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.
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Category Industry, Other | Tags: Alone in the Dark,Arma Combat Operations,Atari,GameTap,Indigo Prophecy,King’s Bounty,Master Of Orion,Neverwinter Nights,Test Drive Unlimited,The Witcher
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Quantic Dream CEO keynotes GDC Europe
Quantic Dream CEO and founder David Cage will deliver a keynote at this year’s Game Developers Conference Europe (GDC Europe) called “Writing Interactive Narrative for a Mature Audience.” This keynote will focus on the importance of mature games, what difficulties developers of such games might face, and some possible solutions and techniques to help with creating interactive story-driven content.
Quantic Dream is best known for creating Omikron: The Nomad Soul and Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in North America). The company is currently working on Heavy Rain, which is due for release sometime in 2010. Cage joins other notable GDC Europe keynoters including Gameforge CEO Klaas Kersting managing director of Remedy Matias Myllyrinne, CCP CEO Hilmar Pétursson and Crytek CEO and president Cevat Yerli.
GDC Europe will take place August 17-19 at the Cologne Congress East Center in Cologne, Germany in conjunction with gamescom.
