JoWooD Entertainment AG

Moby ID: 1546

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August 16, 2011: The company's brands (including The Adventure Company) and intellectual properties become part of Nordic Games.
June 2011: Company and its subsidiaries are acquired by Nordic Games.
January 7, 2011: Company files for insolvency.
August 21, 2007: JoWood signs a 5-year deal with Simon & Schuster giving them license to develop games based on The Hardy Boys series of children's books.
March 1, 2007: JoWood Productions announces the formation of the JoWood Group which includes labels: JoWood, The Adventure Company, DreamCatcher, Silverline Software (previously DreamCatcher's US budget label) and G-Stars
January 15, 2007: JoWood signed a new co-publishing agreement with Koch Media, enabling both enterprises to produce high-end titles at shared costs. The first title expected to be published under the conditions of the new agreement was SpellForce 2: Dragon Storm.
January 10, 2007: Company signs an agreement with Pinnacle Software for distributing JoWood games in the United Kingdom.
December 6, 2006: The company launches the budget label G-Stars for PC, PS2 and DS games.
November 3, 2006: The company announces that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Canadian based video games publisher, DreamCatcher Interactive Inc.
January 1, 2006: JoWood Vienna is merged into the main JoWood company.
July 15, 2005: Company finalizes distribution agreements for various markets, including France (with Koch Media), Poland (with CD Projekt), Hungary and Slovakia (with the SeVeN M Group), and South Africa (with World Wide Entertainment (Pty) Ltd.)
May 30, 2005: The company shuts down the internal development studio Massive Development.
January 26, 2005: The company announces to close down two of its development studios: JoWood Ebensee and Wings Simulations.
August 11, 2003: As part of a re-aligning of the company, JoWood sells its Austrian distribution subsidiary Dynamic Systems to Koch Media. As part of the deal, JoWood products are exclusively distributed in Austria by Koch Media for the following three years.
March 31, 2003: Encore signs publishing agreement with JoWooD Productions Software AG an Austrian game developer and publisher, for the marketing and distribution of nine games throughout North America.
May 16, 2002: Company acquires the assets of Ravensburger Interactive, including Fishtank Interactive.
May 11, 2001: JoWooD opens an office in Tokyo, Japan. The new office will be responsible for marketing and sales of JoWooD titles in Japan and South Korea.
May 3, 2001: JoWooD Productions announces the take-over of German distributor Leisuresoft from Infogrames.
December 2000: The company acquires Massive Development GmbH.
June 2000: JoWooD Productions reaches a distribution agreement with Japanese game publisher SunSoft in which SunSoft would publish a range of JoWooD products in Japan.
May 2000: JoWooD acquires 100% of German game developer Wings Simulations GmbH.
May 2000: JoWooD Productions acquires 15% of the German software developer Media Publishing GmbH &Co KG.
2000: The company acquires NEON Software GmbH.
1995: JoWooD Productions founded by Andreas Tobler and Johann Schilcher in Austria.