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Eidos Acquires Danish "Hitman 2" Developer IO Interactive for $42 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 4, 2004 - 6:49am.
London -- U.K.-based video game developer Eidos announced on Thursday that it will acquire Denmark-based developer IO Interactive, creators of titles like "Hitman 2" and "Freedom Fighters," for $42 million. The purchase price could increase to $51 million, based on a four year, performance based earn-out. Eidos, known for its "Tomb Raider" game franchise, said the acquisition of IO increases its internally owned intellectual property and strengthens its European creative base and resources for development.
tags: Eidos | Interactive | Danish | Hitman 2 | IO |

Danish P2P Site The Honest Thief Revealed As Hoax Publicity Stunt

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 3, 2003 - 3:21am.
Arnhem, the Netherlands -- The Honest Thief, a Dutch peer-to-peer file-sharing service that purported to be taking advantage of a recent Dutch court ruling in favor of the legality of file-sharing services, has been revealed by its creator to be a hoax and publicity stunt for his book of the same name. Pieter Plass, founder of Internet services firm PGR and president of construction company CBB, revealed the hoax that duped his PR firm, press release distributor Business Wire, and publications including The Wall Street Journal, CNET News.com, Wired News and Digital Media Wire, on April Fool's Day. "The Honest Thief" is also the title of Plass' book on management strategies. "Our goal was first and foremost to get some attention for our book: The Honest Thief," Plass wrote in a note on TheHonestThief.com. "Secondly we wanted to confront the public with the practice of honest stealing: the tools that everybody uses to have success." "That's not the way PR is done in this country," Steven Phenix, senior director of PR agency Alliant Group, told Wired News. "I have a long list of people I have to apologize to." http://www.thehonestthief.com
tags: P2P | Danish | Hoax | The Honest Thief |

Danish Mobile Content Providers Realtime, Zellsoft Agree to Merger

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 21, 2003 - 4:29am.
Copenhagen -- Realtime, a provider of wireless application infrastructure, announced that it will merge with Zellsoft, a developer of wireless entertainment content. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Once merged, two Danish companies will take the Realtime name and have headquarters in Copenhagen. Realtime aims to be the leading European provider of entertainment for mobile devices. "The two companies will become a heavy player in the mobile entertainment area. We have the strength to compete on all continents, and together we will be providing more than 30 mobile operators globally with appealing mobile entertainment services," said Zellsoft CEO Mads V. Jorgensen. http://www.realtime.dk/subnews.php?newsid=643&subid=602&linkbg=1&where=2-3&flash=2
tags: Mobile | Merger | Danish | Realtime | Zellsoft |