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SouthPeak gobbles up Gamecock

Independent publishers combine to create larger company; Legendary and Mushroom Men still due out this quarter.

In February 2007, two former Gathering of Developers executives cofounded Gamecock Media Group, a company aimed at promoting independently developed games and tackling what it saw as a "bloated and originality-starved industry." Mike Wilson and Harry Miller based Gamecock in Austin, Texas, and announced that such games as Fury and Insecticide were in development.

The company built on Gathering of Developers' legacy by hosting events such as a "funeral" for E3 after the 2007 show. Gamecock has several titles on its publishing roster, including Spark Unlimited's Legendary (in the US), Red Fly Studios' Mushroom Men games for the Wii and DS, and Wideload's Hail to the Chimp.

Today, SouthPeak Games, part of SouthPeak Interactive Corporation, announced that it has acquired Gamecock Media Group. The Virginia-based publisher, which published Two Worlds, Monster Madness: Grave Danger, and B-Boy, said in a statement that, "Gamecock brings us a solid slate of upcoming titles...and supports our strategy of working with independent developers."

Mergers have been commonplace in the games industry of late. Koei and Tecmo recently announced that they were to combine their businesses, and the coming together of Activision and Vivendi (owners of Blizzard) has created a gaming behemoth. Although Take-Two has decided to repel EA's advances and go it alone, many other gaming companies may be looking to mergers to shore up their finances, especially as market declines have hit shares in games firms.

No financial details of the deal were released, but Mike Wilson, CEO of Gamecock, said that, "combining our team with theirs results in a very strong and well-rounded force in the market."

79 Comments

  • Lucidmike78

    Posted Feb 14, 2009 12:56 am GMT

    They should have followed the headline with num num num num num....

  • BoshisCookie

    Posted Dec 1, 2008 9:09 pm GMT

    holy sh*t that's an awesome headline

  • krunkattack

    Posted Oct 20, 2008 10:54 am GMT

    based on the title, i thought this article was some kind of joke!

  • necronaux

    Posted Oct 17, 2008 10:48 am GMT

    Took a while to actually be able to read this article. The parental block on my PC kept kicking in.

  • -NickJC1-

    Posted Oct 15, 2008 1:04 pm GMT

    Headline was stolen from Eurogamer, they posted it first. Stealing other peoples funny's.

  • damaster101

    Posted Oct 15, 2008 4:50 am GMT

    That title was hirlarious. And why is two worlds a related game to this article? In a way it did gobble many gamecocks.

  • Serpaidet

    Posted Oct 15, 2008 1:22 am GMT

    GameFAQ's would moderate whoever posted that article.

    I however, laugh and enjoy what they in fact did there.

  • IvanKavinski

    Posted Oct 15, 2008 12:47 am GMT

    Wow, took some balls to word the headline that way...

  • CureForLiving

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 11:42 pm GMT

    Lets hope this means more original independent-type games with slightly bigger budget rather then gamecock starting to make less original titles.
    Oh and nice article title

  • a0me

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 10:01 pm GMT

    I see what you did there.

  • DFalcon999

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 9:46 pm GMT

    Somewhere, Beavis and Butt-head are laughing at this article.

  • jomaster007

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 8:12 pm GMT

    Is this like a dog whistle effect and they just don't hear it but we all can

  • jazilla

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 6:37 pm GMT

    silly gamespot and your cheeky article titles. you're all a bunch of lovable scamps!

  • Mestizado

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 6:22 pm GMT

    lol damn i thought this was a porno game or something

  • arc_salvo

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 5:44 pm GMT

    Well, I hope this means that more creative independent games get new life and funding and end up getting published. I really do think that the excessive focus on graphics have choked creativity and made publishers too risk-averse and unwilling to try to do new things.

    Now if only more developers would try to go the way of Bioware and Obsidian and release more quality CRPG-style choice and story-driven RPG's. That'd be nice.

  • chilipepperman

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 4:52 pm GMT

    lol

  • BeanTownBrown86

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 4:52 pm GMT

    ...to easy

  • Rockclmbr6

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 4:46 pm GMT

    best news title ever!

  • bibliomaniac15

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 4:42 pm GMT

    I just realized that I need to get my mind out of the gutter.

  • Nintendo_Man

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 4:36 pm GMT

    This proves people on GS have dirty minds, i actually didn't think much of it until you guys pointed it out.

  • sliny

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 4:30 pm GMT

    O_o

  • sdkingsht

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 4:08 pm GMT

    the headline for this story is wrong in so many ways. lol.

  • AurusRegulus

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 3:51 pm GMT

    Best headline ever.

  • Ardiendo_1

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 3:01 pm GMT

    I literally burst out laughing when I saw this headline. Calling themselves gamecock was the best PR move ever. I mean who doesn't know who they are now?

  • aximill12345

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 2:55 pm GMT

    This is one news story which gaygamer.net is well suited for (http://gaygamer.net/2008/10/southpeak_swallows_gamecock.html) but this is a funny headline.

  • TAKE_IT_BACK

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 2:45 pm GMT

    at the title

  • Elk

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 2:33 pm GMT

    Great headline, LozzaGS has won the internet

  • SEEDman_X

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 2:26 pm GMT

    I like the titles!! Most gamespot articles have fun titles, but this one is just about the best so far :-)

  • ThAdEa82

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 2:20 pm GMT

    In "related content" to the right of the article..."Southpeak Games Announces Mister Slime Available Now" If Laura Jenner is adament about the gobbling of gamecock, she may get Mister Slime that was recently released

  • quietguy

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 2:16 pm GMT

    I don't know what astounds me more:

    Gamecock's supposed commitment to independency, or that half of users are only here to gawk at the article title & giggle like kids (half-true).

    IMHO. Gamecock's getting the forewarned taste of it's own medicine, which is bad.

  • hector530

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 2:11 pm GMT

    "SouthPeak gobbles up Gamecock"

    wheres the link for the video?

  • Jigsaw9798

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 2:09 pm GMT

    LOL, this headline is EPIC!

  • ReaperV7

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 1:54 pm GMT

    *looks at title*

    /facepalm at Laura Jenner

  • valdarez

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 1:51 pm GMT

    That title is just wrong... gobbles up game cock

  • brownba3

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 1:44 pm GMT

    So will the name of the new company be Cock Peak?

  • okassar

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 1:16 pm GMT

    ROFL!!!!Gamespot is frikkin' hilarious ahahaha "gobbles up Gamecock" I'm still cracking up lol.It's now come to the point where it's obviously on purpose lol,but it sure as hell made me open up the article.

  • fmobliv06

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 12:51 pm GMT

    i only read this because of the headline. this is the most inapropriate headline i've ever seen on gamespot; i hope it was intentional cuz otherwise i feel bad for the guy who wrote it. lol. also, i'd like to express my dissatisfaction at the lack of gamecock-gobbling going on here.

  • freakflows

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 12:38 pm GMT

    So what I get from this is that the new company gobbles gamecock.

    k

  • webby1

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 12:35 pm GMT

    Hopefully it will help the quality of their games.
    And I know Laura did that on purpose, ahah.

  • Icehearted

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 12:16 pm GMT

    "two horrible developers into one mega horrible company=even crappier games. hail to the chimp and two worlds? now together? please god spare the poor gamers who have to deal with enough bad taste gaming"

    Pretty much says it all.

  • EpsilonChi

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 12:15 pm GMT

    LOL, brilliant!

  • 73X

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 12:13 pm GMT

    What a kinky title.

  • SemiMaster

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 12:06 pm GMT

    I think the word "gobbles" made it worse.

  • chaoticchild555

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 12:05 pm GMT

    Wow... wow, wow and more wow. Seriously GS!? Hahahaha, nice going! Rock on, hahaha!

  • oldogg

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 11:57 am GMT

    ahahahaha!

  • ThAdEa82

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 11:50 am GMT

    A bunch of gamecock for gobbling...Laura Jenner, do you like the gobbling of gamecock?

  • spongeliv

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 11:49 am GMT

    SouthPeak gobbles up Gamecock? There's got to be a better way to say that.

  • Paladin_King

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 11:45 am GMT

    Man, i can't believe GS actually went for that headline.

  • mykel77

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 11:42 am GMT

    maybe it will call itself, " PEACOCK" as gamecock wasnt a bad name to begin with.

  • mykel77

    Posted Oct 14, 2008 11:41 am GMT

    two horrible developers into one mega horrible company=even crappier games. hail to the chimp and two worlds? now together? please god spare the poor gamers who have to deal with enough bad taste gaming

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