read More »The gaming IP minefield – different rights and different jurisdictions
With IP rights back in the news as Bluehole takes legal action against Epic – now's the time to make sure all your licensed and owned IP is in order
Read More »Opinion: To Be This Good Takes SEGA
It may be an old advertising slogan for the Mega Drive (or Genesis for American readers), but Sean Cleaver thinks the planned revival of Sega IPs could be great – if they are done properly of course
Read More »Jury to rule on DOTA IP ownership
Two developers have presented a legal argument that Valve cannot claim ownership to the DOTA intellectual property. The name DOTA originates from a Warcraft III mod named Defense of the Ancient’s but is now more widely known thanks to its use in Valve’s popular MOBA title DOTA 2. Blizzard and …
Read More »Sega wants to revive some of its classic IPs
Streets of Rage, Blazing Heroes, Full Auto, Panzer Dragoon, After Burner, Seaman, Virtua Cop – let your imaginations run wild. Sega has published a new ‘Road to 2020‘ roadmap in which it says that part of its strategy for creating titles that will become global hits” is to resurrect some …
Read More »THQ Nordic has purchased even more IP, including Delta Force and F-22
THQ Nordic has purchased a number of IP’s and assets from NovaLogic and is seemingly open to developers pitching them ideas based on the franchises. Following on from purchasing multiple IP’s from the likes of THQ and Atari, THQ Nordic has purchased the rights to Delta Force, Comanche, Joint Operations, …
Read More »Koukoi Games raises $1m in funding to develop games based on licensed IP
Finnish games studio has now raised $2m since 2015 founding
Read More »Earthworm Jim and other Interplay IP up for sale
Around 70 titles and dozens of characters to be sold off
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