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#13101: Sep 3rd 2025 at 5:15:27 AM

There's that No One Lives Forever game where the rights are all over the place, mostly involving dead companies.

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#13102: Sep 3rd 2025 at 6:03:23 AM

These are just the well-known ones. There are countless others that have been lost to time from long dead companies such as Jaleco, Data East, Taito, Acclaim, etc. There's also Color Dream but their games are unlicensed anyways and can stay dead.

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#13103: Sep 3rd 2025 at 6:12:37 AM

Technically, from a legal point of view, whilst the company holding the rights to those intellectual properties are dissolved, the rights over the intellectual properties still exist and should still be transferable. The issue is, nobody really cares about extinct IPs enough to make an offer to whoever may be an holder of the rights to buy them. Nobody is raring to get the rights to Acro The Bat or Mac and Joe.

Well, not yet atleast. I honestly enjoy working and developing the ideas of others, so if I had the wallet and resources, I wouldn't mind atleast reuniting the IPs under the same roof to bring them back in the public spotlight through re-releases. Just go on any abandonware site, there is a gold mine of stuff just waiting for someone to come get it.

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#13104: Sep 3rd 2025 at 6:17:11 AM

Definitely remember some extinct games such as Tuff E Nuff (Dead Dance in Japan), Legendary Axe, Saint Sword, Weaponlord and Battle Blaze. As well as some personally nostalgic classics such as Dark Edge. And all of this isn't even counting the IPs from living companies but are no doubt dead such as Eternal Champions. Which is why Ninja Warriors and Wild Guns getting official remakes is a pleasant surprise.

Edited by KRider on Sep 3rd 2025 at 9:17:39 PM

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#13105: Sep 3rd 2025 at 4:21:40 PM

iirc Acclaim stuff is now owned by a new company and is the one behind licensing Forsaken and Turok. Taito meanwhile got bought by SE. Dunno about the other two but I believe Data East is handled by a new party?

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#13106: Sep 3rd 2025 at 7:32:03 PM

Looking at the Night Slashers remake, it was developed by Storm Trident S.A. while it was published by Forever Entertainment S.A. so not sure if it's any indication of whether they own Data East's rights or if it's all been scattered to the winds.

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#13107: Sep 3rd 2025 at 11:30:50 PM

[up][up]Basically Data East is owned by G-Mode, which in turn is a subsidiary of Marvelous.

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#13108: Sep 4th 2025 at 3:59:19 PM

Layoffs at Civilization devs Fireaxis.

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#13109: Sep 4th 2025 at 7:21:21 PM

Double post: Ubisoft's audio guy for their Snowdrop engine claims that read speeds of Switch 2 carts is the reason behind the heavy adoption of Game Key Cards by third parties because third parties are developing for solid-state drives first.

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#13110: Sep 4th 2025 at 11:06:00 PM

There has to be a better way to, you know, put the game on the cart which is why it doesnt look like people are buying?

Call gamers bratty but game keys are trying to justify an unpopular format

Edited by M1gamiTensei on Sep 4th 2025 at 11:08:36 AM

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#13111: Sep 5th 2025 at 12:30:54 AM

Interesting. So the whole "cart vs sd express vs internal" speed actually matters.

[up]So far no cart tech could match it unless they become sd express-like. And that means bumping up the price. The alternatives are getting the game as key-in-the-box or just buying digitally.

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#13112: Sep 26th 2025 at 8:33:07 PM

Several private investment firms are talking with EA to jointly leverage buyout the company and take it private so they can milk it for all its worth.

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#13113: Sep 26th 2025 at 8:39:12 PM

Granted, I doubt people are attached to the EA name anymore. Only the IP itself

How many game companies Saudi Arabia got their teeth sunk into, because this is the biggest acquirement for the country

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#13114: Sep 27th 2025 at 1:55:04 AM

(Bloomberg) — Electronic Arts Inc., known for popular video-game titles such as and , is in talks to be acquired by a group of US investors with backing from Saudi Arabia, according to people with the matter.

That typo in the Yahoo Finance article can't be 100% an accident. Is that some subtle jab implying they can't think of a single great EA game anymore or something?

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#13115: Sep 27th 2025 at 2:05:28 AM

No, I've seen news sites accidentally keep misspells more since the AI use started. Its weird because you'd think with AI, these things would be found out more. Guess that is a consequence of news breaking being somehow more competitive and fast.

There are a lot of EA franchises that are popular you can easily name. Battlefield, Madden, Fifa, Skate, Mass Effect, Dead Space, Bejeweled, The Sims, Burnout, Dragon Age, Plants vs Zombies, definitely not Anthem. It is pretty much a goof because I guess the reporter behind the article doesnt play games to know and was moving too fast to research

Edited by M1gamiTensei on Sep 27th 2025 at 2:05:48 AM

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#13116: Sep 27th 2025 at 3:18:59 AM

That's the baffling part, EA's library is pretty well-known and with a long history. Would've only taken a few seconds of google-fu to find more than a few of their famous franchises. And that they couldn't even be bothered to do so implies a good chunk of that article was AI-generated.

Edited by SgtRicko on Sep 27th 2025 at 3:19:55 AM

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#13118: Sep 27th 2025 at 9:11:32 AM

Don't forget SSX. *Cries in not having a game since 2012*

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#13119: Sep 27th 2025 at 9:30:07 AM

Sadly, the disconnect between investors and gamers is titanic.

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Ookamikun This is going to be so much fun. (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#13120: Sep 28th 2025 at 9:07:53 AM

It's probably yahoo news copying format poorly. Here's the actual article from bloomberg, but it's paywalled. Google search the games it mentioned are NFL and MLB. EDIT: Battlefield, not MLB.

Edited by Ookamikun on Sep 28th 2025 at 10:42:42 AM

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#13121: Sep 28th 2025 at 9:37:05 AM

That aint even right for the MLB. Those are made by Sony

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#13122: Sep 28th 2025 at 10:42:30 AM

[up]My bad, it's NFL and Battlefield.

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#13123: Sep 29th 2025 at 6:55:20 AM

Apparently it’s official, per the AP.

Subject to shareholder approval and regulatory yadda-yadda.

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#13124: Sep 29th 2025 at 6:56:46 AM

Saudi Arabia's takeover of the game industry continues to become increasingly worrying and dangerous.


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