Atari has announced that it has acquired the rights to hundreds of intellectual properties dating back to the 1980s and 1990s involving the catalogs of publishers such as Micropose, Infogrames and Accolade. As reported by Eurogamer, Atari now owns the Accolade trademark.
Unfortunately, a list of all the newly acquired IPs has not been released, but we know that among these there are the series of Bubsy, Demolition Racer, Hardball, 1942: Pacific Air War, as well as the F-117A and F-14 aerial combat games . Atari says these purchases will allow the company to expand the physical and digital distribution of these titles, bringing some of them to consoles for the first time. the possibility of creating new video games based on the newly acquired IPs is not excluded.
What has just happened is part of a broader strategy that aims to strengthen the role of Atari in the video game industry, especially in relation to the video game sagas of the past. It is no coincidence, in fact, that the company is about to complete the acquisition of Nightdive Studiosspecialized precisely in the restoration of video games with more than a few years on his shoulders.
