DotEmu
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Industry | Video game industry |
Founded | 2007 |
Founders |
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Headquarters | Paris, France |
Key people | Cyrille Imbert (CEO) |
Website | dotemu.com |
DotEmu SAS is a French video game developer and publisher based in Paris, founded in 2007 by Xavier Liard and Romain Tisserand.
History
DotEmu was founded by Xavier Liard and Romain Tisserand in 2007.[1] The company's offices are located in Paris, close to the Folies Bergère.[1]
In April 2010, DotEmu launched a new digital distribution service that would sell games without digital rights management, akin to Good Old Games.[2]
In March 2017, DotEmu announced that their online store would be closed down on 1 June that year.[3] The company cited a too strong market competition and their focus shiting towards game development rather than game distribution.[4][5] In September 2017, DotEmu founders Liard and Tisserand sold their company an unnamed, private investor.[6] Subsequently, in October 2014, Cyrille Imbert became as DotEmu's chief executive officer.[1] Liard and Tisserand later founded a new video game publisher, Playdigious, in September 2015.[7]
In March 2018, DotEmu announced the creation of The Arcade Crew, a publishing label that would support small development teams.[8][9]
Games
References
- 1 2 3 Blanchard, Nicolas (30 May 2018). "DotEmu: l'avenir dans le rétro". Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (in French).
- ↑ "Birds Of A Feather: DotEmu Beta". rockpapershotgun.com. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ↑ "DotEmu is closing its online store, games will will{sic) be gone on June 1". pcgamer.com. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ↑ "DotEmu closing its own online store". rockpapershotgun.com. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ↑ "DotEmu's online store is closing". mcvuk.com. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ↑ "DotEmu Founders Sell Company and Form Playdigious, Announce First Project 'Pix the Cat' from Pastagames". toucharcade.com. 1 September 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ↑ "DotEmu founders launch new publisher Playdigious". gamesindustry.biz. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ↑ McAloon, Alissa. "Dotemu opens new publishing label to support small creative devs". gamasutra.com. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ↑ "Dotemu assembling The Arcade Crew". gamesindustry.biz. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ↑ "Windjammers 2 is coming to PC next year". pcgamer.com. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ↑ "Streets of Rage 4 is coming". polygon.com. Retrieved 10 September 2018.