shawnsat's request split off to
that.
Melbourne House was a publisher, and Beam was a developer and it's subsidiary. IIRC Melbourne House wanted a stronger publisher and distributor for KKND, and EA indicated interest - and so it happened that this game has two international publishers. I can't say anything about EA's rights, but Abandonia goes the save way since the ESA incident - if a main publisher is ESA, the ESA rules flash into action.