Europeans and their "special" beaches!!!

[lopez]

I'm just a nub here, but does Europe have major (brick & mortar) European branches of video game companies like Nintendo, NIS, Atlus, etc...?

[Surreal]

The only US publishers that have a major EU counterpart (that I can think of right now) are:

Sony
Nintendo
Microsoft
Konami
EA
Ubisoft
Square-Enix
Namco (I think they absorbed Atari of Europe but I'm not 100% sure)
Warner-Brothers Studios
Tecmo-Koei
THQ
505 Games
Capcom
D3
Sega
Take-Two

I'm sure there's more as well. We also have a few local publishers like Ghostlight and Rising Star Games, though NISA currently handle Eu releases (using other publishers to distribute their games) and Atlus don't seem to care about Europe.

[Judgment8]

... Nothing remarkable.

[hedges1001]

i disagree dood. ghostlight alone should be commended for their support to the JRPG with shadow hearts and the SMT digital devil saga series'. (lets not forget agarest either)

[hedges1001]

i disagree dood. ghostlight alone should be commended for their support to the JRPG with shadow hearts and the SMT digital devil saga series'. (lets not forget agarest either)

[miva2]

http://www.gamedevmap.com/index.php?que ... mit=Search
that should be about everything in Europe

Belgium only has 7 developers (wow, that's actually more than i thought xD), 1 mobile dev and no publishers
(with 1 of the developers whose last news message dates from 2007, and 2 who don't really make games)

we should get a NISEurope. who wants to help me =D

[hedges1001]

http://www.gamedevmap.com/index.php?query=europe&Submit=Search
that should be about everything in Europe

Belgium only has 7 developers (wow, that's actually more than i thought xD), 1 mobile dev and no publishers
(with 1 of the developers whose last news message dates from 2007, and 2 who don't really make games)

we should get a NISEurope. who wants to help me =D

can we hire prinnys

[Surreal]

Hire?

I would have thought it'd be a case of laying out bear traps and placing dirty mags on top of them.

[hedges1001]

point taken but save a few to throw at anyone who breaks an NDA

[RufusShinra]

at the end of the day we get shafted in the uk, on everything. last to get releases, special editions have an artwork book and maybe if we're lucky a soundtrack cd and the only major games retailers we have are GAME and gamestation and never usually both in one town.

[Pinkemon]

Spoiler:

Special beaches? Well, I dunno. My country seems to have nice beaches. The germans love coming here and digging holes in them.

Err, I mean...I'm sure there are some nice branches.

http://www.gamedevmap.com/index.php?que ... mit=Search

It looks like my country has quite a few. That's nice to know for when I am going to work in the game industry.