Swing entertainment media
Swing Entertainment Media AG
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legal form | Corporation |
founding | GmbH: 1998 AG: 2000 |
resolution | 2003 |
Reason for dissolution | insolvency |
Seat | Kaarst , Germany |
management | Ulrich Conrath ( CEO ), Marco Huesges, Thomas Brockhage ( COO ) |
Number of employees | 60 |
Branch | Software development |
The Swing Entertainment Media AG (own notation: ! SWING Entert @ inment Media AG ) was up to its bankruptcy in 2003, an international producer and marketer of consoles - and PC games based in Kaarst (in Dusseldorf ).
Company history
The company was founded as SWING! Entertainment Software GmbH and was listed on the Neuer Markt in February 2000 just two years later .
Even in the days of the GmbH, the company's sales were almost exclusively generated from the secondary and third-party marketing of PC games. With the inflow of capital from the IPO, the AG increasingly commissioned new developments and ports for consoles ( Dreamcast , PlayStation , PlayStation 2 , Xbox , GameCube , Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance ) as well as for the PC. Mismanagement, high bad debt losses in connection with the demise of the main distribution partner Virgin Interactive , the collapse of the Game Boy Advance market, and coordination problems with Ubisoft in the development of the MMORPG Shadowbane , which led to considerable delays in the start of the European version, ultimately resulted in of bankruptcy.
Holdings
- Conspiracy Entertainment Deutschland GmbH (50%, from 2002 100%)
- Midas Interactive Deutschland GmbH (100%)
Under the Conspiracy Entertainment Germany console reactions were mainly made while Midas Interactive Germany for the localization of games from the English parent company Interactive Midas Entertainment Ltd. was responsible. Both companies were based at the company's headquarters.
Developed games
- Schwarzenberg (PC, 2003 [unpublished] Developed by Radon Labs (now bought by Bigpoint ))
- Shadowbane (online PC, resold to Ubisoft in 2003 )
- Animaniacs - The Great Edgar Hunt (Xbox, PS2, GameCube [all versions of Flashpoint continued to be published in 2003])
- Animaniacs - Lights, Camera, Action (GBA [further published by Flashpoint in 2003])
- Ballermann - Das Spiel (PC, unreleased)
- Spec Ops 2: Omega Squad (03/2003, Dreamcast)
- Bang! Gunship Elite (01/2003, Dreamcast)
- The Amazing Virtual Sea-Monkeys (10/2002, PSone, GBA [unpublished])
- James Pond: code name RoboCod (08/2002, GBA)
- Pinky and the Brain: The Master Plan (08/2002, GBA)
- Enclave (07/2002 Xbox, PC [2003 resold to Atari ])
- Evolution 2 - Far Off Promise (06/2002, Dreamcast)
- Pacific Warriors - Air Combat Action (06/2002, PC)
- Tiny Toon Adventures: Wacky Stackers (04/2002, GBA)
- Feivel the mouse wanderer - The hidden treasure (02/2002, GBA)
- Monaco Grand Prix 2 Online (01/2002, Dreamcast)
- Flintstones family - Dino to the Rescue (01/2002, GBA [unpublished])
- The Feuerstein family - Bedrock is upside down (01/2002, GBA)
- Creatures (11/2001 GBA, 12/2001 PSone, GameCube [unpublished])
- Hidden Invasion (11/2001 PS2, 12/2002 GameCube)
- Tiny Toon Adventures: Dizzy on a candy hunt (11/2001, GBA)
- Freak Out (08/2001, PS2)
- Silkolene Honda Motocross Grand Prix (07/2001, PC)
- The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (06/2001 PS2, 12/2002 Dreamcast)
- Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Saves the Day (06/2001, GBC)
- In a Land Before Time (06/2001, GBC)
- Sky Surfer (06/2001, PS2)
- Silpheed - The Lost Chapter (05/2001, PS2)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (05/2001, Dreamcast)
- Gungriffon Blaze (04/2001, PS2)
- Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Bad Dream (04/2001, GBA)
- Football Quiz (03/2001, PC)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (02/2001, Dreamcast)
- Record of Lodoss War (12/2000, Dreamcast)
- Tom & Jerry (12/2000, GBC)
- Pro bodyboarding (11/2000, PC)
- Search And Rescue 2 (08/2000, PC)
- Ka'Roo (08/2000, PC)
- Super 1 Karting (06/2000, PC)
- Castrol Honda Superbike 2000 (06/2000, PC)
- B-Hunter (01/2000, PC)
- Riding Star (12/1999 PC, 10/2000 PSOne)
- Game Gallery: Millennium Edition (12/1999, Compilation, PC)
- " 2in1 Pack " compilations (1999, PC)
- " All In One " compilations (1999, PC)
- Game Gallery (12/1998, Compilation, PC)
- " 6 Pack " Compilations (1998, PC)
Web links
- Swing Entertainment Media AG at MobyGames (English)