Bethesda grabs Rage from EA

In an announcement that dropped into my inbox late on Monday afternoon Zenimax announced that publisher Bethesda has taken the IP Rage from EA. ID software, sold to media group ZeniMax earlier in the year has a history of great shooters including Doom, Quake etc had IP after the sale that was still tied to other publishers for marketing and release.  I would presume that this deal has come due to EA scaling down their operations in terms of staff and games releases in order to bring down costs.

Bethesda, one of ZeniMax’s subsiduary companies will now take over publishing duties for Rage.  The statement quotes “RAGE will be published by Bethesda Softworks, another ZeniMax subsidiary. As a result, Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) will not be involved in the sales and marketing of RAGE. The ongoing development of RAGE is unaffected by this development.