[game_edu] Publishing a Game

[David Wessman]

Great summary, Ian! There is one company that has consolidated development,
publishing and retail: 1C Company. This from an article in
Newsweek<http://www.newsweek.com/id/207120>last July:



> Leading the Russian charge westward is 1C Company, which was founded in

> 1991 as a business software publisher and has earned a reputation as

> Russia's Microsoft. By 1996, the company had entered the videogame business

> and introduced PC franchises like Theater of War, Kings Bounty, Death to

> Spies, and Soldiers: Heroes of World War II.

>

> Today, 1C is the largest game publisher and developer in Russia as well as

> in Eastern and Central Europe, with more than 700 employees, including a

> team of 250 internal game developers. It has rolled up smaller competitors,

> has 1,000 company-owned retail stores, and has gained Russian distribution

> rights to popular titles like Grand Theft Auto IV. Last year, 1C published

> 22 new games and now ships one metric ton of product every hour of every

> day.

>

 David Wessman
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Ian Schreiber <ai864 at yahoo.com> wrote:


>

> You would think at this point that you could continue the pattern, and it

> would occur to someone to consolidate development with retail, where a first

> party would merge with a chain of retail stores or something, but so far

> that has not happened. (Why not? That's another good class discussion :)

>

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