Diving for Atari gold

Atari has introduced that it has entered into an settlement to buy retro restoration developer Nightdive Studios. The chairman of Atari reportedly already owned a 13% minority stake in Nightdive, and the deal is for Atari to purchase up 100% of the shares.

Nightdive Studios has lengthy been a well-regarded developer of ports of older PC titles. A few of these endeavors have resulted in full supply ports, as was the case within the transfer of Energy Slave to their proprietary KEX Engine. At present, Nightdive is engaged on an entire refurbishment of System Shock, which is slated for launch Could 30.

For Atari’s half, it has largely been pushing modernized variations of its legacy library with video games like Yars: Recharged, which I haven’t performed, however I can’t think about it being a lot worse than 2011’s Yars Revenge reimagining. The corporate has been fairly shaky for years, although their copy of Atari video games on genuine cartridges reveals some respect for his or her properties, and the current team-up with Digital Eclipse on the Atari 50 assortment has yielded top-of-the-line retro compilations in years. Perhaps they’re turning a brand new leaf, and Nightdive will assist steer them on a very good path. Who is aware of?

I’m attempting to be optimistic. I’ve a variety of respect for Nightdive and never a lot for Atari. It’s like seeing your sibling hook up with the man who’s finest recognized for pooping himself in health club class. I’m attempting to be optimistic. Perhaps Atari’s pooping days are behind them. I suppose we’ll have to attend and see.

I reached out to Larry Kuperman, Director of Enterprise Growth at Nightdive Studios. He commented, “A significant component in selecting to associate with Atari is that Nightdive will be capable to proceed our mission to deliver again misplaced classics, however with better assets out there.”