Tue, Dec 15, 2009 | 15:08 GMT
Bethesda to publish RAGE
Zenimax will publish id’s RAGE, the Bethesda parent and id-owner just announced.
EA was to sell the game originally.
“Electronic Arts will not be involved in the sales and marketing of RAGE,” said Zenimax in a statement.
“The ongoing development of RAGE is unaffected by this development.”
PR after the break.
ZENIMAX ACQUIRES RIGHTS TO PUBLISH RAGE
December 15, 2009 (Rockville, MD) – ZeniMax Media Inc., parent company of id Software, announced today that it has picked up the publishing rights for RAGE™, the video game under development at id Software.
RAGE will be published by Bethesda Softworks, another ZeniMax subsidiary. As a result, Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) will not be involved in the sales and marketing of RAGE. The ongoing development of RAGE is unaffected by this development.
24 comments
#1
Blerk
15/12/09, 3:20 pm
Well, so much for that initial flurry of ‘this doesn’t affect Rage’ press releases.
#2
Zarckan
15/12/09, 3:26 pm
well it hasn’t affected Rage, it’s affected EA
#3
Blerk
15/12/09, 3:30 pm
I wonder how much money exchanged hands?
#4
No_PUDding
15/12/09, 3:32 pm
Do you think it will affect development when this becomes ‘Fallout: New World’?
#5
David Sarkisjan
15/12/09, 3:57 pm
Interesting turn of events …
#6
Hunam
15/12/09, 4:01 pm
I take it with Medal of Honor being the new focus of EA’s shooty shooty bang bang they wanted to offload anything they didn’t need and Zenimax saw this as a nice way to fully internalise id quicker.
#7
Suikoden Fan
15/12/09, 4:03 pm
so win-win for both sides?
#8
Hunam
15/12/09, 4:08 pm
I’d imagine so.
Plus that last EA partners game sold about 12 copies.
#9
Johnny Cullen
15/12/09, 4:08 pm
Hun’s theory is plausable.
In fact, thats the one I am going for.
#10
Suikoden Fan
15/12/09, 4:09 pm
what was the last partners game again?
#11
Blerk
15/12/09, 4:11 pm
Left 4 Dead 2, wasn’t it?
#12
Hunam
15/12/09, 4:11 pm
Brutal lolgend.
EA only distribute the physical copies of Valve games, beyond that they do nothing.
#13
Blerk
15/12/09, 4:16 pm
Pft, semantics.
#14
Hunam
15/12/09, 4:21 pm
Our glorious language is built on semantics. I’ll kill you before I’ll give up my nuances.
#15
Sethos
15/12/09, 4:37 pm
So EA won’t be breathing down anyone’s neck here, trying to rush the product out the door and cutting short the QA thus forcing us to update the game every other second and then when EA sees the game is doing well, they are going to ask the developers to release 60 expansions packs by the end of the month where at least one of them will contain a blue couch and an IKEA lamp?
#16
Hunam
15/12/09, 4:41 pm
EA wouldn’t have had any control in what id did outside of making the original game anyway. That’s not how external publishing works.
#17
The_Villa
15/12/09, 4:50 pm
They only changed the game title:
RAGE: another fallout crap.
Seriously, we want Black Isle back.
#18
Anders
15/12/09, 5:19 pm
@The_Villa: RAGE actually looks really nice. Beyond the fact that it is post-apocalyptic (like every third game or film these days), it’s really not that reminiscent to Fallout.
With that said, a new Black Isle-Fallout would be nice. Much like a new Shenmue.
#19
Hunam
15/12/09, 5:21 pm
Obsidian are making the next Fallout, though early comments make it out to be using the same engine/style as Fallout 3 rather than isometric fun.
#20
The Hindle
15/12/09, 5:30 pm
I wonder if this will come out in 2010 as well, if it does next year is going to be insane
#21
Hunam
15/12/09, 5:32 pm
I hope so. If anything can beat 2008, it’s 2010.
#22
The_Villa
15/12/09, 6:48 pm
@ Anders: I meaned the way that Bethesda Softworks has made the fallout franchise a lot of crap, and the way they are overexposing it.
#23
No_PUDding
15/12/09, 8:03 pm
My language isn’t built on nuance. It’s mainly built on bull-shit, lingual percolation, with occasionlly excessive employment of syntax, … !! ? And I can’t type very well.
#24
MushroomStamp
15/12/09, 9:29 pm
I don’t understand why the publisher matters. For me it’s all about the developers.