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Atari does it again: Riddick Copy Protection Controversy

Andrew Bryant — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:57:00 +0000

And it was all going soooooo well…

After generating huge amounts of positive hype following the salvation of both Riddick: Dark Athena & Ghostbusters from the murky depths of development purgatory following Actizzard-gate, Atari seemed to be on track to score two successive hits.

Only, as usual for Atari, they fucked it up… again!

Despite the overwhelming negative press and public reaction to anti-piracy methods such as SecuROM (coupled with the blatant proof that they are useless and penalise the wrong users) which forced even huge mega-corps such as EA & Ubisoft to back down on using them in their … Read More...

Diesel Power: Riddick Dark Athena Intro

Andrew Bryant — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:16:27 +0000

Escape from Butcher Bay was really a diamond in the rough – a first person shooter on consoles that did something different from day one & serves nicely as an example of a tie-in game that was a) completely unrelated to its companion movie and b) significantly better than said motion picture too boot!

Originally released for the Xbox, it was nicely ported to the PC in the expanded form of a Developer Cut (which included a groundbreaking commentary setup since adopted by big names like Valve). It never made it to the current generation consoles due to various technical … Read More...