Posts tagged consolidation

Dyack predicts more publisher consolidation

by Justin McElroy (Nov 16th 2009 9:00AM)

Publishers have been disappearing faster than Ludwig's snickerdoodles at Joystiq's Mid-Autumn Tea Social lately, both through bankruptcy or (for the lucky ones) being purchased. Designer and industry soothsayer Denis Dyack told Gaming Union he expects that to continue, comparing the shift to that ...

Silicon Knights could join a major publisher in the era of consolidation

by Xav de Matos (Aug 28th 2008 10:00AM)

In the final part of our three-part interview with Silicon Knights president Denis Dyack we discussed the one console future, specifically the topic of consolidation. With companies such as Electronic Arts purchasing developers like BioWare and Pandemic and Microsoft purchasing Lionhead, does ...

DICE 08: Riccitiello warns against consolidation, says EA 'blew it'

by James Ransom-Wiley (Feb 8th 2008 7:30PM)

EA CEO John Riccitiello took the stage during the final day of DICE to preach a doctrine of, well, basically: the exact opposite of everything EA has been doing for the past 15 years. In late 1992, EA gobbled up Origin, and then it was Bullfrog in '95, followed by Westwood in '98, and so and so ...