Paul Eibeler joins Southpeak Board of Directors

SouthPeak Interactive announced that former Take-Two president and CEO Paul Eibeler has joined its Board of Directors. Paul Eibeler is best known for his leadership at Take-Two Interactive. As President and CEO, Take-Two grew from $250 million in revenue to over $1.3 billion during his tenure. Key titles, selling upwards of a million copies, included the Grand Theft Auto franchise, Max Payne, Midnight Club, Sid Meir’s Civilization, BioShock, and the development of 2K sports including products for NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB.

Eibeler has held management positions at Impact International and Acclaim Entertainment prior to joining Take-Two. He was also a member of the Microsoft Xbox launch team. Presently he is chairman of Cokem International, a leading interactive software distribution company.

SouthPeak to publish Trine

SouthPeak Interactive will publish Trine for PC in North America later this year, the company announced today. In Trine, players work together to create and use objects to solve physics-based puzzles and defeat dangerous enemies. Set in a kingdom on the verge of chaos, a warrior, a wizard, and a thief are bound by a powerful artifact known as “the Trine”. Together, they must battle the forces of space, energy, and motion to put an end to the reign of a dark sorcerer.

Featuring three-player cooperative play, each character has specific talents to invent new solutions to puzzles and original ways to defeat enemies. The Wizard can use magic to create objects and new paths, the Thief can use her agility and accuracy to quickly deal with enemies, and the Warrior unleashes pure destruction everywhere he travels. Sounds a lot like a little game called The Lost Vikings..

Trine will be available on PCs in summer 2009.

SouthPeak Acquires Gamecock Media

Coming virtually out of nowhere this morning, software publisher SouthPeak Interactive, today announced that it has officially completed acquisition of Austin-based publisher Gamecock Media Group.

Gamecock, known as much for its PR stunts (rushing the Spike Video Game Awards stage and putting on a mock funeral for E3) as it is for its games, has published such titles as Dementium: The Ward for the DS, Insecticide on the DS and PC, and most recently Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball on Xbox LIVE Arcade. SouthPeak, meanwhile, is probably best known to gamers for Two Worlds and the upcoming DS release Ninjatown.

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Roogoo Coming to Wii, DS

SouthPeak Games today announced that its puzzle game Roogoo will be released on the Wii and the Nintendo DS later this year. Roogoo, which was previously released on Xbox LIVE Arcade, features DS & Wii cross-compatibility, all-new levels and game modes that take advantage of the unique features of the motion-sensitive Wii Remote and Nintendo DS touch screen and stylus. Owners of both the DS and Wii versions will have access to unique gameplay modes utilizing the DS as a controller for the Wii.

Roogoo will be available later this year.