Atari enters into an agreement to acquire Digital Eclipse - The retro company acquisition spree continues.....

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Atari is acquiring Digital Eclipse, a studio that specializes in preserving and rereleasing retro games on modern hardware. The releases are often rich in additional materials and historical content. Think the Criterion Collection but for video games. In a press release, Atari says it’s paying up to $20 million for the studio, including an initial $6.5 million paid in a combination of cash and shares and a further $13.5 million, which is due to be paid in cash over the next decade subject to Digital Eclipse’s performance. It expects to complete the deal in the coming days. The two companies previously worked together on last year’s excellent Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, which included ports of over 90 classic games as well as unreleased prototypes and neat extras like short documentaries and old photos and magazine articles. But Digital Eclipse has also produced a number of other well-received rereleases of classic games including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection and the interactive documentary The Making of Karateka. In total, Atari says Digital Eclipse has produced over 250 games since its inception.

Despite now being owned by Atari, Digital Eclipse says it still has the freedom to work on non-Atari projects in a FAQ page on its website. “In addition to recent releases like Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord and The Making of Karateka, Digital Eclipse has a lot of unannounced projects in the works that do not involve Atari’s IP, and those will carry on as planned.” This is the latest notable acquisition Atari has made in the retro space this year and follows its purchase of Nightdive Studios, a developer perhaps best known for its work remastering and remaking the System Shock titles. As with Nightdive, Atari says its acquisition of Digital Eclipse will help with its “retro-focused growth strategy.” “Digital Eclipse is the best in the world at what they do,” Atari CEO Wade Rosen said in a statement. “They have a deep love and respect for the history of the games industry, and are renowned for developing critically acclaimed projects based on historic franchises. Digital Eclipse, along with Nightdive, are in perfect alignment with Atari’s DNA and renewed purpose.” “Atari and Digital Eclipse share the same ethos when it comes to celebration and preservation of gaming history,” said Digital Eclipse founder and CEO Andrew Ayre. “It’s an exciting combination, and I am confident this will serve Digital Eclipse and our fans extremely well as we grow our business and expand our capabilities.” While the Atari 50 collection was met with a positive response, some of the company’s other recent initiatives haven’t been as well received. Its Atari VCS console had a rocky development and eventually released to middling reviews, and the brand also got into NFTs in 2021. Hopefully, its recent acquisitions are a sign that it’ll be more focused on the classic games behind its brand going forward.
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Atari making their moves. They bought NightDive a little while ago. My only question is where are they getting the cash because I've been under the impression the company has been barely kept afloat and I simply can't believe there's enough nostalgia fags to keep it going.

That all said: if this leads to a proper sequel to Blood then okay. But I get the feeling I wished upon a monkey's paw and Blood 2 ends up being a looter shooter or something equally terrible.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
That all said: if this leads to a proper sequel to Blood then okay. But I get the feeling I wished upon a monkey's paw and Blood 2 ends up being a looter shooter or something equally terrible.
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BrunoMattei said:
Atari making their moves. They bought NightDive a little while ago. My only question is where are they getting the cash because I've been under the impression the company has been barely kept afloat and I simply can't believe there's enough nostalgia fags to keep it going.

That all said: if this leads to a proper sequel to Blood then okay. But I get the feeling I wished upon a monkey's paw and Blood 2 ends up being a looter shooter or something equally terrible.
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In fairness, they picked up the studio for under ten million dollars. Thats, like, unfathomably cheap. Something must have been going wrong there behind the scenes.
 
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Vyse Inglebard said:
They've exited bankruptcy since then, apparently. Also they're not actually Atari at all, but rather formerly Infogrames.
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They're not even that anymore. They're this weird zombie brand that wears Atari like a skin suit. The pillars of their company right now are

  1. Gambling
  2. Homosexuality
  3. Real estate scams
  4. Shitcoin scams
 
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The Ugly One said:
They're not even that anymore. They're this weird zombie brand that wears Atari like a skin suit. The pillars of their company right now are

  1. Gambling
  2. Homosexuality
  3. Real estate scams
  4. Shitcoin scams
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There was that time Atari scammed Souja Boy by making him think he owned Atari but all he got out of it were shitcoins.

 
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Vyse Inglebard said:
Atari is acquiring Digital Eclipse, a studio that specializes in preserving and rereleasing retro games on modern hardware. The releases are often rich in additional materials and historical content. Think the Criterion Collection but for video games.
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Hurts to read this ridiculous fluffing.

So I found I was getting around 83 to 157.7 milliseconds of total input delay – it was toward the low end of that range on the Xbox Series X, middle of the road on the Switch OLED, and a little bit on the higher side on the PS5.
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Like 9 frames of lag for SNES emulation, just terrible. Many such cases. Hoard your roms, no free emulator is that bad. They're not "preserving" anything, only taking easy money.
 
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I wish the big studios would invest in the project Night Dive does for their own games. Mean how hard is to have a small dev whos small job is to do that.
 
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That technically happened to one of the white male characters in Blood 2, although that was made in the late '90s when gender-bending was a dumb fiction thing to laugh at and not a means to live out a fetish. They probably will retcon it into some spirit quest for that character (can't remember his name) to find his "true identity" as a strong black girlboss.
 
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Man modern Atari is such a strange beast, and I have zero idea what they could possibly be planning with the ways they are spending money these days. Are they still basically just Infogrames just using the name of Atari?

They should get the Dragon Ball license again and make some more Legacy of Goku games.
 
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