Sports management developer Sports Interactive and German-based OOTP Developments have announced that they are to go their separate ways, with immediate effect.

One developer doesn't seem enough as SEGA also announced today that it has acquired Sports Interactive, creators behind the hugely successful Football Manager series - which with only two titles from the franchise released so far, has sold in excess of 1.5 million copies and became the second fastest selling PC game of all time in the UK.

Sports Interactive are proud to announce that Out of the Park Baseball Manager 2006 is to officially become part of the company’s growing portfolio when it is released in Spring 2006.

SEGA of America today announced that it will publish Sports Interactive's Worldwide Soccer Manager and NHL Eastside Hockey Manager for PC and Mac in North America. Read more for details ..

Sports Interactive and Eidos today announce that they have mutually decided to end their longstanding relationship in relation to the development of the Championship Manager series of computer games. The two companies will work together on Championship Manager: Season 03/04, which will be the last game in the series to be developed by Sports Interactive. The game will be released by Eidos in the fourth quarter of this calendar year.

Sports Interactive, developer of the phenomenally successful Championship Manager series, has announced its first title based outside the world of football.

Sports Interactive must be Bollinger’s best customer at the moment, as the team has cause to celebrate yet again. The company behind the phenomenally successful Championship Manager series of football management simulations has been listed at number 22 in this year’s The Sunday Times ARM Tech Track 100 (published yesterday) – some 26 places ahead of any other games company listed.