Atari to sell internal studios, cut workforce by 20 percent

Well, the current Atari is not the Atari of yesterday. The current Atari is just the name. Several years ago, Infogrames (a French company) bought the rights to the Atari games & the Atari name.

Atari could never outdo it's competition especially after the 1983 VG crash.I wonder how it is still surviviing.

Just make sure you don't buy any stock in At*ri....don't want another Enron situation in the videogame world :(

nooooooooooo poor atari

whoops..... looks like M$ is going to own the world.....again.

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FAHRENHEIT absolutely rocked. and it did get some commercial success. though path of NEO on the PC was a dessicated piece of crap. ATARI is certainly not down. they always help out the more unknown studios around that guys like EA or ubi wont pick up. I hope they get a good title to credit

For the last time, the company is called INFOGRAMES! Don't disgrace the name Atari any longer!

That really sucks

sniff i mess really that compani really sniff

Just to put into perspective what we're talking about here...The publisher most of you are making snide comments on and throwing insults towards is the same publisher that published... Act of War, Civilization III, Dragonball Z Budokai Series, Alone in the Dark, Dragonshard, Gothic II, Mark Ecko

YAYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow that's a dam shame.... *yawn* lets hope those titles and licenses go to developers who are capable of making a game. i mean if u manage to screw something like the matrix up, its game over. the matrix was and still is one of the best movies ever made. yet the games themselves are scoreing marks like 6 out of ten and 7 out of ten. thats just sad....

Geezus people, get with the program. Epic developed the Unreal games. Atari merely put the boxes in stores. Forthcoming Unreal games will come from Midway, but Epic Games is yet again at the developmental helm. Pay attention mofos!

Atari published Unreal Tournament series and I think they are doing the upcoming Unreal Tournament 2007 also...

Well, too bad for Atari

I really hope they do not shut down, they have made my favourite game of all time or series comming to that matter! Who can forget the greatness of the Unreal Tournament series? :(

I really hope they do not shut down, they have made my favourite game of all time or series comming to that matter! Who can forget the greatness of the Unreal Tournament series? :(

Let's not forget Neverwinter Nights. I hope they at least get NWN2 out before going belly up. Or better yet, another publisher picks up the NWN franchise...

If they put half as much promo into cool stuff like Dragonshard and Indigo Prophecy as Driver/Dragonball, we'd have an Atari with vision and integrity. They're brave enough to take risks, but then they totally under-promote the cool stuff or push developers to release way too soon (Boiling Point) and really spoil a good thing. Nobody's fault but their own.

its Atari. they dont make anything good, so this is to be expected.

Ikaruga is the only good game they've made in years.

[QUOTE=even though they sorta suck, its hard to see one of the first videogame makers go down] ... The 'real' Atari, who you are refering to when saying "one of the first videogame makers", is not this company. This is the French software company Infogrames re-named 'Atari' after they literally purchased the name & rights when (original) Atari collapsed. It would be like if Capcom had a horrible year, had to close down, and Ubisoft purchased the mark. Obviously there's potential for some good games (same with Infogrames), but it sure as heck isn't the original company. So don't let sentimentality warp your perception of "Atari's" self-induced woes.

I loved Indigo Prophecy (that's Fahrenheit in the U.S.). I think we'll get more games like it if quantic dream survives, regardless of the fate of Atari. So, for me, this doen't really matter (unless they drag quantic dream down with them).

I hope they'll make more games like Path of Neo and Fahrenheit.

ouch

atari

bad for araria had to see a real game company they havent made alot of good stuf the last few years but i still support them since i grew up with atari

NO, NO, NOOO!!! Someone, quicly help Atari!!!

Hope they recover soon.

Restructing sometimes is good for the overall company.

Infogrames is a French company that bought the name Atari in an attempt to appeal more to 'Those gullible Americans'. The brass at the top have no idea what a good game is, it has always been about money to them and it has shown in many of the games they had a thumb on. Good well run studios have been successful under Atari(Infogrames) newer companies or ones that ran into deadline trouble were savaged, leading to their games demise and sometimes even the studio. (i.e. Troika & the Temple of Elemental Evil). I for one will not buy any game that Atari publishes. Except maybe out of the bargain bin. I and happy they are in trouble and hope they just get out of the business entirely.

Long Live Atari!!!

yey for the hope of better games...sence at least one bad game privioder wil sonn get shot down.. i mean REALLY . when was the last time atari accualy came out with somethin good that thats accualy stuck around.. maby they had the spotlight for a bit but only good game makers know how 2 keep the spotlight. sence theres always somethign new and better waiting around the corrner.

well they mest up driv3r and dirint do to great in the matrix games... they deserve it

there are still games to be finishe so those 98 guys aren't laid off just yet, but a little advice for them: You should hurry up with your CV's

Uh, oh...

My condolances goes out to the 98 pople who got laid off from their jobs. Its always horrible going home knowing that you'll have to join the large number of people out there trying to find a new job. While Atari only had a few good titles that I enjoyed, a lot of them were still pretty good quality games. Good luck to anyone that was laid off in the future.

Is it just me or is this happening a little too quickly among other publishers?

So much for Robot Arena 3 :(

Unreal Tournament is safe out of Atari's dying hands, so I honestly don't care :P

Here comes Chapter 11!

Path of Neo was a good game

It always sucks getting laid off, good luck guys!!

Wow...Atari...

Sorry Atari.

Any bets on how soon microsoft will pick up this company too and add it to its vast collection of game designers? I give it a week, tops

Hopefully this restructuring plan works out for Atari.

This isn't really Atari, it's just the US division of Infogrammes, which just bought the name. And Infogrammes was never a great company, they just got lots of subsidies from the French government and such. Anyway, part of their trouble was putting out buggy software, especially the PC. I bought Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Gold last year and it had a bug which rendered it unplayable at night (in the game). They didn't fix it for months.

Atari is only a publisher... those who produce games won't get touched, maybe they'll switch to another publisher but all in all it doesn't change much game wise. Budokai as an example is developped by FUNImation and Bandai (I wonder why Bandai isn't distributing this game anyway as they publish games themselves). If you pick DDO... again it's Turbine who develop the game and owns all the rights for the game, so even if Atari would close tomorow they'd just have to find someone else to publish their game... Though wishing bad ill like that to someone else is not something to do. I wouldn't enjoy being told "hey man you're slacked... we don't need you anymore"