October 9, 2008
Slitherine
Unveils 2009 Line Up at the Tower of London
Award winning videogame publisher
Slitherine revealed its 2009 line up and its expanded self-publishing capability
at a partner’s conference this week
The conference included
presentations by Slitherine’s major licensors and partners for the development
of videogames in the history genre: A&E Television Networks, with the HISTORY
and MILITARY HISTORY brands, Scholastic with Horrible Histories and development
partner BBC .
Under the HISTORY brand, Slitherine
will be publishing HISTORY Great Battles of the Middle Ages, the sequel to chart
hit, The History Channel Great Battles of Rome, HISTORY Great Battles of the
Middle Ages will release next spring on next generation platforms and another
release, HISTORY Great Empires Pharaohs will launch on handheld devices this
autumn.
Under the MILITARY HISTORY brand two
titles will be released in the Commander series for handhelds: MILITARY HISTORY
Commander Europe at War in February and MILITARY HISTORY Napoleon Europe at War
to follow later in the year.
The Horrible Histories license will
see a first product released in May, targeting for the first time a younger and
more casual audience. Horrible Histories The Ruthless Romans will be releasing
for consoles and PC alongside a new live-action TV series on BBC television.
The first license agreement between
Slitherine and the BBC, for the Battlefield Academy game, will be releasing for
handheld platforms towards the end of next year. This ambitious project will see
an innovative gameplay system merged with highly researched historical content
to attract a wide and diverse audience.
“We’ve been working on this project
for well over a year now and our plan has always been to put together a line-up
based on our core values with the intention of creating attractive, fun-to-play
games based on historical content,” said JD McNeil, Business Development
Director of Slitherine. “We are proud of what we have achieved so far, and this
is only our first steps into the publishing arena. We are confident that with
these quality products we can satisfy our players and find our space in this
highly competitive arena. What we are certain of is that we have found an area
of the market where we know we have the right skills to compete.”
Slitherine will be disclosing more
information on each of these titles over the coming months, including a major
presentation by Marketing Director Marco Minoli at the Handheld Learning
Conference in London, on the 13th of October, where Slitherine are major
Sponsors. Further information will be made available at GC Lyon, starting on the
November 5th.