Shannon "Poz" Posniewski, the main person behind Champions Online that made this hero based MMORPG a free-to-play title, has announced departure from Cryptic Studios. In a recent news post available on the official Champions Online website more details on this theme can be found. Also to add, Rob Overmeyer has been announced as the man that is going to replace Mr. Posniewski and will continue to lead Champions Online game in future.
Atari has acquired Intellivision. The company announced today that it had acquired its long-time rival, ending one of the original console rivalries, dating back to the 1970s.
Wow.... two of my earliest gaming platforms. All they need is Coleco to round things out.
This is like Nintendo buying SEGA.
Good piece of history here.
edit: I wanted to read it but the cookies pop up is stopping me.
This was just before my time. I do remember my mom's friend having one all dusty in her apartment back in the day.
[R.I.P.} Ms. Irene
People forget that console wars are part of the history of this industry. The console wars were started by competitive companies all the way back then and continued through Sega vs Nintendo, Jaguar/3DO/NeonGeo, and PlayStation vs Nintendo and Xbox.
These companies are across oceans and competing for the same business. These companies created the console wars, not crazy fanboys.
I had both. Snafu on Intellivision was addicting as hell. Also had Colecovision which had Time Pilot. Combat was probably my favorite Atari game and both Atari and Intellivision had similar games like Pitfall and Jungle Hunt. It’s been so long I don’t really remember which game I liked bettter out of those but I did play my Intellivision a bit more than Atari though I’m not sure why besides Snafu. That was 40+ years ago damn I’m old lol
The armadillo returns.
I personally do remember Infogrames in the years prior to merger. They really did have a portfolio that stuck out and I enjoyed. I wonder what value they see in reviving it now though?
The good old days of Driver and Stuntman. Unfortunately both games are long gone.
Skewed and Reviewed have posted a video showing what Atari had on display at PAX East 2024.
Played it when it became free, took me 5 mins to realise it was a seriously crap game that I wouldn't play even if they payed me. What the hell were they thinking releasing such utter drivel?! I can see now why the Marvel mmo (which was being developed by Cryptic) was cancelled, Marvel must of seen their work and cancelled the project immediately.
I'm surprised they weren't able to beat cov/coh, they were shit too but still...