Alone in the Dark

ATARI UK are running a January Sale of their own, suggested by a brief visit to the online ATARI store. Available now til 10th February, 2009, any purchases with a total value exceeding £9.99 will be eligible for a £3 discount – equivalent to a 30% reduction on many titles!

That Gaming Site Writes: Since it's release Alone in the Dark has received some pretty harsh criticism regarding the control scheme. Even we here at That Gaming Site admit the controls could use some work! Atari has taunted us with a patch that may never make it to the Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game! Instead of waiting for the day that may never come we have found a way to make your experience with the controls a little more tolerable!

Gamedaily.biz writes: Break out the champagne. After endless losses, Atari has posted a net income of $3.5 million for its first quarter. The release of Alone in the Dark was a big factor. A couple weeks ago French publisher Infogrames reported its own first quarter fiscal results, revealing a 91 percent rise in sales, which was driven in large part by a strong recovery of the U.S. business (i.e. Infogrames' subsidiary Atari). Today, Atari announced its own fiscal results, and Infogrames wasn't kidding: Atari posted a profit of $3.5 million for the quarter, a vast improvement from the net loss of $11.9 million during the same period last year.

Atari have announced that Alone in the Dark for PS3 will be undergoing improvements, rather than just being a direct port of the Xbox 360 version.

Videogamer writes: Atari has revealed it wants more from its major summer release, Alone in the Dark, despite the title placing at No.1 in the Xbox 360 chart and at No.3 in the All Formats chart. The positive review scores continue to come in and marketing support is scheduled to run through to the end of August, Atari product manager Ben Walker told MCV. Our target now is to build upon the start and keep Alone in the Dark selling through-out the summer We found Alone in the Dark to be one of the most disappointing games of the year so far, scoring only 6/10 despite much early promise and plenty of good ideas

Highlights this week include Battlefield: Bad Company (Xbox 360/PS3), Alone in the Dark (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PC) and The Sims 2: IKEA Home Stuff (PC). Check out the full list of new video game releases (USA) for the week of June 22, 2008 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Sony PS2, PSP, Nintendo DS, and PC!

Atari has issued a statement to Gamesindustry.biz about the recent reviews of Alone in the Dark. The company said that it's happy with UK reviews of AITD, but refused to comment when asked about the legal rumours that have started appearing on the web. We're happy with the review scores in the UK, a spokesperson explained. We believe the game speaks for itself.

Ripten's Chad Lakkis writes: The past few weeks of videogame publisher drama have been for the most part dedicated to the dispute between Tecmo and their former Rockstar/Director Tomonobu Itagaki, however Tecmo will need to move over and make room for another old school publisher. German videogame site 4players.de claims to be involved in apparent legal battle with Atari stemming from the sites review of Alone in the Dark, a multiplatform horror/action game published by Atari in June of 2008. Keeping in mind that the original article is in German, and it is well beyond the normal business hours we would utilize to obtain a comment from Atari, we were able to loosely interpret the following information from the public complaint aired on the German gaming site:

There's quite a list of games due for release tomorrow across Europe, check 'em out below. Notable titles include survival horror Alone In The Dark 5 and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII

From XboxOZ360: Okay gamers, time to get your friends together for an additional competition from Atari regarding the great Alone In The Dark game due for release early July. You need to form the largest group of friends in Facebook and 'Keep The Home Fires Burning' in order to win some excellent prizes. The flame of the 'Keep the Fire Burning' competition is being passed on to Facebook following the launch of the original competition on the official Alone in the Dark website www.CentralDark.com. The competition will run until 31 July 2008 with prizes including Xbox 360 and Wii consoles, and Alone in the Dark original soundtrack CDs. Entrants to the 'Keep the Fire Burning' competition will need to create the largest group of friends for the chance of winning an inferno of prizes.