Mobile Games Distributor Moves into Development

Mobile games publisher and distributor Telcogames has announced the acquisition of game developer and publisher Magic Productions, a developer of games for Symbian & Microsoft Windows powered mobile "Smartphones". The purchase of Magic Productions is part of Telcogames strategy to build an extensive catalogue of first class content for the rapidly growing Smartphone market. It provides the company with a best of breed development studio as an internal resource.

Jamie Conyngham, the CEO of Telcogames, said, "The Magic Productions acquisition is an extremely good fit for Telcogames. We think the studio is making some of the best mobile games in the world at the moment. We want to supplement our world leading J2ME & Brew portfolio from over 100 publishers with our own high-end games aimed at the serious and experienced mobile gamer who demands an extremely high quality product"

Founded in January 2003 with Headquarters in Paris, Magic Productions develops console-like games for the latest Symbian and Windows mobile phones. Magic Productions owns a number of videogame and console licenses and has developed near perfect versions of a number of classic games including QWAK and the masterpiece that is Another World, which has already earned critical acclaim from the media.

Telcogames has also commissioned Magic Productions to re-create the hugely popular Cannon Fodder and more recently Nebulus both of which are released in November 2005 and are already being extremely well received by gamers and review sites.

Under the terms of the agreement Telcogames will continue to build the Magic Productions brand and Nicolas Hamel will become Head of Development for Telcogames. The integration of the companies and hence completion of the agreement will occur in early 2006.

"Magic Productions have developed a highly portable Application Programming Interface (API) which speeds up the development process and allows Telcogames to release games more quickly for every high end platform. The acquisition ensures Telcogames will remain a leading publisher in the Smartphone games market and allows us to publish the most compelling and sophisticated titles to consumers worldwide. Already our launch titles have created a new benchmark for quality and gameplay in the mobile games market " says Conyngham."

Posted to the site on 24th November 2005