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There's this one guy on the Atsri forums who's been hyping up Atari's tinyBuild connection like it's what's going to take Atari's stock value to the moon.

If this is all that relationship ends up amounting too I am going to lauch my ass, sorry arse, off to how fuming he's going to be.

Holy Crap, it's the original Earthbound clone

As the Embracer sycophant who KNEW CDE was a bad idea even before The Randy happened, I would just like to say it's bit one sided that the media focuses on every little thing that goes wrong in Canada: meanwhile I only saw one site report on Arc spinning back off into it's own thing, there was hardly any coverage of Coffe Stain spining-off with most Amplifier, and speaking of Amplifier NOBODY covers what happens with any of them. Whether they bought themselves back, went under, or were moved to a different branch like Coffee Stain or THQNordic.

What I'm saying is websites are using Eidos for click-bait when even without The Randy we should have expected CDE to slim WAY the hell down given how bloated they had gotten under Square-Enix, to the point of only having 2 games that were confirmed to turn a profit (Deus Ex 3 and Tomb Raider Snuff Edition Part 1), and the fact that the process was this protracted when any other buyer would have been way more aggressive with the cuts early on is-

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I don't know why I bother anymore.

Pairing Body Harvest up with a bunch of games from Piko's most direct competitor is certainly a choice that I am surprised Pich went along with.

Also: reminder to myself I apparently need to add Super Solitaire, Burning Road, and Dead in the Water to the Ziggy section of my spreadsheet as, apparently, this is the first time Ziggy's ever re-released those 3.

All men suffer in the hell of their own creation

I've long held the conspiracy that the rise of AI data centers and all those ecological disaster speedruns started, quite coincidentally around the same time Elon started doubling down on his space colonization efforts again.

Funny how that timing works out, don't ya think?

Progentitor ain't on the sheet, but Rekoeition is. Has a couple spin-offs under it, including Uncharted Waters... So I got that backwards I assume?

I wonder if there's a way Plaion could sell this. Like, how do they retroactively pay the modders and sell it as an official product?

You know, I bever understood why Wade went out of his way to buy a forum site of all things.

This explains that though.

Still confused about Moby though

Again, I really think Tatsujin would fit in better with Atari.

Then again, MOST of Embracer would be better off with Wade's methods at this point, as much as that makes me feel like an unfaithful skabk to say.

Definitely not Crazy Labs, though. We can just blow that up. Violently

Once again, Bark and Bean erasure

@Null2 Let's go down the list of origins

Sega: service bar games on military bases in the Pacific

Taito: Booze

Square: Electric company

Konami: Jukebox and Gyms

Tecmo: Yachts and Building Maintenance

Koei: Made to order SMUT

Sunsoft: Textiles

Namco and Data East: Pre-computer games and automotons

Irem: Cotton Candy machines

Capcom: Side hustle for the founder of Irem

and of course, Nintendo: Playing cards for the Yakuza

TAITO IS UKRAINIAN?!

@Exerion76 Ah. So the original buisness is still going.

... question for the Europeans. Is Plaion still big in movies over there, or are they basically just games to you all too now? I know the studios all exist on paper still, but those same earnings reports never make any special mention of any medium besides games unless it's that Lord of the Rings anime, or a Dark Horse series.

I just want jewel cases, dog

Damn, poor Dizzy. I'm not sure which AI dungeon would be better for him to be stuck in: EA's or his own dads'

System 3 still exists?

Coming soon to a 7200+ near you if Wade or Plaion can get Konami to pick up the phone

@slider1983 Yes. Yes we are ashamed. Of very many things.

@slider1983 This is specifically a Japan thing that they had a department set up for this kind of obscure scenario. No One Lives Forever is a purely American production, and the American system is set up to let an IP rot rather than letting something transfer without someone getting paid.

Ah, so Square didn't sell it: it fell into the public domain... technically

Thanks Wade. And Jones, though I'm not sure why you have to say "signed a deal:" Tatsujin is Plaion's corporate cousin.aybe it's because Tatsujin technically out-ranks Plaion in the hierarchy.

Josh, you still suck.

Ian, Mikez and Wade are going to have FUN playing damage control with that.

How the heck did I miss a 4 game series when compiling the Taito section?

I'm sure of placeholder AI dialogue was really obvious, like it sounded like EVE, then I think we would have less problems

@breach187 I said DID. They DID make a genesis controller

@KingMike Marvelous. Specifically their mobile division G-Mode. They've been slinging Data East ports to every retro console they can. They even made an all new BurgerTime for consoles.

@breach187 1) That's what Amiico was going to do, but it's one of the main things that kept breaking

2) Nintendo did make a Gensis controller.

Putting aside how hilarious it is that Wade and Embracer's D Team were able to put together a better send up to Intellivision legacy in less than 2 years than Tommy ever did in 10 (by the way, this isn't the first use of Intellivision by Wade. Atari 50 got the M Network DLC, and there were shirts and hoodies immediately. There will always be shirts and hoodies.)

THE REAL QUESTION IS, did they manage to get Astrosmash, Boulderdash, and Shark Shark back from BBG, or is it a sub-liscenig deal like they had to do with Songbird for most of the Lynx and Jaguar games in 50?

The dissection of the human psyche at it's most raw and twisted now has a jukebox and achievements.

"The best satarist are in a constant battle against time, as no man could ever write a joke as hilarious and messed up as the stuff that just happens randomly on a Tuesday morning."

This is entirely a problem with only the Resident Evil producer they spoke to because literally every division of Capcom, INCLUDING THE RESIDENT EVIL TEAM, has a non-zero amount of resources put aside to find new and strange places to port their back catalog too.

"Why would you want to play old game when we make new game?"
"Why would you make a new Onimusha after porting the first 2 to modern platforms?"

FIGHT FOR LIFE 2, BAYBEE!

Making DiZ' computer Namine's "Throne" is a fantastic touch

The best games are made out of spite

@Tasuki ... it's already dead, that's why they sold it for gas money

"All rights reserved © 2025 QUByte Interactive
Street Racer is a trademark of Piko Interactive LLC - Copyright Piko Interactive LLC"

Ah, seems this is one of those IP Pich picked up in that Gamescom fire sale Wade picked up Grow and those other Ubisoft games from. And apparently I have it listed under both Piko and Ubisoft. Will need to fix THAT later.

The old ways are the best ways

Europe gets the Atari items at actual stores, meanwhile everything in the US is Amazon, or the Josh Fairhurst mystery release date.

Normally, I'd call shenanigans, but seeing how absolutely terrible we've let things get, I can't say we deserve nice things

@JayJ Ah. Well good for them. Glad they aren't published by a division of the people what killed Michael Jackson anymore. Still confused about the 2

...So how many ways will this make it to play KoF 1-10? 4?

Wait I thought there already was a 2. Full Metal Jackal, or something like that. Had the dog from the OTHER Advance Wars at home game as DLC. And weren't these guys part of some kind of embezzlement scheme or something?

I am very confused

Of all the games to bring back... well Sunsoft was always known for their licensed games more than their originals. I guess City Hunter was just easier to re-negotiate than Batman

... Alrighty then

...Why was a Shmup at the Sonic convention?

And what do you mean only time? Square has made three shmups besides Einhander: the Gummi Ship in Kingdom Hearts. 3 even brought back the Schwarzgeist as it's Square super-boss (and all the 7 only normies complained cause they wanted Sephiroth again. "&+#-ing philistines.)

Do you think Jaleco 2 will ever just buy out Irem of their gaming IP? They never use them; they're purely Engineering software now

I mean I have a couple ideas on how a company with historic ties to both the US Military and organized crime was able to weasel their way to a warrant, bit it could also be just as likely that the clerks were just going through the motions when filling out forms and never stopped to actually look at what was being signed off on

...K? Games dongo out of print eventually. Really, it's weird Evercade announces this aflt all.

Ikki becoming Vampire Survivor made a certain amount of sense given their shared reputation and similar genres, but Ripple Island coming back as Overcooked just sound like mad-lib design. Granted, Atari is kinda doing the same thing with their 2nd party revivals and it's working for them, but Ripple Island was the most single player a game could get: a text adventure game. I can understand not wanting to over milk Hebereke, but there have to be OTHER Sunsoft IP that made more sense

Still don't get why we don't get Funky Bowling as well.

Who even owns the Athena games now anyway? Hamster?