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@ElkinFencer10 Josh's argument is that even the failures need to be preserved, and it's something that even Wase Rosen repeats in reference to Bubsy's fame from failure; but Bubsy always had SOME level of care and passion put into him.

LRG is a vindictive ***** post in corporate form, and everything Josh picks up is just some form of pain he wants to inflict on others.

I asked him for clarification if they were sold to Mighty Rabbit (Josh's tax dodge developer that still exists on paper seperate of LRG but is technically controlled by Embracer) or Josh as a person. I guess I'll go with your reading and say they were sold to him directly, and therefore don't need to add them to the Embracer section of my spreadsheet.

Which is good because the first post-Randy addition to Embracer being a collection of shitposts from the only man in gaming tbat could out-Randy Randy might have been enough to finally push me over the edge.

Coulda sworn Night Trap was part of this lot too...

I'm surprised Veronica is involved in something that's sure to put her position as Nintendo's go to for JRPG cougars in jeopardy.

"You have the sadism of Shodan, the destructive jealousy of Dark Matter, and Kapitalist Konsumption of King K. Rool. The only thing keeping you from being the TRUE final boss is you are not in the Xeno position where your megalomaniacal narcissism can unmake reality at a whim. That's your ex-boyfriend" - what an associate of mine sent to me with the caption "What I'd say to Elon if I had a large metal pipe in a dark alley."

Shatterhand was always one of the bigger question marks on my list because of the paradoxical nature of it's existence. The code was made by Natsume, which is now two different companies that have legally little to actually do with each other (and even less to do with Wade Rosen), but nonetheless pull from the same shared IP history of about 20 games they at one point owned as one entity (Shadow of the Ninja) , and a bunch of games they only localized (Pocky and Rocky).

Jaleco, meanwhile, is much more straight forward: they died and the whole lot was purchased by City Connection. Including anything owned by the international offices.

Shatterhand is a name that only exists because of Jaleco picking up the rights to the game, but not the license. Reports say it was Natsume whi suggested the 50 Shades asset swaps, but the nature of everything was still doctated and approved by the American marketers. I've always operated under the assumption that anything related to that Doki Doki branding would be inherited by CC, however much like the Ricotello mandated bastardchild Shadow of the Damned that Suda51 gets to do what he wants with anyway, did Natsume Atari somehow maintain the rights to all those publisher notes through 2 bankruptcies?

@slider1983 Yes. Wade does that.

@slider1983 "I Am Alive"

@slider1983 Most likely the horror one

@slider1983 The Ubisoft games are confirmed to be in the pipeline for Nightdive and Graphite Lab, and Digital Eclipse has been working on a remake of Intellivision's Cloudy Mountain since at least 2024 according to interal IP documents

I should buy a 7200+. If only as an excuse to own a copy of Tiger-Heli that doesn't require and LRG hoops

Aren't there still butt loads of import taxes for the US guy though?

@Tom_Gamer Remember, Vivendi are the people that put Bobby in charge of Activision. Pretty much every bad idea that has made western game development worse over the past 20 years can be traced to them, or the final boss of No More Heroes 3

Well the good news is, even of the games were published by what is now Microsoft, Nightdive as a known healthy relationship with Comcast's licensing department, and Im sure Vin Diesel would be more than happy to get these games back in people's hands.

Yet another reason to hate Google

@MasterZeta Huh. How'd I miss that? And what about this "Searchlight" project? That get anyone else?

@MasterZeta Source on the Two Point buyout? As Wade's views on Tiny Build and Thunderfull, I do understand the logic. Thunderful has some of the best AA devs in Euroope, and the second best distribution network. They still have the Nintendo contract for a reason. It's the management at Thunderfull I don't trust because they SPEEDRAN all of Embracer's mistakes so much people didn't even have time to write hit pieces on them. They had all that and they squandered it. I do not get the buisness rational.

I just straigh up hate Tiny Build's games. Full stop; not a single one of them is redeemable in my eyes. I understand that they have their market and it is a profitable one that Wade wants. I actually understand the buisness rationale with this case; I just hate it for personal reasons.

@NatiaAdamo Okay, so Creative Assembly

@Martin_H The issue with Wade's White Whale is that the rights are split to an uncertain degree between Disney, Warner Bros, and EA, and neither one wants to step forward on what parts they do and do not own because it would set legal precident in copyright law that could bite them later, and Atari can't just treat it as abandon ware cause then they poke all 3 bears at once and Wade very much needs to keep things nice and civil with them of he wants to keep those Lucasfilm and Midway licenses open; to say nothing of maintaining good standing with the likes of Comcast and Hasbro. At least until Nightdive is able to get permission for Alice or Wing Commander, and then they'll be able to call producers from all 3 relevant parties, lock them in a bathroom Saw style, and make them fight to the death to establish who actually owns the stupid thing.

@NatiaAdamo I was talking about (reads hand) Crate Assemble and/or Relc??

The dudes they bought from THQNordic but didn't let Spin-off IO style.

And Two-Point is weird: the studio is indie and owns the IP, but Sega owns the games themselves - it's very weird. Like Wonder Boy or Ecco

It'll have the same fate as Accolade: it will make a Bubsy 5 and 6, and then be absorbed back into Wade's increasingly Embracer looking Atari.

I just hope Wade doesn't end up trying to buy Hasbro, Image, Sega's European grown studios and IP, and the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle all within a 6 month span. He's already in danger of picking up the equivalent of a Randy and LRG with Tiny Build and Thunderfull.

@KingMike If you couldn't tell, keeping the names straight when given just the titles and no visual for the Japanese games made stuff very confusing

@KingMike https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uHp_wqa1tNWa8DpeRRH-KGp3rSU4fmYLtIr86Z7f7og/edit?pli=1&gid=639918701#gid=639918701

Huh. I don't have Hiouden on my sheet. Could it have another name? All I'm finding is the direct translation of the subtitle, and that's nowhere on their either

@Grackler @Sketcz As the Embracer sycophant, I feel it is my duty to apologize for the failings of the house of Stubbs, but also to blame this on Jeff Fairhurst being a bad influence, and Phil Rogers being crap at reaource allocation

Oh, you don't want to piss off the French, Phil. They're where Montreal learned it from, and they're worse.

Thanks, Wade

Still confused how Plaion is making these things (and how they're more readily available than LRG's modern console releases. You know, the ones with the user count in the millions? Funny that, isn't it?)

Yeah, that sounds like Nicallis

It really will be a guy in cargo pants and a Zelda Tee

"Tits are life, Ass is Holetown"

...4K Media actually gets to work on the GAMES? I thought they were just in charge of localizing Yu-Gi-Oh cards. I assume he means then that they helped with Operation Gulaga; which I always suspected there was outside help on cause none of that game looks like the Wayforward house style.

No hour long documentary in "The Lion Guy"? 0/10

@PKDuckman I just like having the oppurtunity to point out how much my hatred for Microsoft is directly proportional to how much i love modern Atari.

I like that Phil is such a federal politician level of incompetent at keeping his promises, even the most vauge and simple ones like "do something with Hexen" that he has to call in Atari to to bail him out.

Thanks, Wade

So how ling do you think until he sells to Wade? I give it 15 months tops

How much of the old Microprose is this Microprose anyway though? Cause last I checked most of their IP are disputed between Take-Two, Billionsoft, and Wade Rosen

In relation to LRG update: Yeah... yeah that makes an unfortunate amount of sense. At least it's Clear River, so it will be sold at normal stores: EVENTUALLY

England still has Arcades?

England still gets NEW Arcade games?

England has OFFICIAL NAMCO ARCADES?!

**NAMCO STILL MAKES NEW LIGHT GUN GAMES?!!**

Oh so THAT'S where we inherited that from

@slider1983 Hey, I blacklist all Tencent and NetEase owned IP when I go into the archives. I'm an American: I'm already stuck supporting a warmongering monkey brain by default. I don't need another

What I want to know is what the HELL is the rights situation on Sabrina that, out of the MULTITUDES of GB/C games Wayforward made, did they not only go for Sabrina, but were able to navigate the rights hellhole that is licensed kids games?

Does Team 17 own Turrican now? I know they don't own Red Dwarf.

Needs more GEX

Huh.

Well that's.

Concerning

@JackGYarwood ...Never heard of it.

What dod Double Helix even DO for Amazon?

Whoops! Missed that one when making the Square -Enix section. Gotta fix that later

Shakar is many things. Most of them extremely awful. But if there's one person in this world he's an objective upgrade over it's Randy.

Well Sunsoft is desperate for ports to sell. They could probably sell it back to them

Hmmm... that's on of the Human games we can't actually confirm where it ended up apparently.

...my God he's right. And hell, there's no way he can screw Duke up more than Randy or Take-Two could.