Gamecock Media Group

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Gamecock Media Group

Type	Video Game Publisher
Founded	February 2007
Headquarters	Austin, Texas, USA
Area served	North America
Key people	Mike Wilson, Harry Miller, Rick Stults
Industry	Video game industry
Products	video games
Website	http://www.gamecockmedia.com/

Gamecock Media Group is an Austin, Texas-based video game publisher founded by video game industry veterans Mike Wilson, Harry Miller and Rick Stults who all launched Gathering of Developers. The publisher claims to use a more hands-off approach and allows developers to keep their own intellectual property. [1]

[edit] Controversy

During the 2007 Spike Videogame Award, Gamecock appeared an rushed the stage as Ken Levine was about to take the stage to give an acceptance speech for winning the Game of the Year award for Bioshock. The time Gamecock spent on stage cut into the time Ken Levine was supposed to speak, as a result he didn't get to say anything. On December 11th Mike Wison (who cofounded the company) sent an apology out stating that "The award acceptance they interrupted was the LAST one we would've wanted to interrupt , ("most addictive game fueled by mountain dew" would have been a wonderful choice) as we have the utmost respect and love for Bioshock and all who were involved in it, and it totally sucks that Ken Levine didn't get to speak after making such a fantastic game." [2]