DC Studios Announces the Signing of a Major Deal with Konami of Europe
Game developer DC Studios today announced a major multi-format development agreement between DC Studios and the European arm of games publisher Konami.
Montreal, Canada; Glasgow, UK (PRWEB) February 21, 2005 -- Following on from
the success of the Tour de France Centenary Edition title for the Sony
PlayStation 2, Konami has contracted DC Studios to produce a major
multi-platform game for release in Q4 2005. The game, on PS2, PC and GBA, will
be developed in DC Studios Montreal studio using the company’s state of the art
gaming toolkits which cover all major gaming platforms including the Sony
PlayStation and PSP, PC, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo Gamecube, Nintendo GameBoy
Advance, Nintendo GameBoy DS and Zodiac Tapwave.
DC is one of the world's
most experienced development studios, having successfully created over sixty
different projects, across all formats, in the five years since the company was
founded, with many titles coming from the world's largest media companies and
involving some of the biggest licenses from movies, TV and
videogames.
‘We are very happy to once again be working with one of the
most respected publishers in the world on a major project. It will be great to
work once again with Tony and his team. I am sure that this game will be a great
success for all of us’ Said Mark Greenshields, CEO of DC Studios.
Tony
Bickley, the European Development Manager of Konami, Europe, said, “DC Studio’s
have proven themselves in the past to be very reliable, delivering for us
Quality product to budget and on time. I had no hesitation in commissioning them
to take on a new strategic title for us.”
For more information on DC
Studios visit : www.dc-studios.com
About DC Studios
With offices in
Montreal, Canada, Glasgow, Scotland and Bristol, UK, DC Studios is one of the
top development studios in the world today. The company is financially strong
and is (and always has been) profitable, making it a reliable and dependable
partner. The company has worked with clients such as Konami, Ubisoft, HIP
Interactive / Arush , ABC, Decode Entertainment, Majesco, In-Fusio, THQ and many
others across all current games platforms, including the PC, PlayStation,
PlayStation 2, XBox, Gamecube, GameBoy Advance, DS, PSP and mobile phone
handsets. Since it was founded in 1999 the company has shipped over 60 titles
including the best selling Bratz (Ubisoft), Tour de France Centenary Edition
(Konami) and The Cat In The Hat for Take 2. DC Studios worked with Majesco on
the development of their proprietary GBA-VIDEO technology which has been hugely
successful with titles such as Spongebob Squarepants, Yu-Gui-Oh, Sonic X and
Dora the Explorer.
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