Phoenix Games B.V.

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Phoenix Games B.V.
Besloten Vennootschap
Industry Video games
FateBankruptcy
Founded2002
2003 (UK subsidiary)
FounderPaul Share
Steve Share
Willie Horden
Defunct3rd August 2010
Headquarters
Nuenen
,
NL
Area served
Europe
Key people
Paul Share (CEO)
ProductsBuget video games, movies
OwnerPaul Share, Steve Share
Number of employees
10 (2003)
Parent Phoenix Games Group
Divisions Phoenix Games Ltd.
Phoenix Games Asia
Website http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com

Phoenix Games B.V. was a Dutch video game publisher founded in 2003. The company was known for releasing a large amount of "budget" titles for the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, Microsoft Windows and Wii, although they had planned to release their games on the PlayStation Portable [1] [2] and Xbox as well.

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They had contracts with over 50 developer studios around the globe.

Phoenix Games Group

Phoenix Games was devised between three companies, Phoenix Games B.V., Phoenix Games Ltd. and Phoenix Games Asia. The group was an exhibitor at E3 in 2005 [3] and ECTS2003. [4]

Phoenix Games B.V.

Founded in May 2002 by Willie Horden [5] and Paul and Steve Share. They had a UK subsidiary based in Leicester. They were exhibitors of E3 2004 [6] 2005 [7] and 2006 [8] and were located in De Pinckart 46g, 5674 CC Nuenen in the Netherlands.

Phoenix Games B.V. declared bankruptcy on August 3rd, 2010. On March 27th, 2012 the bankruptcy was suspended due to a lack of income. [9]

Phoenix Games LTD

Phoenix Games LTD is still an active registered company in the UK located at 48 Boundary Rd, Newark, Notts, United Kingdom, NG24 4AL. [10] Their original address was 53 Malcolm Way, Snaresbrook, London, E11 1PW.

Phoenix Games Asia

Phoenix Games Asia was located at 24 Sukhumvit, Soi 11, Unit 3B, Sukhumvit Road Bangkok 10110, Thailand, Klongtoey Nua, Wattana. It is unknown if this company still exists or if it was closed down.

Games

The company's titles took only around 3-5 months to develop and due to this, could be sold at really cheap prices on the market. The company released its games typically at a 6.99-12.99 GBP mark.

On 4th November 2002 they announced their partnership with Japanese company Altron, [11] and Italian developer NAPS [12] . In December 2002, Phoenix announced, they bought the publishing rights to "Dragons Lair", "Space Ace", "Who shot Johnny Rock?" and "Mad Dog McCree"from Digital Leisure in Canada. [13]

In 2003 it was reported that the company would be releasing 80 games for the PlayStation, Playstation 2 and PC that year. [14] In 2004 40 titles were announced. [15] In the same year they announced a "Super Budget Line" for PS2 and Xbox. [16]

In 2004 they went into a partnership with Data Design Interactive. [17]

In 2008 they announced to release 12 games for the Nintendo DS. [18]

In the first year they expected 4 to 5 million sold units worldwide. [19]

In early 2010 Phoenix Games re-released some of their games to German PC audiences. [20]

Due to the popularity of their games on the Internet and the sometimes small prints, many of their games are sort-after by collectors.

Distribution

In February 2003, Phoenix announced that their games will be distributed by "Just" in the UK [21] , Joag in Italy, SGDiffusion in France and N-Tec in Hungary. [22]

In Italy, the company DB-Line distributed the movies and games until 2007. [23]

On 22nd August 2003 they announced that "New Media Agency" will translate and distribute their games in Germany. [24] On 14th October 2003 they announced that Softwrap will be their Distributor in Europe [25]

Other

Paul Share also founded Midas Interactive in 1998.

Both before and after the group existed, other companies were formed with the same name. From 1978 to 1981, an American company named Phoenix Games produced games, best known for the game Bushido. In 2019, Klaas Kersing founded a gaming company in Germany with the same name. [26]

Known staff

In total 10 people worked with Phoenix Games. [27]

Phoenix Games B.V. (2002-2010)

Phoenix Games Ltd.

Phoenix Games Asia

No official employees are known.

List of movies published

Dingo Pictures movies

Other movies released

List of Games

Sony PlayStation

Sony PlayStation 2

PC

Nintendo DS

Nintendo Wii

PSP (unreleased)

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