SouthPeak Games
American video game publisher
SouthPeak Interactive Corporation, doing business as SouthPeak Games, was an American video game publisher based in Midlothian, Virginia. Founded on March 1, 1996, as a subsidiary of SAS Institute in Cary, North Carolina, it was sold and moved to Midlothian, Virginia in 2000, and became a public company in 2008. Also in 2008, the company acquired and closed Austin, Texas–based publisher Gamecock Media Group, and opened a separate digital distribution subsidiary 7Sixty in Grapevine, Texas in 2011. SouthPeak Games quietly disappeared from the public eye in July 2013.
History
Foundation and sale (1996–2005)
SouthPeak Games was founded as SouthPeak Interactive LLC on March 1, 1996, as a subsidiary of SAS Institute. Both companies were headquartered in Cary, North Carolina. SAS Institute's executive vice-president and chief technology officer, Armistead Sapp, was appointed as the new company's president. In 1997, SouthPeak Games signed a deal with Red Storm Entertainment that would grant them the exclusive license to distribute all of their upcoming titles, but this was terminated by Red Storm in April 2000. In March 1999, SouthPeak Games acquired the license to develop games based on the Wild Wild West film. Starting from September 27, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina–based creative shop Front Door acquired advertisement production rights for games published by SouthPeak for US$8 million.
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