T34 and Steel Fury publisher bankrupt

[ReM]

I just found out that the publisher for T34 vs Tiger and Steel Fury went bankrupt as of march 17 of this year.

This probably is not good news for support etc.....

[Sonarman]

Yes, this is a sad loss here, for once in these days of "casual gaming" was a publisher who still seemed interested in bringing us simulation games including Ship simulator, T34, Steel Fury and East India Company. Thankfully "East India Company" has now passed into the hands of Paradox Interactive so we may yet see it released in the not too distant future.

[Skybird]

Old news - hasn't this already been reported several weeks ago? I know for sure that simHQ's Magnum posted it here in one thread.

[ReM]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Old news - hasn't this already been reported several weeks ago? I know for sure that simHQ's Magnum posted it here in one thread.

How can he post it a couple of weeks ago when the effective date is march 17 2009. The staff were only informed wednesday.....

This is from a Dutch newspaper (telegraaf) from earlier today.

vr 20 mrt 2009, 10:52
Lighthouse Interactive is failliet


AMSTERDAM - De Nederlandse gamesuitgever Lighthouse Interactive is deze week failliet verklaard. Het bedrijf was één van de grootste gamesuitgevers in dit land, maar kon het hoofd niet boven water houden. Dat meldt Het Parool.

De krant meldt dat het personeel woensdag is ingelicht. Het Haarlemse bedrijf zal geen doorstart proberen te maken.
De reden voor het faillissement is niet bekend. "Onze prioriteit ligt nu bij het afwikkelen van de ontslagen en de huur van het bedrijfspand," aldus een woordvoerder.
Het bedrijf werd in 2005 opgericht en kwam vorig jaar in handen van het Canadese Silverbirch. Deze betaalde 2,5 miljoen euro voor de uitgever. Silverbirch doet het momenteel echter ook niet zo lekker: de handel in het aandeel is stilgelegd en vragen worden inmiddels al niet meer beantwoord.
Lighthouse bracht voornamelijk pc-spellen uit, maar kreeg vorig jaar ook licenties om games te mogen uitbrengen voor Nintendo- en Sony-consoles

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by ReM

How can he post it a couple of weeks ago when the effective date is march 17 2009. The staff were only informed wednesday.....

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=146727

He also had a thread on it at simHQ.

Note the date: late January.

[Lieste]

Without delving into this very deeply this could be that LHI entered receivership in January, and the formal termination of the company was declared in March. It hasn't come as a particular suprise though.

[ReM]

Case closed.....

[Lurchi]

As bad as this is - but maybe there is a chance now that the sourcecode can be released? I wonder what some modders can make of Steel Fury ...

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Lurchi

As bad as this is - but maybe there is a chance now that the sourcecode can be released? I wonder what some modders can make of Steel Fury ...

Lighthouse is not the developer. The developer has an addon almost ready (I am not sure what will become of it, though), and earlier voiced plans to work on a SF-2. Thex also already advertise a new wargame, which in parts seem to base on the graphics engine of SF, but I am not sure of that too. What it means is that I think chances are very slim, if even existent, that they already will release the sourcecode so early after release.Mmaybe in some years. Which means quite some years, probably - and even that is not certain.

So: don't wait for it.

Zvlad from the developement group is showing up here sometimes. Ask him about it.