Zeebor15

Zeebor15

We simp THQNordic and Atari

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Re: Atari Announces 'Breakout Beyond', A New Game From The Devs Behind The 'Bit.Trip' Series

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I mean it makes sense. All the Bit Trip games are obstesebly Breakout but also a rhythm game. Even the Bubsy one, which by the way, I've been pointing this out on every other posting of this story but it's stupid yet on brand that the former Gaijan Entertainment would become the second AA Contract Studio (as I refuse to use any version of "indie" in anything related to a company as big as Atari) to work on two Atari IP in it's current form, but only in theost backwards amd legally retroactive way possible. The only one that could beat it would be THQNordic lending them back Black Forest to make Bentley Bear Goes to Nam

Re: Sega Admits It Doesn't Know How Many Games It Owns

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@Rudjohns Okay, still not sure why Kid Chameleon isn't on the list, but I cannot find anything to say it isn't still at Sega so I've added it and those 2 Japan only ones I just straight up never heard of before have been added to the count; 558 (I reconsolidated the SMT and Sonic spin-offs)

Re: Sega Admits It Doesn't Know How Many Games It Owns

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@Rudjohns Aladdin refers to a series of Pachinko machines from the Sammy side, apparently. "...of Illusion" I have listed with an * but only because thats the one Disney series ive seen documentation that Sega owns original IP assests too. Tembo is owned by Gamefreak, but ill have to double check on the three you listed. i remember looking at Kid Chameleon but can't remember the exact reason why i skipped it.

Re: Sega Admits It Doesn't Know How Many Games It Owns

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@NatiaAdamo I try not add stuff that's directly based on outside licenses for the sake of avoiding feature creep. The only exceptions I've made are
1) Sports - Because of the legla precident set by EA and Piko (of all people) there is a clear delination of the rights ownership for the IP of the game vs. the players/league branding IN FAVOR of the game publisher.

2) Series that while tied to a pre-existing IP at first have characters and stories that have been proven they can stand completely seperate as a franchise divorced from those non-game origins; Super Robot Wars, Kingdom Hearts (in fact there are multiple Disney series that have been shown to have notable assests owned by publishers. That's why there's Disney Afternoon, Of Illusion, Tron is a bit of a chicken and the egg situation since there's conflicting reports on if the game was concieved first or the otherway around. Eitherway, there's MUCH more Tron game media than anything else).

Warner Bros' "LEGO" series is included with a giant * on it becasue it has both of these things going for it, though it is City and Dimensions doing the heavy lifting in that regard.

I don't have Toontown on here because it's a game that, one cannot be divorced from the source material in anyway, unlike the 3rd and 4th Gen games, and two Disney seems to have actually ABANDONED their hold on the trademark on some level; casue there's no way Toontown Resurrected would be allowed to exist if they still had some level of control over it.

Re: Round Up: Virtua Fighter, Onimusha, Okami, Ninja Gaiden... The Game Awards 2024 Was A Good Night For Classic Gaming Fans

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I am, of course, obligated to celebrate Screamer, as both part of Plaion's (very slow and confusing) redemption arc, but also because it signifies that people are beginning to chip away at that rights squatting Interplay finally. (Though that actual chipping started in 2022 and I just didn't notice. Whoops.)

An extra note on Pac-Man, according to Harada the game is designed by former members of SNK and Capcom's Flagship. Specifically having the main designer of Kirby and the Amazing Mirror. So that's... Fascinating. Someone tell AntDude

Re: Embracer Group Interim Report Leaks 'FZ: Formation Z' Western Release Plans

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It's nice that SOME good news came out of today. The announcement that they had given there most profitable branch to Tencent still burns.

Interesting they're not using the "Aeroboto" branding at all. Guess they don't consider it worth the extra coordination since the IP was never really much more than a blip outside Jaleco's homeland.

There's a BUTT load more leaks on here actually... wow they did a terrible job checking this
Amplifier has something called Project Expeditions to announce; Arc has a contract job "Fellowship" (probalby more Rings crap). There's this Tides of Tomorrow that's labeled as "Deep Silver/PLAION" which I have no idea what that means.

BUBSY is on this list. Normally LRG is not included at all on these lists because "there's just so much", but skipping ahead it seems one was added this year as they ramp up actual carbon engine development, but Bubsy is not in that section! He's in the "External publisher" section with the Amazon Tomb Raider (and Squirreled Away which is owned by Amplifier but not published by anyone internally? Even though Amplifier doesn't own the studio on this one. And Atari Part 2: Ziggurat's Rendering Ranger R² [Rewind]. Which tells me Wade is NEVER trusting Josh as a distributor ever again, and that is soothing to my soul.

Good that Prime Matter's still a thing. That's good. They're the good part of Plaion
The bad news is Painkiller's off the board. Meaning it was most likely quitely canceled in the divorce from Saber... And we still have no idea what "Final Form" is other than it's co-owned by Prime Matter