Nacon SA

Company type	Public
Traded as	Euronext Paris: NACON CAC Small
Industry	Video games
Founded	17 February 1981; 44 years ago (1981-02-17)
Headquarters	Lesquin , France
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Alain Falc (CEO, Chairman)
Owners	Bigben Group (76.7%) Bpifrance (2.1%)
Number of employees	430 (2020)
Divisions	Nacon Game Publishing Nacon Studio Milan
Subsidiaries	Big Ant Studios Crea-ture Studios Cyanide Daedalic Entertainment Eko Software Ishtar Games Kylotonn Midgar Studio RaceWard Studio Spiders
Website	nacongaming.comcorporate.nacongaming.com

Nacon SA (formerlyBigben Interactive SA) is a Frenchvideo game publisher,holdings company and gaming peripherals manufacturer based inLesquin. It designs and distributes gaming accessories, and publishes and distributes video games for various platforms.^[1][2] In 2020, Bigben Group was consolidated to form Nacon.^[3]

In 2001, the company reached an agreement withSega to distribute the remaining stock of Sega'sDreamcast consoles, accessories and software across Europe.^[4] In December 2016, three years afterAtari's initial bankruptcy sale, Atari sold theTest Drive franchise to Bigben Interactive.^[5] TheV-Rally series was also sold to Bigben Interactive around this time without a formal announcement.^[6]Through 2020, Bigben Interactive was subsidiary of the Bigben Group, which also oversaw Nacon, its video game accessory company. On 11 February 2020, the parent company announced they were merging Bigben Interactive and Nacon into a single entity to go as Nacon.^[7] In January 2021, Nacon announced that it had acquired Australian video game developerBig Ant Studios.^[8] On 1 March 2021, video game developerFrogwares alleged Nacon illegally hacked and published a pirated version of their game,The Sinking City, onSteam in February 2021 during an ongoing distribution dispute between the two companies.^[9][10] In August 2021, Nacon acquired Crea-ture Studios.^[11] In October 2021, Nacon acquired Ishtar Games.^[12] In February 2022, Nacon acquired Midgar Studio.^[13] Nacon announced its intent to acquireDaedalic Entertainment for an estimated$60 million in February 2022, with the deal concluding in April 2022.^[14][15] In May 2022 Nacon announced the formation of Nacon Studio Milan, encompassing its October 2020 acquisition RaceWard Studio,^[16] as well as other yet to be named studios.^[17] in 2020, Nacon acquired rig gaming, a headset company.^[18]

The rights for the following titles are disputed, withFrogwares claiming Nacon only owns the distribution rights:^[72]

"Enquête - Nacon-Frogwares : décryptage d'un conflit larvé devenu guerre ouverte" [Investigation - Nacon-Frogwares: deciphering a latent conflict that became an open war].gamekult.com (in French). 20 April 2021.

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