Popular Video Game Publisher From The '90s Comes Back To Life

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Acclaim Leisure, identified for video games primarily based on common IPs, has relaunched to help indie builders and revitalize basic IPs.
The corporate is led by trade veterans and goals to deliver again iconic video games from the ’80s and ’90s, like Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam.
Acclaim’s revival comes at a time of nostalgia in leisure, offering a recent begin for a online game firm in 2025.

For many who’ve been enjoying video games for fairly a while now, you almost certainly have heard of Accaim Leisure, the prolific firm that launched video games primarily based on common IPs from comics, TV and films.

Whereas Acclaim closed down in 2004, citing Chapter 7 chapter because the case, the corporate is again!

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Acclaim Rises From The Ashes

In line with the press launch, Acclaim’s relaunch seeks to help indie builders and “reignite franchise classics.” Acclaim will present funding, advertising and PR help to indie builders to assist deliver their inventive visions to a broad viewers.

One of many key objectives of the corporate is to resurrect and revitalize its portfolio of basic IPs. The advisory board consists of trade veterans: Russell Binder at Striker Leisure, Mark Caplan at Ridge Companions and Jeff Jarrett at World Power Leisure (sure, this is similar Jeff Jarrett from the WWE, TNA).

Talking of Jarrett, he gave an announcement alongside the announcement, stating, “For greater than three many years, I’ve had the privilege to have been part of each the wrestling and gaming universes, and I am thrilled to now be a companion within the revival of Acclaim, an iconic writer identified for releasing a number of the most legendary video games of the ‘80s and ‘90s. From my early involvement with the writer’s hit 16-bit WWF titles to my expertise serving to form the TNA Wrestling sequence, which spawned the primary online game wrestler to turn into a full-time roster member within the Squared Circle, I’ve seen firsthand the kind of influence nice video games can have on gamers and followers. Resurrecting Acclaim is a chance to impart the identical diploma of ardour and like to a brand new era, and I am excited to be concerned.”

Heading the corporate can be video games trade veteran Alex Josef, who will act as CEO of Acclaim. Josef brings greater than 20 years of expertise advertising and publishing a whole bunch of video games on PC, cellular and consoles.

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Acclaim was based in 1987, and was one of the prolific online game firms within the ’80s and ’90s. Acclaim introduced Mortal Kombat, Turok, NBA Jam to residence consoles, and a ton of licensed video games as effectively.

Whereas not every part Acclaim pushed out was a gem (many of the licensed stuff was simply terrible from what I keep in mind), the corporate did discover success with its WWF video games and different respectable licensed merchandise. The final sport Acclaim launched was Showdown: Legends of Wrestling on the PS2 and Xbox in 2004, which was developed by Acclaim Studios Austin (previously often called Iguana Leisure).

With nostalgia enjoying an enormous consider leisure nowadays, now could be the perfect time to relaunch the corporate. On the very least, it is refreshing to see a online game firm begin in 2025 moderately than see another one close down or be hit with massive layoffs.