October 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A | No Comments »
It has been silent around Player One for a long time but today's news is certainly big for them. The mobile games and TV publisher has been acquired by ROK Entertainment.
Player One has been operating on the mobile games market since 1999, focussing mostly on sports titles. At one point, they even created a dedicated label for their sports based activities.
Jonathan Kendrick, Chairman and CEO of ROK said “Mobile gaming is proving to be evermore popular worldwide, so we are delighted to add Player One to our portfolio of revenue-generating mobile products and we look forward very much to the successful deployment of their existing library of world-class mobile games as well as developing new games, going forward.”
“Player One Sports is dedicated to creating the best sport action games for mobile phones and ROK gives us a hugely enhanced sales pipeline to a massive mobile market worldwide.” Added Pete Russell of Player One.
