Atari continue their mini-spree of buying up games and studios, with their relaunched Infogrames label acquiring the Surgeon Simulator franchise. This was announced today after they reached an agreement with tinyBuild.
“More than 10 years after the release of the original, Surgeon Simulator remains a popular and unique franchise,” said Infogrames Manager, Geoffroy Châteauvieux. “This was a rare opportunity to acquire a game with a timeless appeal, and we are excited to have Surgeon Simulator within the Infogrames portfolio.”
The press release noted how Infogrames will look to expand the distribution of the current games, and potentially look at making new titles in the series or new content for extending games. On top of exploring merchandising collaborations all with a long-term plan to "preserve and expand the franchise". So, you know, the usual stuff publishers do when acquiring a series.
Other somewhat recent Atari acquisitions include Totally Reliable Delivery Service, Nightdive Studios, plus Awesomenauts, Swords & Soldiers and Digital Eclipse, the Intellivision brand and over 200 games and it seems there will be plenty more to come with Infogrames being set up specifically to acquire IP and publish games outside of Atari's usual stuff.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
slaapliedje Jun 26
On another note, if you've never played Surgeon Simulator in VR, you're missing out!
Weird, I wonder why they relaunched the Infogrames brand. I don't think it was ever terribly popular.I may be misremembering, but last time this came up around here I seem to recall someone noting that what is now called Atari was actually originally Infogrames, who acquired the Atari IP and renamed themselves, or something like that. So I figure some of the old Infogrames hands are nostalgic and wanted their original company to exist again.
Weird, I wonder why they relaunched the Infogrames brand. I don't think it was ever terribly popular.
On another note, if you've never played Surgeon Simulator in VR, you're missing out!
"Infogrames" was a sign of quality during the C64 and Amiga times...
slaapliedje Jun 28
The only game I actually remember off hand that they published was Drakhen, which was cool looking, but I never did get around to playing it.Weird, I wonder why they relaunched the Infogrames brand. I don't think it was ever terribly popular.
On another note, if you've never played Surgeon Simulator in VR, you're missing out!
"Infogrames" was a sign of quality during the C64 and Amiga times...
slaapliedje Jun 28
Weird, I wonder why they relaunched the Infogrames brand. I don't think it was ever terribly popular.I may be misremembering, but last time this came up around here I seem to recall someone noting that what is now called Atari was actually originally Infogrames, who acquired the Atari IP and renamed themselves, or something like that. So I figure some of the old Infogrames hands are nostalgic and wanted their original company to exist again.
Yeah, it kind of went... Nolan's Atari... Warner Communication's Atari, Jack Tramiel's Atari, Hasbro's Atari Interactive, Infogrames' Atari... Then some shifts around and now they actually have a CEO who gives a shit and is making all the Right Moves. But hey, they have a Linux based console that is still pretty awesome, they just released Neo Sprint on Steam (it's been on the VCS for a while, and the Steam version I believe only handles 4 players while you can play 8 locally on the VCS? I'll have to look that up again to be sure...)
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