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The physical is sold out of all the import sites because Sega started trying to block sales; suspected as part of an anti-compete in LRG'S license. Of course they can't STOP import sites fully, wonmy question is: do you think import sites will get new stock first, or should I just suck it up and wait for the LRG version to show up at VGP next year?

The cope in the Atari circles is that this spin-off (which I'm surprised no marketing for this ever just calls it that. This has about as much to do with Adventure as Battle Network does with X and we still call those Mega Man games.) will see a boost once it goes to retail. Now that Atari has Thunderfull, they SHOULD be able to get a box out quicker than iam8bit will for Hollow: considering iam8bit's calendar is backlogged to June

Does anyone know if importing the SEA or PEGI versions would be cheaper to get in the US at this time; or am I just going to have to wait for the tariffs to get yanked?

As the PS1 Ride or die that I am: holyshitTWOCAKES.jpg

Thanks, Wade.

(Huh? It's "NIGHT DIVE" 2 words?)

Still don't understand all this buildup for Search Action Mid

It is sad to see Horri holding that damn key-card

Thanks, Wade, though Josh will probably still not include this in the box release for some reason

I can't believe we live in the timeline where the last hopes for artistic integrity and preservation are CD Projekt amd Atari.

I wonder if in the timeline where we aren't spiraling into Great Depression 2: Hoover's Revenge, it's some rando combination like Nacon and... Tecmo-Enix leading the charge.

This is the first normal Gen 6 to have a Mega, right?

@roboshort That's what Infogrames is for.

@Zeta Team Meat's existence is... weird now.

@Zeta Piko does, but nobodies gonna share the full list until all the sales close out

@Zeta ...Yars and Adventure are Search action, not Rogue. Driver wasn't in the list of IP up for grabs, at least not at the Gamescom fire sale.

@Zeta Recent investigations show that I was mistaken on my timeline: Headup took Meatboy in the divorce.

@roboshort I think we agree for different reasons (you seem to still not trust Atari; I don't want Wade to over-extend like Lars did), so you'll pleased to know that Ubisoft had a behind close doors auction at Gamescom for their lesser IP, Child of Light included. Wade closed his deal first so that's why we have this, and according to the source I got this inside scoop from, Piko Interactive, he will be picking up Alley Cat.

So there's that Monkey's Paw: Atari didn't get Child of Light, but we have no idea who did.

Thanks, Wade, although I hate how they say "5 games" and not "4 series." Like when they bought Stern but counted the IP as "the likes of Berserk and Frenzy" Frenzy is Berserk 2. It's not a distinct IP. Grow Home is Grow Up 2- they should be treated as an intrinsically package deal.

Still, it is funny and a bit hope inspiring that Atari has gone from selling off their legacy to Mirror universe Ubisoft to keep a crypto scam afloat, to becoming such a successful paragon of pro-consumer preservation that they are able to save IP from ThisCrap Universe Ubisoft and keep a small part of what little good Ubisoft did alive; while Ubisoft itself is eaten away from the inside by a parasite called Tencent.

Who'd have thought in the 90s Infogrames would one be the savior, and Ubisoft the bloated corpse?

Kirb is love. Kirb is life.

@Tempestryke Split between Throwback and Microsoft. Throwback still sits in the majority of Acclaim's IP actually https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uHp_wqa1tNWa8DpeRRH-KGp3rSU4fmYLtIr86Z7f7og/edit?usp=drivesdk

He straight up said "licensing meetings suck"

This is going to be hell on my spreadsheet, how do they have enough games for a Direct already?

@Kyloctopus Where's My Heropon Riki pet sim (with Manana, Riku, Tatsu, Poppi, and Bana options) Monolithsoft?

I wonder of this was EPD4, 11, or Cube

Welp, we're doomed

Why do sites still just list the September Direct as a rumor? Something happening pre-TGS has literally been the most consistent direct time since they started.

There was a lip sync issue? X had had bad lip matching since the Wii U: I thought that was intentional

While Nintendo has shown SOME respect for Atari's efforts (though probably only at Yhe Tetris Company's insistance) I don't see them ever working together. Mostly due to stubborn pride and bruised egos over how much better Nightdive and DE's emualtion efforts are so much better than NERD and iQue's

@NatiaAdamo HOORAY! I'VE STARTED A MEMETIC PLAGUE!

I wonder what new glitches and messes this eShop exclusive very will have

@SlackerArtist I saw that. Would not have been my choice.

Thanks Wade.

Although I get why Bubsy has a new voice (he was uncredited in 5 and 6 but rumors were that the new Bubsy was a Blacklisted and desperate Vic Mignognia. Someone a dev like Fazbraz would NEVER work with), but the new voice actively try NOT to sound like Menali or Paulson is a choice I don't think will be a good one.

I'm surprised Disney remembered they own that

Silk is already confirmed to have a presence. Keighley has always been not just a tool, but the entire Black and Decker Deluxe Standing Tool box.

Death Adder and Neff

@NatiaAdamo Well that much is obvious. Why else would they keep contracting Tee

@NatiaAdamo That was Sega In-House. I was talking about BruceBruce; the guy who actually wrote all the Sonic 3 music

All that Sony and Microsoft garbage, and you don't even bother to include the last GOOD ONE (until Astro Bot) Gravity Rush!? But you put in the Communist-Disney Overwatch game. Great. Fantastic.

Putting aside how dogmatically offended I am to have too look at THAT, my answer of these options would be System Shock because Thanks, Wade.

I want to know who had to Sonic-ify Minecraft and SpongeBob

Someone with more autism to check this than me; how many Tales of games are there actually, and how many are left to port?

Even I don't know how Irem is still a thing

@NatiaAdamo His knowledge of audio engineering makes him more valuable alive than dead

I just want to know who the credits are. Is it really all EPD staff?

It's weird seeing Maximum held up as good now

@Zeta I don't know which comment you're replying too, but play Yars Rising

@EVIL-C You can also get LRG's "number" releases for the Recharged series, Akka Arrh, and Clear River's Gold Master Trilogy, on Atari.com those that's in very low stock: Alla Arrh is sold out and so are at least 2 Recharge sets.

@Fiergala I just hope this house of cards doesn't blow over because of a Thanksgiving gone horribly ary. Or as my family would call it "exactas expected."

@Zeta Still no idea why it was only ever released in PAL regions. Atari barely operated in the region at the time and the developer is in St. Louis.

@NatiaAdamo Well that's cause Michael didn't own that music either. The producer did.

@Fiergala By random chance I have become aquatinted with a self-proclaimed "large stakeholder" in Atari who lnows how to read and where to find the correct legally mandated public disclosure documents that otherwise get lost in the shuffle of political bureaucracy. My autism is nothing compared to his.

Wade Rosen, current CEO and owner of Atari. Founder of Ziggurat and still majority owner of that, though he know longer works day to day with them. Is the projenitor of Atari's 7th Age and its meteoric rise from the ashes. Massive nerd.
His brother works at Paramount and is similarly the reason we're getting a crapload of Nick games recently

Really it's the art direction that I take issue with. This is by far the UGLIEST game to ever have the Nintendo name attached to it, yes worse than Geist, but Geist had the excuse of nominally being a horror game. AND this is (allegedly) all EPD4 staff. How did the makers of Ring Fit Adventure come up with THIS dull grey mess. Even the Sportlings had more appeal than this and people (rightfully) HATED THEM

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@LizardTaro Carbon Engine technically can't do PAL, at least not without some HEAVY specialized tweaking. It's why British Gex is a patch.

@JohnnyMind If you guys got the Mr. Run & Jump + Kominbera release, you'll eventually get this. Atari re-opened (on paper) Ocean Software last year. Organized in the UK, but hiring logistics coordinators and producers in Munich.

@Suketoudara Don't ask questions you aren't prepared to handle the answers too

@GrailUK Wade believes that Bubsy is the perfect encapsulation of "no such thing as bad plublicity" and believes that giving Bubsy his first, true 7/10 game will be the perfect encapsulation of Atari's Rise from the Ashes arc "If we can save Bubsy, we can save the world." (Apparently he REALLY wants to make it with NIS. Bubsy Disgae)

@Don @EVIL-C He means their storefront, and no it isn't. Atari PR has already confirmed it will be on at least their store and VGP... eventually

@flamepanther Carbon Engine doesn't have anything for old windows besides a mostly retrofitted (ie: copied wholesale) DOS-BOX setting. DE might have one, but they're busy with God knows how much other stuff.