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Nordic Games Group AB is a Swedish computer game publisher and retail company based in Karlstad, Sweden. Its core portfolio comprises products and brands which were acquired from JoWooD Entertainment and DreamCatcher Interactive in 2011 and from THQ in 2014. ==History== At the beginning of the 1990s, Lars Wingefors founded a company named LW Comics to sell and trade secondhand comic books. In 1993 the focus of that company shifted to video games, again starting as a mail-order retailer for secondhand software and cartridges, finally becoming Nordic Games. Over the years the company added new goods to its portfolio and established several stores over the Finnish and Scandinavian area.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nordic Games Group )〕 In 2000 British retailer Gameplay.com (later renamed to Game) acquired Nordic Games for £5.96 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gameplay.com buys Nordic Games )〕 After the dot-com bubble Wingefors re-acquired the Nordic retail division from financially troubled Gameplay for 1 Swedish Krona or 7 pence.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gameplay division sold for £1 )〕 In 2004, the company started with a new outlet store concept. In 2008, Nordic Games entered game development by creating its own publishing branch Nordic Games Publishing in order to create products for its outlet stores. Some minor success was the singing game series ''We Sing'' for the Wii console.〔 On August 16, 2011 Nordic Games Holding announced that it had acquired assets from JoWooD, its products and brands, including The Adventure Company. Following the acquisition it was announced that JoWooD and The Adventure Company will become publishing labels for Nordic Games GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nordic Games Holding. Today, Nordic Games Austria is handling most of Nordic Games' releases, licensing deals are handled by the Swedish Nordic Games Licensing AB. In February 2012, Nordic Games took over the boxed release of Alan Wake from Remedy Entertainment for PC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alan Wake getting boxed PC version from Nordic Games )〕 In May 2012, Nordic Games acquired 55 shops and the online store for Sweden and Norway from Game.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Publisher Nordic Games buys GAME's Scandinavian business )〕 In April 2013, Nordic Games acquired the remaining properties still owned by the bankrupt American video game publisher THQ as part of the company's liquidation, including the ''Darksiders'', ''Red Faction'', and ''MX vs. ATV'' franchises. Nordic plans to find new distribution channels for some of its newly acquired properties, and has considered the third-party development of new installments.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.polygon.com/2013/4/23/4257466/the-future-of-darksiders-red-faction-and-thqs-other-ip-at-nordic-games )〕 On June 12, 2014, it was also announced that Nordic Games had acquired the THQ trademarks, allowing the company to use the THQ brand as an imprint on future games.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/12/5805074/thq-trademark-acquired-nordic-games )〕 In November, it also acquired the rights to the THQ series ''de Blob''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nordic officially purchases de Blob series from THQ )〕 From Atari, SA, Nordic Games bought the rights to the ''Desperados series'' and ''Silver'' in June 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nordic Games acquires rights to Atari's Desperados and Silver )〕 In April 2014 it took over the rights to the adventure series ''The Black Mirror'' from bankrupt German publisher dtp entertainment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Black Mirror - Nordic Games übernimmt Adventure-Marke )〕 It was followed by the acquisition of dtp's licenses for ''The Moment of Silence'', ''The Mystery of the Druids'' and ''Curse of the Ghost Ship'', originally created by German developer House of Tales, as well as the commercial rights for the trademarks ''Overclocked: A History of Violence'' and ''15 Days''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nordic Games GmbH: "The Moment of Silence" und andere dtp-Lizenzen gekauft - 4Players.de )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nordic acquires adventure games from Awesomenauts publisher )〕 In July 2015, ''Nordic Games GmbH'' and Piranha Bytes announced a collaboration to produce a new open-world action Sci-Fi RPG called ELEX.〔http://elexgame.com/〕 Later that year in August, Nordic Games announced their acquisition of Jagged Alliance and other franchises from bitComposer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nordic Games (company)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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