In Lyon, France today Atari has announced its fiscal results for the first quarter ended June 30. Total revenues were up 30.1% to 54.5 million euros, thanks mainly to the success of two titles: Ghostbusters: The Video Game and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.
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The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, the follow-up to moody, stealth action first-person shooter, Escape From Butcher Bay, is now available at retailers in all PAL territories, including South Africa, for your consumption on the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
Here's this weeks European Games Releases for the week beginning 19/04/09. Highlights for this week include Bionic Commando and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena for PS3 and Xbox 360. Also the abysmal Rock Revolution hits PAL Territories.
411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include Oboro Muramasa, Suggoi! Arcana Heart 2, Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, Hammerin' Hero, Professor Heinz Wolff's Gravity, and Rhythm Heaven.
IGN writes: "The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is still a couple of weeks away, but already plans are in the works to provide bonus content. The multiplayer mode (an element missing from the original Riddick game) includes a total of 15 maps. While pricing and release date are unknown at this time, five more maps are coming as downloadable content."
One Step Closer To Becoming The Galaxy's Most Notorious Criminal with Development Complete on Anticipated New Game – 'Assault On Dark Athena' Brings Riddick into Multiplayer Realm for First Time with Six Intense Online Combat Modes.
TVGB: "Can you imagine Vin Diesel on his knees, staring up at you with his big ol' manly eyes, hands clasped together? Maybe some of you can, but I'd rather not know your fantasies, you sickos. However, for one individual over at developers Starbreeze that twisted dream became reality when Vin Diesel "begged" the makers of the new The Chronicles of Riddick game to include an online multiplayer mode."
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VG247: If you're a PS3 owner wanting to get your hands on the Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena demo that went up on Live this morning, best not to hold your breath: Atari just said it's "coming soon" in a press release.
PS3Trophies.org just added the trophy list for The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena . The game has 51 trophies.
Atari has updated their website for Chronicles Of Riddick: Assault On Dark Athena and added the North American release date for the game along with new screenshots.
TGR has discovered the demo release date for the Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena in an interview with a PR representative at the New York Comic Con.
Atari released some information about the cast of characters in the forthcoming Assault on Dark Athena.
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Eurogamer writes: "Atari has said that Assault on Dark Athena, the new adventure built on top of Escape from Butcher Bay, lasts about 11 hours, is based on an entirely new engine and features six multiplayer modes.
Eurogamer writes: "Vin Diesel's Tigon Studios has said it sees upcoming Riddick title Assault on Dark Athena as an "episodic expansion", revealing that work on a true sequel to the 2004 Xbox classic is already underway.
CVG writes: "Starbreeze has divulged details on Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena's unique multiplayer modes, including a poo-your-pants 'Pitch Black' game set, yes, in the dark.
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena features a ten-hour long campaign and puts players into the role of Riddick. Players will be "using stealth and action to overcome the merciless crew of the predatory Merc-ship Dark Athena which awaits its prey in the dark reaches of space. Cheating death through a series of spectacular battles and events, Riddick will fight for his life amid a storm of malevolence and horror."
That's right -- Dark Athena is not a remake of 2004's brilliant Escape from Butcher Bay. And when Universal Interactive's Bill Kispert called Athena's new campaign "robust," he wasn't kidding. This puppy clocks in at 10 hours.