Atari Selling Studios To Avoid Bankruptcy 46
hammersuit writes "GameDaily Biz is reporting that Atari has put up five studios for sale in an effort to stave off bankruptcy once again. These include Shiny Studios (thought to be working on next-gen Earthworm Jim games) and Reflections (working on yet another sequel to the Driver series)."
Apparently the article went with the studio (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:Atari's Games (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Atari's Games (Score:2)
I shall shed a tear. While nothing they did recently was very interesting, their legacy of the arcade will live in my heart forever.
Besides the current company is a shadow of it's former self.
How many times did Atari die anyway?
Re:Atari's Games (Score:2)
Re:Atari's Games (Score:1)
Whoa Nellie! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Whoa Nellie! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Whoa Nellie! (Score:1)
All there stuff has been shite.. (cept maybe the accidental EWJ on the MD). Espically that OTT website
for some stupid reason im glad they are getting sold..
Re:Whoa Nellie! (Score:2, Insightful)
Anything left...? (Score:5, Interesting)
I left Atari nearly two years ago. From what I been hearing on the inside, production has moved from the west coast to New York to be with the corporate headquarters and closer to France, and QA may stay in Sunnyvale. There isn't much of a company left when you sell all your overpriced studios and the only products you have is the back catalog. I think someone will buy the back catalog, let the American shell company declare bankruptcy, and the French parent will be at square one with nothing to show for.
Re:Anything left...? (Score:3)
Good luck... (Score:2)
I've got an idea... (Score:2)
Re:I've got an idea... (Score:3, Insightful)
I personally don't care if it's Atari that publishes it or not (Obsidian isn't part of them anyways), but NWN2 better be released . . .
Re:I've got an idea... (Score:2)
Re:I've got an idea... (Score:2)
The thing is, as of right now, Atari/Infrogames is the only company with publishing rights to D&D based games. Unless something changes, Atari is still slated to be the publisher for NWN2.
Re:I've got an idea... (Score:1)
what do you mean by "Games worth playing?" you mean to tell me you don't like generic urban street racer 7? or Generic urban fighter 28? what about a 15th variation on a Dragonball game? Driv3r wasn't a game worth playing with all it's glitches and shitty controlls?
atleast they haven't gone down the EA route (well they have with dragonball) and just repackage the same game from last year throw in a
Let them Die (Score:2)
Shame (Score:2, Funny)
*lies
Driv3r (Score:2)
Re:Shame (Score:1)
Driver was at it's best when all you did was drive.
What goes around... (Score:3, Interesting)
I will do a little dance the day they die.
Re:What goes around... (Score:1)
Same here.
At this point I am not only worried because nwn 2 does not
support gnu/linux, I am worried because maybe we won't see nwn 2 _at all_.
Re:What goes around... (Score:1)
Re:What goes around... (Score:2)
The game was tested. The problem was that the developer didn't want to fix it and/or the game had to go out the door to meet the quarterly goals. A PC title would after all get a patch. Unless the same problem happens again: the developer doesn't want to fix it and/or the patch had to go out the door so other products can be worked on. The Temple of Elemental Evil, as evil as it was, got tested. No one wanted to list
Good riddance: D&D (Score:1)
Here's some advice to them (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Game Over.... (Score:3, Interesting)
Yar's Revenge (Score:1)
Re:Yar's Revenge (Score:1)
How fitting... (Score:1)
I like the idea of Atari, but asside from games they had nothing to do with but distribution (Neverwinter Nights), they haven't seemed to DO much in the last..... four years or so. That is, unless you count Firaxis as Atari, in which case, Atari still rocks.
Silly protections (Score:1)
Quite a few games I *bought*, I had to find a no-cd patch for them because they kept complaining I didn't put the CD in!
How many customers have they lost with that?
Atari is still around? (Score:2)
Atari has been dead for years... (Score:2)
Driver 1 Rocked (Score:2)
If the original hackers are still in Reflections are still there, I would buy just them and let them loose making the ultimate pure driving game.
To Reflections: Drop the stories and cut-scenes and shooting modes and make us the ultimate hackable cross platform MMO driving game. I guarantee millions of sales globally. Make it
Why, oh why is anyone surprised? (Score:1)
Re:Why, oh why is anyone surprised? (Score:2)
Could've been worst. Infogrames was supposed to publish Duke Nukem Forever but Bono got rid of the franchise after Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes for the Playstation. The developers couldn't explain why there was a hazy black-and-white picture of a dick on the porno theater screen. Bono ordered the picture and the "sleaze" mode out of the game since that aspect of Duke Nukem didn't match his "family values".