Hudson May Continue as a Brand

Then it's like RCA, not it's own brand, but just a brand name. In this case, name, & IPs I suppose. Edit: I don't feel too bad now, selling Classic Nes Series Bomberman for cheap weeks back, now. Edit #2: Great that a vintage co., or @ least it's Ips, won't die.

Maybe only the "Soft" will dissolve off of their name

Insta-resurrection, nice. Please don't be a Zombie now, Hudson.

@LTD Or a ZomBee?
/rimshot

More Adventure Island!!

Maybe Konami thought just killing off the "studio" would bring bad press, & decided to keep Hudson alive, sorta? Or perhaps this was always their intent? Whatever the case, it's good now.

Hudson games have never really interested me apart from that Omega five for 3DS that they cancelled. I hope they revive it.

:')

This isn't as bad as I thought it would BEE. jajaja

Perhaps I should download Dungeon Explorer in memory of good old Hudson. I fear now that Konami holds the rights to Hudson games will never see any of their old games again.

YAY!

I'll be happy if Hudson revives Bomberman 3DS and officially quits making Tetris. I do love Tetris, but not from the hands of Hudson.

Next thing they should make is a 3D shooting watch. And Tetris party is a great game.

I think they are already an brand

I hope the Hudson name stays around. But it's still sad that things went the way they went. Ah well we can't change anything about it, sadly!

Produced by Hudson
Published by Konami.

Sounds good, and it means in a future Bomberman that Solid Snake,Simon Belmont, and Frogger have a chance at being characters.

Great!!! I was thinking to download all VC catalog before it desappears.

Prediction A lot of people will use a bee reference. On the previous entry of this topic i even accidentally put bee instead of be, relalized my mistake but didn't correct it. Maybe Hudson will beecome a better group.

Rare was the most awesome 3rd-party dev back in the N64 days. Then Crap-O-Soft bought them out and ruined their good name. A couple years later and they were releasing crappy ports and remakes of formerly brilliant IP on Xbox. Never got back their former glory as a developer. EA's also ruined a lot of brilliant small developers by buying them out as well. Hopefully, a similar fiasco doesn't happen to Hudson. It would be a disaster to have their wonderful retro games catalogue pulled off VC and ported to Xbox or PSN, only to be ruined with HD graphics and other gimmicky enhancements...

@Capt_N, things like this aren't personal, they are all business. Konami bought Hudson Soft but it was still going under, solution? Dissolve the company. But now it looks like they have decided to keep Hudson as a, smaller than before, part of Konami. What does this mean? Hudson can still make games and have a smaller risk of going under.

Nintendo HURRY UP AND Acquire THEM NOW!!! Mario Party will RISE AGAIN

without Hudson theres no Mario Party =p

Didn't even know about Hudson until they announced its demise. Can't be a big loss to humanity.

@23 When were you born, sir?

as long as i get my mario partys and bombermen i'm fine

@StarDust While good developers are ruined by large companies sometimes, Rare was already starting to flop before Microsoft got them. Hudson hasn't been doing fantastically either recently. Mario Party DS is good, haven't seen any other new Hudson games I like.

Is Hudson doing any work with Mario Party 9? I haven't seen anything saying who actually is making it. I would love to see it be a first party series. I enjoy the N64 ones but the gamecube ones start to lose their charm and MP8 just doesn't look fun at all. MPDS is fun though but it has simpler stages like the N64 ones while having creative minigames. I also have somebody to play it with. I wouldn't recommend it if you don't.