As the crucial fourth quarter video games sale cycle swings into action, homegrown UK games publisher Oxygen Games this week entered administration (via Gamesindustry.biz).
But on Tuesday the remains of the business were bought out by distribution firm OG International, headed by former Oxygen boss Jim Scott.
The company’s 13 staff will join OGI, which will immediately begin selling Oxygen’s games and IP, as MCV.co.uk reports. The company makes several sports-based and kid-friendly console games as well as Nintendo Wii titles Cate West: The Vanishing Files which is scheduled for release this month and Safar’wii, which is due out in January.
Oxygen’s struggles are a sad reflection of the state of the once proud UK games industry, which as Christmas draws near can perhaps boast only Codemasters, makers of the Colin McRae Rally series, as a genuine international force. Tomb Raider maker Eidos still has a UK base, but its Manchester office was shut in January before the firm was sold for £84.3 million in March to Japanese games giant Square Enix.

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