NewKidCo

NewKidCo
Company typeChildren's video game
Publisher
Founded1997
Defunct2005
FateAcquired
ProductsVideo game
OwnerAlpha Software
SoftQuad Software (acquired)

NewKidCo International Inc. (TSE:NKC; OTC BB: NKCIF)[1] was an American video game publisher of children's titles based on popular licensed characters, for Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft consoles. It went out of business in 2005.

The publisher was acquired by Alpha Software which then was acquired by SoftQuad Software and subsequently, SoftQuad was renamed to NewKidCo.[2][3]

Initially NewKidCo had subsidiary offices in Burlington, Massachusetts and Midtown Manhattan, New York City.[4] At a later point, it was headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, with its only office being there.[5]

NewKidCo had a partnership with Canadian animation studio CinéGroupe to make video games based on Tom and Jerry and Dora the Explorer. Circa 2003, two of NewKidCo's properties, Winnie the Pooh and Dora the Explorer, were sold to Gotham Games.

Most of their games were rated E for everyone, with the exception of Tom and Jerry in War of the Whiskers, which is rated T for teen due to its excessive yet cartoony violence.

In July 2000, Ubi Soft signed a publishing deal with the company to allow them to release the company's titles in PAL region territories.[6]

  1. ^ "About NewKidCo International Inc." NewKidCo. December 29, 2001. Retrieved on July 28, 2010.
  2. ^ "SoftQuad International Explores Strategic Alternatives for Web Tools Unit - Press Centre". Xml.coverpages.org. 1998-06-10. Retrieved 2013-09-21.
  3. ^ "Business Wire: SoftQuad International Inc. Announces Special Meeting of Shareholders". 15 May 2005. Archived from the original on 15 May 2005. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  4. ^ "Corporate Directory." NewKidCo. October 7, 1999. Retrieved on July 27, 2010.
  5. ^ "Corporate Directory." NewKidCo. January 4, 2002. Retrieved on July 27, 2010.
  6. ^ "Ubi Soft to take NewKidCo's Video Games to Kids Around the World".