SouthPeak Games
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| Traded as | OTC Pink: |
| Industry | Video game industry |
| Fate | Dissolved |
| Founded | March 1, 1996 in Cary, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Defunct | July 2013 |
| Headquarters | Midlothian, Virginia, U.S. |
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SouthPeak Interactive Corporation, doing business as SouthPeak Games, was an American video game publisher based in Midlothian, Virginia. Founded on March 1, 1996, as a subsidiary of SAS Institute in Cary, North Carolina, it was sold and moved to Midlothian, Virginia in 2000, and became a public company in 2008. Also in 2008, the company acquired and closed Austin, Texas-based publisher Gamecock Media Group, and opened a separate digital distribution subsidiary 7Sixty in Grapevine, Texas in 2011. SouthPeak Games quietly ceased from the public eye in July 2013.
SouthPeak Games was founded as SouthPeak Interactive LLC on March 1, 1996, as a subsidiary of SAS Institute, both headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, with SAS Institute executive vice president and chief technology officer Armistead Sapp appointed as President. In 1997, SouthPeak Games signed a deal with Red Storm Entertainment that would grant them the exclusive license to distribute all of their upcoming titles, which was, however, terminated by Red Storm Entertainment in April 2000. In March 1999, SouthPeak Games acquired the license to develop games based on the Wild Wild West film. Starting from September 27, 1999, Raleigh, North Carolina-based creative shop Front Door acquired advertisement production rights for games published by SouthPeak Games for US$8 million. On October 16, 2000, SAS Institute sold SouthPeak Games to Midlothian, Virginia-based privately held company Terry Phillips Sales, Inc., owned by brothers Terry Marshall and Gregory Robert Phillips, for US$4.5 million, making Terry Phillips the new director of SouthPeak Games. As result of the sale, all assets related to SouthPeak Games were moved the Midlothian location, while all staff at the Cary location were re-employed directly by SAS Institute. The company in its new location was legally registered as SouthPeak Interactive, L.L.C. on October 19, 2000. In August 2005, Melanie Mroz was appointed executive vice president of SouthPeak Games.
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