Former Capcom executives Bill Gardner, Chris Jelinek, and Hanako Watanabe have established their own indepndent game publishing firm dubbed "OC-3 Entertainment" in Santa Clara, California. The company intends to bring high caliber independently developed games to a variety of gaming platforms, including PC, Playstation 2, Xbox, GameCube and WiFi/mobile through a unique game publishing model.
O-3 Entertainment will seek out titles from small and mid-size developers and will provide complete publishing functions to get them to market -- including sales and distribution, marketing and public relations, and more operational elements like replication, warehousing and shipping. O-3 intends to create a reputation for innovative, fun games and make its own brands easily identifiable to consumers and retailers alike.
"There are a lot of high quality games being left on the table because they aren't the next installment of last year's licensed blockbuster," remarked Gardner, CEO and President of the new O-3 Entertainment. "O-3 Entertainment's approach to publishing will lead to more diverse and creative choices for gamers at retail."
This sounds promising. It'll give us a chance to play a lot of those games that never make it stateside (although there's good reason for that for many of them).
Maybe they'll release more than one game every 2 years like WD does.
This doesn't sounds like a translation company at all to me. It sounds like somebody willing to distribute the US-developed games that fail to make it to market. Nothing in that article points to Japanese -> US translations.
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