About this time last year the PC-video game trade group the Entertainment Software Association started losing members at a huge rateActivision and Vivendi Games (now merged as Activision Blizzard) both left the group, followed in the coming months by LucasArts, NCsoft, id Software, Crave Entertainment and Midway (although with the latter two companies their financial troubles were partly to blame).

While the ESA naturally doesn't issue press releases when members leave their group, they do indeed sent out word when they recruit a new memberSuch is the case today with the announcement that Southpeak Interactive (also known as Southpeak Games) has joined the ESAThe publisher has grown quickly in the few years since its launch and grew even more last fall with the acquisition of Gamecock (ironically a publisher that frequently mocked and made fun of the ESA).