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Good for Gerald

Not even I know how many ways you can buy Batsugan, but I'm pretty sure at this point they're just trying to beat Sonic 2

0/10 game ruined

I'll do it for less than scale, and the right to tell Maximilian that Marvel 2 is mid and TvC is the TRUE king of the versus series.

@Grail_Quest I'm still mad and confused Embracer didn't get him in the sale. Literally, it took the worst division of Embracer to get Gex out of the Square dungeon anyway.

I am biased because I have a financial stake in the game through Crystal Dynamics, but I will say that the game would be vastly improved if she was a wisecracking Gecko that made references to old movies and celebrities

I was gonna mak a joke about not having anything from Revengance the Musical again, but then I saw that they included the Ape Escape reference from the original 3, and I have to salute patriotically now.

We used to be a CULTURE. We used to MEAN SOMETHING

Those Dino Crisis votes were more botted than a (insert you own political punchline here)

Sakurai is the real-G

It doesn't matter how much they try to port to modern systems, the web of spin-offs Falcom has released over the last 40 years will forever be the single most inpentrible narrative in all of fiction.

"it should go without saying, but Bobby and Phil can suck it"

Yet more evidence that Take-Two is a bag of chickens

This led me down a rabbit hole of Nichibutsu's releases and dear LORD there is SO much Mahjong porn

They've made bigger mistakes.

Deadpool knew ALL ALONG

I just remembered these were suppossed to be happening this year. Hopefully Clear River can get them, and the two City Conenction games including Omega 6 localized and on shelves at the same time internationally as in Japan. I know Freemode is in kind of an "All hands on Middle Earth as we desperatly try to get rid of as much debt as quickly as possible" mode, but I hope one of the two best parts of Embracer is able to keep steady through it all.

@KitsuneNight @KGRAMR The current Wade era is still Into-tari. The name hasn't been sold to anyone else since then, but their market segments and divisions have changed drastically. While the other Atari's were straight up re-incarnations, the transition to this current age is more a ship of theseus piece by piece re-invention. Again, trying to do the Embracer style "put the old company back together piece-by-piece" approach without making the same mistakes of getting sidetracked by Randy and over-extending

Joust and Defender are in Lego Dimmensions, along with I THINK Blasteroids, and I know the rights to Sprint are a bit weird right now.

@Fallingshadow @KGRAMR Yes, Astrosmash and SHARK! were sold to a compnay called BBG. AS for the likes of APB, yes the first collapse of Atari into console Atari and Arcade Atari is confusing. That's why I eventually sat down and figured out what Warner Bros Discovery now calls "Midway Classics" Here's the in -progress list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uHp_wqa1tNWa8DpeRRH-KGp3rSU4fmYLtIr86Z7f7og/edit#gid=639918701

@Steel76 Don't get your hopes up on Astrosmash just yet. We're trying to figure out if Tommy already sold that to the Germans.

I'm currently discussing with some of the Atari executives what exactly is in that >200 games count. Will report back with finidngs later.

EDIT: Wade refuses to make the full list publisc. Again. Bollocks

... How did Marvelous get ownership of this IP?

My name has no relation to this

@dr-gorgo As stated, their partner companies in other regions are massive improvements over them and it's quite instulting, but feels partially justified, to the American audeience. If you mean purely American, Maximum's PM and Merge labels have actually been beating every other Adv-A level publisher in the country by every metric with the exception of LRG's OTHER "way better at your job" European cousin, THQNordic.

As the Embracer sycophant, the most frustrating thing about LRG is their younger, European cousin Clear River Games is SOOOOO much better at their job, but we in the states don't get them. Only doing an average of about one release a quater, and putting ALL eggs on it instead of spreading 70 people across 3 releases a WEEK. Clear River used to distribute ESRB copies on it's own, but now their releases just get shuffled in with everything else LRG in the states. They're at least guaranteed to be possible to get without pre-ordering as they all go up on LRG's Not at All Limited In Fact Why are We Even Publishing This in the First Place Amazon Store Front Selection, but you're still dealing with the LRG shipping delays AND you don't get Nintendo points off of them. That's just salt in the wound at that point.

I've at least been able to have conversations with the Clear River folks that don't end with me being insulted and called an idiot, and their new community manager is MUCH more transparent than LRG's ever was. Even won an Omega 6 comic off of them. It was very based. I digress.

The only way to really fix Limited Run Games is to hope they get fuly absorbed during the "Middle Earth Enterprises and Friends" split into being Clear River America, and the pompus founders are kicked to the curb so MVG can focus on the Carbon Engine, and Clear River can focus on what LRG was meant to do; give me day and date physical releases of City Connection, Tasujin, and other Adv-A - AA tier retro game revivals.

@LowDefAl So... LRG but so...that.

I've never looked into Beep. Do they own Success now?

...I'd like a second opinion to confirm. Right now I have Earth Light classified as a Military Madness spin-off.

Wait, "successor by the same team at the same company" Isn't that just a sequel? Is a new IP or just a spin-off of Military MAdness? Do I need to adjust my srpeadsheet?

But can you Slurp while you stack?

@Daggot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_(game_developer)

Somehow they have the NEC stuff

@Daggot apparently they have a Hamster style warchest of forgotten IP, but I've never looked too hard into it.

Does anyone know the full list of stuff M2 own outright? I only know of the one

The Rosie O'Donnell show: where we envy the dead

It's Gee Bee. Gee Bee was Namco's first ever video game, and it's not on the service yet. It makes perfect sense as a milestone release

Namco's first ever Arcade game was 1965's Periscope, but that was more of a "shoot the ducks at the fair" type deal than something that can be emulated on a Switch.

YET ANOTHER REASON TO HATE GOOGLE!

What do they need all this land for anyway? Don't they rotate staff on a constant basis for executive nepo-projects like Stadia that never end up going anywhere, and most of that staff is work from home at this point?

@jbrodack Eh, that's fair. Not like I care about anything CDE currently has anyway. The only good thing to come out of the Crystal Dynamics name was Gex, and they left him back at Square-Enix.

We were discussing this in the Atari discord earlier. The current theory is that Infogrames will quickly surpass the main Atari brand itself as it drinks in a larger variety of titles. As stated in the article, this is most likely where the stuff picked back up from Billionsoft will end up; with the 5 games currently re-released from that backlog being sold as "Atari presents," soon to be "Infogrames presents." But there is also Awesomenauts, which Atari bought the rights to for an unknown reason at the time, but it makes sense they were saveing it for a "misc" category like this.

I just hope Wade has good enough pattern recognition skills to not over-extend himself on $3 Billion of promised money to get a franchise and a dev that kinda hate being associated with said franchise now, only for the deal to fall through and then get dragged through the mud for two years when they're forced re-structure.

Who owns the rights to all the TAD stuff now?

I'm told "Masaya Games" is also known as extreme games. At least to City Connection.

@mjparker77 ...I'll take your word for it.

Can someone please explain to the dumb American the historical and cultural significance of "Thalamus"?

There is only two things in this world I trust less that CBS; The United States House of Representatives, and my mother

>more collections from Tomb Raider's current IP holder, Crystal Dynamics

Well that's not hard to guess. CDE only owns 8 IP, and threeof those are mobile only/still partially controled by outside parties. Blaze has never done anything beyond the scope of the 5th generation, so that rules out the later TR games. I guess you could do the first Deus Ex, but Legacy of Kain is mostly PS2, so process of Elimination leaves Thief.

@K1LLEGAL Piko is trying to get some sort of Glover animated series off the ground, but there have been no investors so far.

The story of Telenet is a confusing one missing pieces and a game of telephone going from retro developer to retro developer. Originally all the rights were sold to Sunsoft in their last days of international relivancy, and then when they shifted to domestic mobile releases only for a bit they sold the rights to City Connection to keep the lights on. City Connection then sold the Rights to Edia, who proport to have >200 IP from across gaming history now, but good luck finding a comprehensive list of them. At least in English. What I'm saying is, Edia is the Japanese Ziggurat, and that annoys me and my spreadsheet to no end.

It's good to have both versions, but I'm still going to wait for the physical of "2" in August. Ideally, that version would have both of them on it, but I understand since this is City Connection it would have weird rights issues.

That came out just last year. Must be license trouble with EA. ... come to think of it, what HAS EA done with Codemasters since buying them?

@Servbot_EJ They already did. Twice. Once on mobile when they were first starting out and again on Vita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Connection#Legacy

Previously released in the west as "Aeroboto"