March 13 [2008]

Atari comes to Steam, continues to hemorrhage money

Filed under: Games (Also Video), Games (Video), Scientific Discovery — wedge55 @ 7:47 AM

Arrow pointing down

At long last, Atari/Infogrames/Whatever they call themselves these days has pledged their support for Steam. Admittedly, it’s a rather half-hearted opening slavo, featuring half a dozen budget titles that few people will care about and fewer still will have even heard of in the first place. Selections range from the dissappointinly stupid Indigo Prophecy to ArmA: Combat Operations, a first-person shooter made by people who haven’t played an FPS in the last decade. Still, the floodgates have been opened, and hopefully it won’t be too long before we see the library of superior Atrai titles already available through Steam’s offensively named rival service, Direct2Drive, show up on Valve’s own content delivery system. I want to buy Neverwinter Nights 2 and the expansion that supposedly makes it fun, Atari, but I’ll only do so through Steam. Get to work, Phil Harrison. Of course, the chances of this actually saving Atari from its third violent death are slim to an immanent EA buyout.

8 Comments »

  1. I remember ArmA. Wasn’t that great? It was great.

    Comment by vector_black — March 13 [2008] @ 8:38 AM

  2. The last time I cried from laughing so hard was when mike and I orchestrated mid-air collisions with our WWI biplanes on a custom arma map.

    Comment by popcornchicken — March 13 [2008] @ 10:52 AM

  3. UKNOWN. AIRPLANE. 500 METERS.

    For an ultra modern strategic warfare simulation flying airplanes into other vehicles was about as fun as that game got.

    Comment by Leadpipe — March 13 [2008] @ 11:51 AM

  4. I never had so much fun trying to figure out where the chat key was.

    Comment by vector_black — March 13 [2008] @ 11:58 AM

  5. Which one; theres Vehicle chat, squad chat, batallion chat, side chat, local chat, global chat….

    Comment by Leadpipe — March 13 [2008] @ 12:54 PM

  6. sup

    Comment by hahndog — March 13 [2008] @ 4:11 PM

  7. remember when my steam account was impossible to use

    Comment by hahndog — March 13 [2008] @ 4:11 PM

  8. “In the coming weeks, The Witcher®, the award winning RPG of 2007, Neverwinter Nights™ 2 and the expansion pack NeverWinter Nights™ 2: Mask of the Betrayer - the sequel to one of the best-selling and genre-defining role-playing games ever – will also be added to Atari’s Steam lineup.”

    So much for reading my own link. LOL and junk.

    Comment by wedge55 — March 13 [2008] @ 4:24 PM

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