db5d53 No.15474161
From the "Second Death of Atari When?" Department.
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https://twitter.com/THQNordic/status/1042450852542328840
https://archive.is/B5ZKn
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>"We are happy to announce that THQ Nordic has acquired the IPs for "Alone in the Dark", a Lovecraftian survival horror game series and "Act of War", a real-time strategy game featuring a story by NYT bestselling author Dale Brown, from Atari."
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I'm delighted that Atari doesn't have a grip on these anymore. The sooner the company dies, the better.
5d0187 No.15474178
Those fucking madmen.
They keep buying stuff straight from the bottom of the bargain bin, but for what purpose.
cc798a No.15474182
>THQ Nordic Aquires Alone in the Dark, Act of War
Where in the fuck do they find the money for all these IPs and what are they even planning to do with them? They have bought fucking dozens of IPs including Joint Operations. And yet they haven't funded S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 yet. I'm getting furious.
7135a8 No.15474190
>>15474178
They're gonna Make Vidya Great Again
>>15474182
They're probably funding STALKER 2 in secret
5905ba No.15474209
>>15474190
>They're gonna Make Vidya Great Again
By the looks of Darksiders 3 I don't think so
d8095d No.15474236
>>15474178
It's like house flipping but with forgotten video games almost. Buy a bunch of forgotten IPs that publisher don't care about, make a quick profit out of them, repeat. When they'll stop is anybody's guess.
d4cd5f No.15474246
>>15474178
Considering the treatment they gave for red faction i can only foresee good things.
2a672d No.15474253
>>15474178
>buy shit games cheap
>make them not shit
Bingo bango. You nodev faggots better apply to them and make bideogames great again or Im going to lick your ass.
de5bc7 No.15474258
>>15474161
pretty happy for alone in the dark. It deserves better than atari's retardation
5d0187 No.15474269
>>15474253
Application sent. Here's hoping they also hire as cheap a personnel as they buy their IPs.
1094bb No.15474902
Where can I send them a list of IPs I want them to save from rotting away?
1903e5 No.15474905
I didn't realize THQ Nordic has turned into the Borg and assimilating old game franchises.
f1d708 No.15474916
>>15474178
To do what they've always done, sell remakes and fund disposable euro trash. This is a good thing because ??? So don't question it.
9fa9ff No.15475021
>>15474182
In my head canon there is this rich autist CEO ho goes around buying franchises just to prevent them from ever being pulled through the drt again or getting the $CURRENT_YEAR treatment.
299adc No.15475023
>>15474916
Euro AA will save gaming.
1094bb No.15475026
>>15475021
That's what happened to SNK apparently
bc7950 No.15475037
>>15474161
>THQ Nordic buys even more stuff.
OK this new Eurofag THQ is getting scary.
365066 No.15475048
>>15475026
SNK is owned by the Chinese now though.
6711ce No.15475052
>>15475037
Thq Nordic so far has given me very little reason to be nervous
1094bb No.15475068
>>15475048
I know; The CEO of the Chinese company that bought SNK was a huge SNK fanboy
dee972 No.15475071
>>15474178
They're buying up IPs for their Smash competitor.
944981 No.15475084
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>15475052
>Implying
I can't believe they did this shit after doing something so right and announcing Desperados 3 from the Shadow Tactics devs,
77fe0b No.15475126
Considering how raked through shit Alone in the Dark has been they can't do much worse, goes for most IPs they're picking up.
c5ba0a No.15475182
I'm looking forward to seeing how their games that are in development turn out, like Darksiders 3 and Biomutant and what comes after that.
d0e6c9 No.15475284
>>15474178
>for what purpose
It should be obvious
>buy abandoned IP for pennies
>spruce it up and sell it for an HD re-release for relatively little cost
>recoup payment and use profits to repeat cycle/ make new games
At this rate they'll have shit like Binx and Croc by next year.
844658 No.15475388
>>15474161
>they make a new Alone in the Dark in the vain of the first game
>but with more combat
>set somewhere between the Victorian era and 1920s range
>horse and carriage intro
>protag is reciting the penned letter he received that brought him there in the first place
>wearing a suit and top hat
>speaks proper English
>fights off monsters with his cane
>he's welding a pepperbox
abb433 No.15475412
File: aa17be6f6b2bad8⋯.mp4 (Spoiler Image, 361.89 KB, 640x360, 16:9, Alone in the Dark 2020 tea….mp4)
694ff2 No.15475416
> The sooner the company dies, the better.
Reminder that their bullshit is why Tim Cain can't release the source for Arcanum and Temple of Elemental Evil. He owns it and has a copy, but his contract with Atari prohibits him from helping bypass the DRM (A mere CD key check) on ToEE, DRM that was cracked near instantly and the game hasn't been sold with for a decade.
9bbd67 No.15475457
>>15474182
>what are they even planning to do with them?
They're sure as fuck not going to make games with them. To me it just looks like some high-level patent trolling, or they're trying to sweeten the pot before offering themselves up for sale. No idea where they're getting the cash for them initially though.
89e87f No.15475489
>>15475182
>Darksiders 3
They decided to not follow through with another of the horsemen and instead decided to go with a stronk wymmin called Fury as protagonist. I ain't buying that unless it somehow turns out great and is $5 or less.
abb433 No.15475856
>>15475489
Stop trying to stir shit up, faggot.
89e87f No.15475925
>>15475856
Darksiders was a comic? Stop referring to soyboys and other assorted subhumans to make your point nigger.
e07c39 No.15475960
GUYS WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT IS WHEN THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING ANYTHING WITH THEIR NEWLY ACQUIRED TIMESPLITTERS IP? I'VE BEEN WAITING 10 FUCKING YEARS NOW.
a25afd No.15475996
>>15475925
Stop trying to fit so hard newfag. And go back to reddit.
d83975 No.15477014
>>15475489
>I have never played Darskiders
It's pretty obvious you're trying to establish a narrative.
d8c4dd No.15477025
>>15475960
TS4 got never evered when their marketing department couldn't decide who to put on the box (Cortez, Harry Tipper, Jo Beth Casey, and a monkey with a shotgun, duh)
5bfe7b No.15477043
>>15475037
They are buying up all IP's and just like every other big video game company is going to solidify the market as just a few couple of publishers so that the entry-level of making money off of video game is that of Hollywood.
It's consolidating power, you should be nervous.
01626b No.15477052
>>15475960
More than likely, Dambuster studios former Free Radical, who they now own because they bought Deep Silver will be putting it to use and making a new Timesplitters. First there will probably be some remaster or port that will cost 10 bucks and a sandwich to make which will help fund the next game.
3bcfc9 No.15477082
>Act of War
Man, those super cheesy live action cutscenes were fucking amazing. That game had soul.
Enemy is trying to hand my ass to me!
af964e No.15477098
New Act of War when?
Eugene is like the only good French dev left.
fca0c9 No.15477100
>>15477052
Most of the people who made Timesplitters great are now either making shitty mobile games or completely out of vidya because of how fucking hard Free Radical got jewed.
I'll have some hope if THQ Nordic gets Doak and others out of mobile/retirement to make the game.
56e790 No.15477114
>>15475489
Fury is both a horseman and has been part of Darksiders since the first game.
01626b No.15477117
>>15477100
IIRC, a lot of people who were in Free Radical are at Dambuster now. True, a lot of people did leave but I can only hope that the spirit of Free Radical is still at Dambuster.
25ad61 No.15477138
>Atari
Aren't those the assholes that are hoarding bloods source code? because if THQ were to buy anything it should be Blood and then just release the source already.
9ee621 No.15477146
>>15474182
But STALKER 2 has already been announced?
01626b No.15477158
>>15474182
We don't really know if they have funded it or not, I think they prefer if some work is already done before they go all the way on support.
478395 No.15477169
>>15477146
>has already been announced
GSC is planning to develop it, but they are looking for a publisher and as far as we know they haven't even made a single asset yet. You'd think they would tell us if they did get funding, rather than keeping us in the dark for the past months. The only thing GSC is doing right now is retweeting people's stalker memes on their twitter page while Sergei is shitposting on Facebook
40c7c6 No.15477177
>>15475489
>>15475925
We all know you've never played DS.
af964e No.15477183
>>15477169
They made Cossack 3 which was cool.
478395 No.15477188
>>15477183
Yes, but Stalker 2 will obviously require a lot more money and devs than a simple Cossacks game
000000 No.15477244
Trying to silence opposite opinions, impotent mod?
>>15474161
When the cancer dies, THQ Nordic will become the new cancer.
And with deluded fools and opportunistic supporters, this transition from "good" company to total cancer will be done quickly.
There are no good companies.
0364df No.15477471
Alone in the Dark: Inferno port to PC with additional bugfixes when? It's been a long time coming.
d964b2 No.15477491
>>15477177
She was always there, though they made her less sexy compared to previous depictions. Not hard to figure out why that happened. She's also way too much of a cunt to War in the footage they released, which is probably because they want her to be a stronk womyn that enjoys seeing a man suffer. Not that any of the horsemen were very nice people to begin with.
ac8e17 No.15477493
>>15474161
Where the fuck are they getting all this money from?
d83975 No.15477501
>>15477491
She's a female character named Fury, and you expect her to not be a cunt?
60290a No.15477508
Would have been even better if they bought the rights to Blood from Atari. At least Nordic would probably do something with it unlike Atari who have sat on it doing nothing.
25ad61 No.15477549
>>15477493
they presumably got most of these franchises for very cheap so selling remasters and ports is probably very profitable for them allowing them to buy even more forgotten series and selling the remasters for even more profit to stack on top of their previous money flow.
repeat until we have enough to buy and release blood source code.
3ed13e No.15477620
>>15475489
>>15475925
If I could ban shit stirring faggots like you whenever I see them, this board would improve a lot
8cf928 No.15478081
Honestly all they need do now is just take their time and make Darksiders 3 actually good. I'd like to be optimistic but the last video I saw(like a year ago) looked pretty cheap and not much to get excited over.
I might be alone in this but I really liked Darksiders 2 and would have loved to see it if it weren't rushed.
a6e375 No.15478099
>>15477177
Yeah, he's a pretty lucky guy for that.
5c977e No.15478135
>>15474178
Buying a established IP is heaps safer than trying to build up a new one. Even better if said IP has a bunch of nostalgic fans to boot.
dee972 No.15483875
How long until THQ Nordic swoops in and buys Telltale now that it's on death's doors?
5fd09a No.15483890
>>15477244
TORpedo opinions are always shit.
dd353f No.15483980
>>15477138
didnt devolver try to get the source code from those kikes and they priced it at a way too expensive price so devolver had to say no?
8b6f70 No.15483981
>>15477188
Making games for a long time makes you crazy.
He's just now another Kojima.
8c4835 No.15484521
>>15475388
I would play this tbh