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Defunct American video game publisher
NewKidCo
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Company type
| Children's video game
Publisher
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Founded
| 1997
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Defunct
| 2005
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Fate
| Acquired
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Products
| Video game
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Owner
| Alpha Software
SoftQuad Software
(acquired)
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NewKidCo International Inc.
(
TSE
:NKC;
OTC BB
: NKCIF)
[1]
was an American
video game publisher
of children's titles based on popular licensed characters, for
Sony
,
Nintendo
and
Microsoft
consoles. It went out of business in 2005.
The publisher was acquired by Alpha Software which then was acquired by
SoftQuad Software
and subsequently, SoftQuad was renamed to NewKidCo.
[2]
[3]
Initially NewKidCo had subsidiary offices in
Burlington, Massachusetts
and
Midtown Manhattan
,
New York City
.
[4]
At a later point, it was headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, with its only office being there.
[5]
NewKidCo had a partnership with Canadian animation studio
CineGroupe
to make video games based on
Tom and Jerry
and
Dora the Explorer
. Circa 2003, two of NewKidCo's properties,
Winnie the Pooh
and
Dora the Explorer
, were sold to
Gotham Games
.
Most of their games were rated E for everyone, with the exception of
Tom and Jerry in War of the Whiskers
, which is rated T for teen due to its excessive yet cartoony violence.
In July 2000,
Ubi Soft
signed a publishing deal with the company to allow them to release the company's titles in PAL region territories.
[6]
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