GameTap expands Atari relationship

Today GameTap announced and extended deal with Atari for distribution rights to several classic and modern Atari titles. This new agreement grants GameTap rights to a selection of Atari’s stellar and renews GameTap’s rights to distribute Atari’s classic console and arcade catalog. Atari’s games will be available through GameTap’s games-on-demand service and digital retail store. A few examples of the new games headed to GameTap thanks to this new arrangement: the 2008 release of Alone In The Dark, Indigo Prophecy, King’s Bounty, the Master Of Orion series, the Neverwinter Nights series, the excellent Test Drive Unlimited, The Witcher and Arma Combat Operations.

Originally launched by TBS in 2005, GameTap went on to merge with Metaboli merged in September of 2008 to form a new global network dedicated to the digital distribution of games. Metaboli has established distribution partnerships with many of the world’s leading internet, gaming, and e-commerce portals including Virgin Media, Game, Orange, Free, Neuf Telecom, AOL, Club-Internet, fnac, Telecom Italia, Wind, Web.de, Gamesradar, Eurogamer, pcgames.de and computec.de.

Atari Brings Alone in the Dark to PS3

When Alone in the Dark made its way to consoles and PC earlier this year, the PlayStation 3 was left, oddly enough, alone in the dark. Atari plans to remedy that next month with the release of Alone int the Dark: Inferno, a new PS3 version of Edward Carnby’s latest adventure. That’s not all Atari plans to remedy though, as the Inferno will come with revamped controls and gameplay, as well as some expanded content.

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This Week on XBLA

This week on Xbox Live Arcade you can finally play Jonathan Blow’s Braid, get the latest content update for Burnout Paradise and take WALL•E and Alone in the Dark for a test drive.

Independent developer Jonathan Blow’s first game, Braid will finally be put to the test this week as this promising indie title is released on Xbox Live Arcade. Described as an artful puzzle-platformer, Braid takes players from world to world, solving puzzles and figuring out what game elements are manipulated by time. Braid will be available on Wednesday for 1200 Microsoft Points

As promised Criterion has released the Cagney Update for Burnout Paradise on Xbox Live. The update provides players with 3 new Freeburn Games to play online with friends (Road Rage, Stunt Run and Marked Man) 70 Timed Online Challenges and a whole lot more.

Also available this week is the WALL•E and Alone in the Dark demos. Though both of these are a bit late to the dance , if you haven’t tried the full games then both are worth the download.

Log on to Xbox Live Marketplace for all this and more.

Alone in the Dark Tops European Charts

Despite the fact that Alone in the Dark is being hammered in the review circuit both in Europe and North America, Atari’s game is apparently selling pretty well in the United Kingdom and Germany.

Atari’s action survival game topped the Xbox 360 sales charts across Europe following its release on June 20. According to Chart Track data, Alone in the Dark was number 3 on the top 40 overall chart, number 1 on the full priced Xbox 360 chart, number 5 on the PC full price chart, number 20 on the Wii charts, and number 5 on the PS2 chart - all for the week ending June 21. In Germany, Alone in the Dark also topped the Xbox 360 sales charts - according to data from Media Control.

Alone in the Dark Delayed…Again

Coining the term nukemed, Joystiq reports that Alone in the Dark, the next-generation chapter in the popular horror game action-adventure series, has been delayed yet again. The game’’s new date is September, which a considerable leap from its previous date of March. The Joystiq source ? Games For Windows Magazine. Gamers looking forward to jumping into Edward Carnby’’s next creepy adventure will have to wait until this fall, it seems.