Perpetual flop publisher Infogrames, aka skinsuit Atari, just bought Night Dive. Oh dear. The same company went bankrupt in 2013, triggering an IP firesale (eg THQ Nordic buying Alone in the Dark; Nacom buying Test Drive).
https://web.archive.org/web/20230322...220300554.html
Biggest trainwreck publisher in France, even more so than Ubisoft and Nacom.
Last edited by EvaUnit02; 24th Mar 2023 at 02:08.
Oh boy, oh dear.
When I think of modern Atari I think of the company that rushed Driv3r out and then bribed Future to give it good reviews in 2004. Are they still the same company? The wiki says there's new leadership since 2020. That Atari 50 collection was apparently good. Does that mean anything? I dunno, I certainly would've felt better about Nightdive being independent tho.
Not sure if it's a net loss, but I guess this tiny sum keeps Night Dive afloat, somehow? I'm hoping they get to continue to enact their game preservation remit for games across the industry, but that gets more complicated/untenable now I suppose.
Pretty sure it's a completely different company now. They're focussing a lot on old Atari IP and retro games that would compliment that back-catalogue. You all know I'm a Llamasoft fan, and they recently released a game with Atari, Akka Arrh, which is a remake of a scrapped Eighties arcade machine. They also released Tempest 4000 through Atari too.Originally Posted by henke
Atari also released their modern remake of the Atari VCS in an effort to ride the wave that the mini-console fad created, but by all accounts it's a bit of a damp squib.
The Atari of 2004 was Infogrames under new branding.
But to compare the two companies, in Nightdive Studios' existence they've released 12 remasters and 2 original titles.
In the same timeframe Atari/Infogrames has managed to file for bankruptcy, kickstart and launch the Atari VCS, release one remaster & one original title (outside the emulator + old stuff bundles that take minimal effort) and launch the cryptocurrency Atari Token.
I guess Nightdive Studios were really desperate for money.
Likely any IPs that Night Dive bought, eg System Shock, are now owned by these French failures. At very least we'll get that System Shock remake in 2 months and it'll be unaffected by these shenanigans.
I've not heard any Atari news for about 3 decades.......
I thought the rights to System Shock were owned by Tencent or somebody now.
Tencent bought the rights to publish System Shock 3, specifically.
They should just give someone else the rights to make System Shock 4 then. Bam!
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