Fallout Trilogy hits NPD top 10 best-selling PC games

Keep up man, Atari is a subsidiary of Hasbro who also own WotC, and has the exclusive license to all D&D products on any computer platform.
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Atari is not a subsidiary of Hasbro. Atari is owned by Infogrames.

Infogrames bought Hasbro's video game subsidiary, Hasbro Interactive in 2001. In 2005, Hasbro bought back the digital gaming rights for their properties from Atari for $65 million. In the deal, Atari/Infogrames acquired a 10 year exclusive deal to produce video games based on 10 key Hasbro franchises, including Dungeons & Dragons.
 
Brother None said:
Keep up man, Atari is a subsidiary of Hasbro who also own WotC, and has the exclusive license to all D&D products on any computer platform.
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Actually according to Wikipedia Atari is a subsidiary of Infogrames and it gained exclusive rights to develop and publish games based on Hasbro properties (including D&D among others) when it aquired Hasbro Interactive from Hasbro. Afaik Infogrames/Atari also own exclusive rights to develop and publish games based on former Interplay game series Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment (it did publish IWD and BG collections under it's name few years back).

Oh and popularity of Fallout Trilogy is not so surprising as FO1&2 have been on top of sales chard at GOG.com since start of public beta only being push out of top 5 momentarily by new games or weekend/week sales.

Edit: Ausir beat me to it :P
 
ACTUALLY, atari europe has been bought ;)

http://translate.google.com/transla...u=http://www.golem.de/0905/67121.html&prev=hp

or for those who understand german:
http://www.golem.de/0905/67121.html


in short, atari europe is gone now, bought up by namco/bandai. was in today's news...


but i could care less, more concerning to me is that 3DRealms is broke. No Duke Nukem Forever ,grrr...

edit: that google translation is awful, found an english source:
http://www.edge-online.com/news/namco-bandai-to-swallow-atari-europe
 
By the way, I wouldn't count out games like Planescape: Torment hitting GOG completely, given that CD Projekt, the owner of GOG is now re-releasing Torment in Poland again (and they already re-released BG and IWD). If they managed to get the rights for Poland, maybe they'll be able to get worldwide digital distribution rights from both Atari and IPLY too? Note the Atari, not IPLY, logo on the box. Looks like I was wrong and Atari might have all the rights after all.
 
Umm not to be a spoil sport but something might be wrong here. I tend to go to Kotaku for the majority of my gaming news (as well as reporting gaming news to them, usually from information gathered here) take a look at their recently released NPD sales charts:

http://kotaku.com/5255216/and-the-20-top+selling-pc-games-for-april-were

1. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe
3. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest
4. Company Of Heroes: Tales Of Valour
5. Empire: Total War
6. World Of Warcraft
7. Left 4 Dead
8. DemiGod
9. Diablo Battle Chest
10. The Sims 2 Apartment Life
11. Spore
12. Warcraft III Battle Chest
13. Starcraft: Battle Chest
14. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade
15. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War II
16. Sim City Box
17. Bejeweled Twist
18. Fallout 3
19. The Sims 2 Pets
20. Hidden & Dangerous 2

which was verified ALSO by an article on edge:

http://www.edge-online.com/news/npd-aprils-top-20-pc-games

I'm very confused.
 
Ausir said:
By the way, I wouldn't count out games like Planescape: Torment hitting GOG completely, given that CD Projekt, the owner of GOG is now re-releasing Torment in Poland again (and they already re-released BG and IWD). If they managed to get the rights for Poland, maybe they'll be able to get worldwide digital distribution rights from both Atari and IPLY too? Note the Atari, not IPLY, logo on the box. Looks like I was wrong and Atari might have all the rights after all.
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Unfortunately they only have rights to distribute the localised versions (they made the localisation for said games) and probably only have distribution rights in polland.
 
Ausir said:
Note the Atari, not IPLY, logo on the box. Looks like I was wrong and Atari might have all the rights after all.
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Figures. I guess it was part of the deal Interplay made to finalize its debt tie-ups with Atari, huh?
 
Unfortunately they only have rights to distribute the localised versions (they made the localisation for said games) and probably only have distribution rights in polland.
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Yes, but if they made such deal for localized version in Poland, they might make a deal for GOG as well eventually.
 
Ausir said:
Yes, but if they made such deal for localized version in Poland, they might make a deal for GOG as well eventually.
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We can only hope. Considering poor financial situation of Infogrames and it selling lot of its IP and holdings past few years, anything is possible. They might even end up selling rest of Atari to someone willing to buy it (maybe to EA, surely they need to add to the gigantic pile of IP they allready sit on :twisted: ).
 
Heh EA.
Occasionally when I read articles about how the the numbers of Publishers/Developers shrinking, EA's head honcho's tell how the economic recession is helping weeding out the weaker companies, allowing the stronger one to increase their hold.

EA does have a lot of hold but not because they offer superior quality products, one might even say that games have suffered since EA has become so big, if not from DRM, then in quality.

If they see some way to make quick cash out of it I don't think it would be impossible for EA to buy Atari in order to get the IPs that go with it.
 
Brother None said:
Friggin' hell dudes, Interplay back in the NPD top 10 PC sales? Something is broken here, either NPD, the PC industry or THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE®
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if the game charts are anything like the music charts in Europe, then well... lets say i know from a very reliable source that it's all fake.

the lists are drawn up from the various sales sources, then possible 'abuses' are deleted from the figures (like someone buying the same 600 CDs at once at a store) and the figures are then handed to management.

management with all their benevolent almighty wisdom decides what is 'possible' and what isn't. so Tool's new CD? heh, that shouldn't be inthere! scratch that! and they also add MOAR POP!

and then the figures are doctored and published. no one can ever know how the charts are drawn up, under the guise that revealing that information would open the door to abuse that cannot be checked against.

hooray!
 
I would be most appreciative if someone who bought this collection could go to the registry and tell me where the key is installed to.

Just go to your start menu, run, regedit and browse to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\

This is where the original and GOG version have installed to, so I assume this will be the case again. Either post here or send me a pm.

Thanks a bunch!!
 
The Dutch Ghost said:
Heh EA.
Occasionally when I read articles about how the the numbers of Publishers/Developers shrinking, EA's head honcho's tell how the economic recession is helping weeding out the weaker companies, allowing the stronger one to increase their hold.

EA does have a lot of hold but not because they offer superior quality products, one might even say that games have suffered since EA has become so big, if not from DRM, then in quality.

If they see some way to make quick cash out of it I don't think it would be impossible for EA to buy Atari in order to get the IPs that go with it.
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EA seems to work like a mutual fund to me. Buy a shitload of different stocks. Have the successful stocks offset the losers. Same thing in games, get a shitload of intellectual properties and mass produce shit. Let the high selling games offset the really shitty games.
 
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