What the fuckhttps://www.gamesindustry.biz/thunderful-group-shareholders-approve-53-million-atari-acquisition
>>719373791Atari bought the steamworld dig guys?
>>719373791>Atari also recently acquired the IP rights to five Ubisoft titles: Cold Fear, I Am Alive, Child of Eden, Grow Home, and its sequel, Grow Up.Played a pirated copy of Cold Fear, I got to the final boss and never beat him. If CF comes to GOG I'll buy a copy.
>>719373791Where did Atari find such a sugar daddy out of nowhere? And what is his early history?
>>719374095Ataris been selling a lot of consoles now too
>>719374095Wade Rosen created Ziggurat Interactive.
>>719374008YeahAnd I think super meat boys studio
>>719374090I wish they bought rayman
>>719374186>rosenwow, he knew without checking. he is... the one
>>719374338The head tard of atari
How can Atari afford to do that when they own Nightdive and that studio is constantly on the brink of bankruptcy and dissolving and has awful patch turnaround times?>>719374090I've literally never heard of any of these games.
>>719373791>go woke go bro-ac-ACK
>The division was sold in two stages, the Dutch division was sold to Softmachine in 1997, while the French division including all remaining subsidiaries, stakes and the entire CD-i library, was sold to Infogrames in August 1997, with the deal closing shortly afterwards.Tetris CD-i re-release when?
we're so back
>>719373791How the actual fuck is Atari still even alive?Haven't they torpedoed damn near every single source of revenue in the last decade? When was their last game that was even worth half a damn? I guess I can respect that roach-like quality that they have.
>>719374848Atari is only a name at this point.
>Atari buys MobyGames, essentially the largest existing vidya DB>MobyGames immediately goes full kike mode afterwardFUCK Atari, man.
Why even big these franchises
Buy deus ex
>>719374848It's not Atari. None of the people that made Atari what it is still exist there. It's a French hedge fund wearing the corpse of Atari. The actual company is Infogrames. Embracer Group is the same idea it's a hedge fund wearing THQ's corpse calling it THQ Nordic.
>>719375316Dude, the French incarnation has been the longest lasting Atari incarnation of them all.
>>719373791how is atari still relevant even
>>719375420It is not. They've never reached the highs they had during the 70s.
>>719374848Atari isn't Atari, it's Infogrames, an old french company which was mostly making its money with licensed video games which is why I literally can't think of a single IP they own outside of Bubsy and Warlords. They were also the publisher of the original Neverwinter Nights.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_SA
>>719374090>Cold Fearis on steam
>>719375547He didn't mention Steam, though.
>>719373791Imaging having your IPs being bought by fucking Atari.I hope it was worth it Ubisoft.
>>719375573i know i was just letting him know he can still acquire a legal copy when he wants.
>>719374528Nightdive made 5 million dollars on system shock for steam
>>719374090>Cold FearThat franchise has the potential to be good on the level of Dead Space or RE. Hppe they do something with it.
>>719374528
>>719375721It never had any potential, that's why virtually everyone ultimately called it mediocre back when it came out. Swaying ship mechanic is basically its only redeeming quality.
>>719375939Maybe it can be redeemed
bring back the old infogrames and the Driver series
>>719375939>Swaying ship mechanic is basically its only redeeming quality.Thus the potential.
>>719376067They revived the Infogrames brand.https://www.gamesindustry.biz/atari-relaunches-infogrames-acquires-totally-reliable-delivery-serviceHowever, the Driver series is probably not cheap, and also not something Ubisoft is interested in selling at all.
>>719375547>>719375573Nightdive studios has an engine and porting method that acts as a middle man for these games. You may wonder why they do games like Turok or Blood, that have PC versions already? It's because they want them on the Switch and Playstation, where most of their sales are. So I can fully epect Night dive to do a new port of Cold Fear.
>>719376067Didn't Driv3r kill the series for good?
>>719374090Child Of Eden looks cool. So I am slightly interested.
>>719376067That already came back
>$130+ for fifty year old hardware and games from gen 2 gamingWho is buying this?
>>719373791Wow, AC Shadows did so well Ubi-soft is selling ips like it's a yard sale just like all succesful companies do. Go Woke Go Broke
>somehow Atari returnedI know it is just a marketing thingBut I feel like with the old brands coming back marks a chance of the attitude of the people in charge
>>719373791The new Embracer group I guess
>>719373791I saw "Child of" and I thought it was gonna be Child of Light
>>719374273>bought RaymanDo you trust Atari with Rayman?Like it or not, Ubisoft Montpellier are still the best devs for Rayman period
>>719374803How so? Atari died decades ago.
>>719378276I refunded child of light when i learnt that they had the loli grow up.
>>719374090Any particular reason why those were bought out?Were they just cheap?Any plans beyond re-release profits?
>>719378614Ubishit needed money.
>>719378724Yeah I know but I'm just curious about the broader specifics about why those games in particular
>>719378339because they don't release games kek
>>719378339LOL
>>719378724No they don'tThe newest ass creed saved Ubisoft, they are currently the most valuable company on earth
>>719378614It just seems weird to me, none of those IPs are particularly popular, you would be better creating new ones imo
>>719378907Nah it sold so bad they have to sell most of their ips.
>>719373791vastly overpaying for something thats made absolute dogshit games
>>719374338A true camper doesn't need to look up the early history Jimbo. He goes by pure animal instinct.
>>719378907
>>719374090these arent even worth 1 million
>>719378907>The newest ass creed saved Ubisoft, they are currently the most valuable company on earthIs that what they're telling the frog and Singaporean governments now to stop their lifelines from getting the chop?
>>719374090I actually liked Grow Home and Grow Up, kind of sad Ubisoft gives so little of a shit about it they threw it at Atari
>>719374090>could buy ObsCure, a knock-off series that at least was somewhat popular and known at the time>buys fucking Cold Fear instead???
>>719374803Night fever night fever we know how to do it!
>>719374090Why those games in particular?? Whats worth the money in buying rights to games nobody cares about?? You could just make a new IP
>>719373791Well, at least they have all that DEI money. We may be nearly bankrupt, but Assassin's Creed is on the right side of fictional history, chuds.
>>719378907If you consider becoming Tencent's bitch as being "the most valuable company on earth", then I don't know what to tell you.
>>719380179The suits would revive the shittiest forgotten literally who series because there's 0.001% less chance to fail with existing property rather than risk making a new IP.
>>719374939>>MobyGames immediately goes full kike mode afterwardelaborate
>>719381532NTA. They started charging money to download fucking screenshots. With that said, I got MobyPlus for my contributions to the database, so I can't complain.
They own Nightdive and Digital Eclipse. They are positioning themselves as a retro gaming/remaster company. They also bought the Intellivision name.
>>719374095Thudnerful is Swedish based and tied to the same shady Nordic funding Embracer has. Probably lots of laundered money from belt & road deals with china.
>>719381532Non-users are now limited to mere 5 pages of search results. Regular users are also limited to 20 pages.Images are now in even lower resolution (800px high max).Users were allowed to request an API key, they revoked that and now it's available only if you pay.Constant MobyPlus shilling fucking everywhere.Search function is still shit despite everything.Of course, you could get that for free if you manage to score six gorillion Moby points for your contributions in a single year, but would anyone really want to now?
>>719382271>Of course, you could get that for free if you manage to score six gorillion Moby points for your contributions in a single yearIt's just 480 points. I have 1000 points in the last year. It's not that much.
>>719374090the moving boat gimmick was cool and had atmosphere, don't really remember anything else about it but that was well done at least.
>>719382389They must have reworked it then, I do remember it being a pretty high number in a single year specifically.>480 pointsThat's just for one month though.
>>719382940>That's just for one month though.No, it isn't.>The second update this week is about MobyPlus. Specifically, some of you woke up today with a surprise complimentary subscription. We've always offered this as a perk to our most dedicated contributors, and we wanted it to be more accessible, so we've made it easier to earn free access: if you have earned 480 points in the past year, you'll automatically unlock a complimentary subscription, no extra action needed, and you'll keep it as long as you continue to meet the requirements.https://www.mobygames.com/forum/3/thread/271224/moby-v20250710/You can check if you keep the "benefits" at any point by browsing your profile.This random mod I chose because it happened to be one of the top contributors keeps the MobyPlus membership because all staff members get it for free.
>>719383163>Earn 480 points in the past year Get 1 month of MobyPlus FREE>Earn 40,000 points total Get MobyPlus FREE for lifehttps://www.mobygames.com/mobyplus/ Did they forget to update this or they're deliberately offering disinfo?
>>719383321No idea. At least on my end, I still have it more than a month after its implementation, with the whale logo and everything on my profile.
Not really confident about Atari but at least they will revive those names once, which is more than what Ubi has done with them in years (decades?).
>>719374638Is it not in Tetris Forever?
>>719382271Market economy working as intended.Economic forces direct people to implement working solutions. The need to push the line up leads organically to constant need of improvement and optimization of services, improving the lives of you, the consumer, infinitely upwards.You are not just simply paying more and getting less.
>>719374090>purchase the rights to all these completely forgotten Ubisoft titles>None of them are Red Steel, which could have potentially led to a VR version of the second game.Weak. Grow Home was neat, though.
"Atari is addicted to failure.">*snnnnnnrrrrrrrttttttrr~!*>WOOOOOOOOOOO>Look at all these games we're acquiring, man!>ATARI is acquiring, baybeeeeeee!!! STAYIN' ALIVE!>"sir, these are all forgotten ips that were forgotten because they have literally zero modern brand value">WOOOOOOOOOOOOO>"We can't just keep flipping them into low effort shovelware forever">WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Tommy Tallarico in shambles
>>719373791Can they sell splinter cell to someone competent? Who deserves to own splinter cell /v/?
>>719385713Give it back.
>>719375316>>719375513Infogrames mentioned, posting theme songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=522bVV-82qQ
>>719374090Grow Home and Grow Up are mostly fondly remembered, Child of Eden is one of those artsy games, Cold Fear is a cult classicBut does literally anyone give a single shit about I Am Alive? A brown and gritty PS3/360 zombie survival game that felt generic even back in 2012.
Bubsy 4D is projected to make a billion dollars in memes. Straight up Bubsin'. It's time to buy buy buy! They have the fuck you Bubsy money. Well... They'll have the Bubsy money. Soon. For sure.It's Bubsin' time.
>>719386138I Am Alive is one of those games that were immediately forgotten after release. Shit makes no sense.
>>719374090>>719380179Wasn't I Am Alive a famously unfinished game that had a bunch of stuff out out of it, and turned into a semi small, indie title? I bet there's probably some interesting stuff hidden in the assets of it.
>>719374090Weird choices for purchases. 4 of those games on steam now weren't big hits. Probably only bought it because they were cheap. They either want to make a new game in series or just do a simple remaster for modern consoles and systems for some residual profits. A Cold Fear sequel would be weird to see.
