He said, "With Penny Arcade, yes, a lot of people knew about it, but we just couldn't transition those people into buyers." Most companies would be happy with the performance, but we are not." Critically, it was well-received, but commercially, from our perspective.
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The Penny Arcade series didn't sell as well as we would have liked. "We know we're very good at making games. We looked at very seriously," said Ian Wilkinson CEO of Hothead. "The company has had experience publishing the Penny Arcade series. Originally, Hothead had planned on self-publishing DeathSpank. Teaming up with a major company like EA was partially brought about after Hothead's series of games based on the Penny Arcade webcomic performed under commercial expectations. Hothead is promising that DeathSpank will deliver to gamers the quirky humor from the Monkey Island series in an original, loot-collecting action RPG package. Hothead's DeathSpank, due later this year, comes from the mind of Ron Gilbert, designer for the adventure game Secret of Monkey Island. We're not going to necessarily limit ourselves because of distribution mechanisms," said EAP business development outreach director Jamil Moledina in a phone interview. "Our charter has always been to work with the best talent in the games industry.
EAP is bringing both games to Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network, EAP announced Thursday, while it will also release Shank on PC. Now, EA Partners is co-publishing digitally-distributed games for the first time with the signing of Hothead Games and Ron Gilbert's " Diablo meets Monkey Island" title DeathSpank, and Klei Entertainment's 2D beat 'em up Shank, which is an Independent Games Festival 2010 finalist. Electronic Arts' co-publishing arm EA Partners is best known for teaming up with third-party developers on major packaged game releases, such as Harmonix's The Beatles: Rock Band, Valve's Left 4 Dead and Double Fine's Brutal Legend.
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