Atari Brand Leaving European Continent

In Europe, Atari is no more. The company's sales and marketing staff will be transferred to the newly-formed business Distribution Partners, reports industry site MCV.

Hoping to beefed up its business resume, Distribution Partners is handling all Namco Bandai releases in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Last March, Namco Bandai picked up a 34 percent stake in Atari Europe and is expected to acquire the remaining 66 percent from Atari parent Infogrames.

"We believe that DP will become a wholly-owned Namco Bandai games company soon," said Atari's European marketing head David Miller, "but this process requires time and we will comment further when we have an anticipated closing date."

Atari in America is still alive and plans to become an online-centric content producer. Even though Atari Europe is no more, Atari will have a UK branch in a London studio opened last September and headed up by former SingStar director Paulina Bozek.

http://kotaku.com/5253577/atari-brand-leaving-european-continent

I thought you had fixed this gooseberry fool Phil

That'll explain the Ghostbusters publishing hand-off to Sony.

NickSCFC

I love seeing the Atari logo on game packaging, they're the oldest gaming logo going in the west, sniff :cry:

Getting no sympathy from me.

They won't be missed.

Take it Ghostbusters won't be a timed exclusive now then

Namco FINALLY set up a European distribution service. It's about damn time.

KKLEIN wrote:Getting no sympathy from me.

Atari Brand Leaving European Continent

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