Games @sh.itjust.works Nemeski @lemm.ee 3w ago

Atari acquires Transport Tycoon IP

www.gamesindustry.biz Atari acquires Transport Tycoon IP

Atari has made an agreement with veteran games developer Chris Sawyer to acquire his iconic management game Transport T…

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Worth mentioning to anyone who is excited for a possible new version of this title but hates AAA ethics, OpenTTD is FOSS and pretty good.

Alternatively if you'd like a modern take on this, Mashinky is super good and was made by a 1-man studio. It's also beautiful. (And multiplayer!)
- The first thing that crossed my mind is that they might try to cancel OpenTTD. Chris Sawyer reportedly wasn't too happy about OpenTTD but didn't too much against it, maybe recognising that it is a fan tribute. Nobody can expect that of Ataris's corporate lawyers.
  
  This comment makes me sad because you are probably right. Mashinky it is!
  
  It's not like they can do anything about it. OpenTTD does not even use any of the original assets anymore.
This sounds rather bad for Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe (https://www.openttd.org/)
I didn't realize Atari owned most of those style games, they basically deadlocked that market to themselves, interesting
- They have a crazy history of buying and selling companies and IPs.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_SA#History
  
  When they have good times they buy what they can, then when they hit hard times it all ends up offered in a fire sale.
- thanks, patent laws
Atari? Don't they mean Infogrames?
- They renamed themselves to atari after buying atari
  
  To add to the confusion Atari announced earlier this year that they would restore the Infogrames brand as a publishing label.
  
  Now we get stuff like this :
  
  Yes, so they mean Infogrames.
  
  The current Atari is Atari in name only.

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