Posts Tagged ‘Midway’

Warner Bids for Midway

May 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Good news for Midway today as Warner Bros showed interest in the company. It is offering $ 33 million to acquire various brands, studios and other assets.

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Midway Selling Main Licenses

March 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Brand Licensing | No Comments »

In order to safe the company from going bankrupt, Midway has chosen to start selling some of it's main brands to the competition. The first license it has sold was Wheelman, next one is Mortal Kombat.

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Midway Files for Chapter 11

February 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Though Midway had just been sold a few months back and recently announced their iPhone games, the (mobile) games publisher has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection late last week.

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The MMO of Game Publishing

January 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Funbox | 5 Comments »

Player EA logged in.
Player Midway logged in.
Player Activision logged in.
Player Take_2 logged in.
Player THQ logged in.
Player Microsoft logged in.
Player Sony logged in…

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Midway Sold for $ 100K

December 2nd, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »

Though Midway never really lifted off in the mobile games market, they do have some history in which they licensed several brands to established mobile publishers.