April 8, 2002 - Rage, one of the UK's leading publishers and developers of entertainment software, today announces that it has entered into a number of individual agreements with three of the UK's leading independent game developers to produce conversions of two of its major licensed properties.
The first agreement is with Steel Monkeys, a leading Glasgow-based developer, to produce a version of Rage's officially licensed Rocky franchise to Nintendo GameCube. The company has also entered into an agreement with Virtucraft, a leading Lancashire-based developer, to produce a version of Rocky for Game Boy Advance. Both of these versions are currently scheduled for released in late 2002.
In addition, Rage has entered into an agreement with Fluid Studios, a leading Sheffield-based developer, to bring its aggressive inline skating title Rolling to the Game Boy Advance. Rolling is currently under development for Nintendo GameCube at Rage's Liverpool-based studio and is currently scheduled for release on both platforms in early 2003.
"We are delighted to have entered into agreements with three of the UK's leading independent developers as part of our on-going commitment to widen our catalogue with exciting and original titles," commented Feargus Carroll, Head of 3rd Party Development at Rage. "We believe that each of these individual titles will help Rage expand its overall publishing business and we are continuing to seek out additional, high quality titles to publish."
News source: Nintendo
