> I assume Buka released a game called Echelon that they subsequently didn't support.
There was a very public row between Buka (publisher) and Madia (developer) over Echelon, which IIRC boiled down to Madia claiming that Buka never paid them a cent for the game, which they had developed at considerable expense out of their own pockets. I think that missed milestone dates may have been the justification for the lack of payment, but I don't remember everything about the dispute. The open letter that Madia wrote cast Buka in a very bad light, but it's very hard to know whether that was the whole truth or not.