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Everlost_MI
07-21-2005, 06:12 AM
Gamerfeed (http://www.gamerfeed.com/) has posted a story (http://general.gamerfeed.com/gf/pr/9039/) concerning the sale of the Acclaim name as well as the Mirra Freestyle BMX and ATV Quad Power Racing 2 licenses.

Here's a bit from the article...
According to Newsday.com, the Acclaim Entertainment name is going to be sold for $100,000 to Central Investment Holdings. Also, Crave Entertainment is looking to purchase the Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX series and the ATV Quad Power Racing 2 game for a combined total of $120,000. Both deals are pending a potential higher bid from another company in the next few weeks. Neither Central Investment Holdings nor Crave has indicated what they will do with their respective properties once they have them.

Maybe they can turn the Acclaim name around?
Rakael
07-21-2005, 06:14 AM
That really isn't much money.
Ernst_Jager
07-21-2005, 06:29 AM
lets do a fund raiser and buy these as the EA community.
TrackZero
07-21-2005, 06:41 AM
lets do a fund raiser and buy these as the EA community.

We can have a bake sale! ;)

Oh how far Acclaim has fallen....
Commissar Rob
07-21-2005, 07:11 AM
Hmmm, why invest in a name that's more of a liability than an asset? There's an idea that has definitely come from a committee.
jeffool
07-21-2005, 07:55 AM
Seriously. I just wish companies like Acclaim and Atari could fold and go away. Let these names disappear so that years from now we can remember the good games they put out, think fondly of them, and maybe pine for their return. Fond remembrance is so much better than continued disappointment.
Blue
07-21-2005, 07:58 AM
If I pitch in money for this bake-sale of ours and make some of my special crumb cake, we best be making a Wreslemania game. With the Ultimate Warrior.
if76
07-21-2005, 10:57 AM
Didn't the Atari name go for millions and millions of dollars? I guess they probably also got a backcatalog of atari properties but how much is that worth?
Kagger
07-21-2005, 12:31 PM
What does purchasing the name mean? I am unfamiliar with this concept. Does it give the right to publish with the name? What happens to their dev studios?
netcraazzy
07-21-2005, 12:44 PM
Does it give the right to publish with the name?

That's basically what it is. Just like Atari.
B_Money
07-21-2005, 01:22 PM
Obligitary Penny Arcade comic:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php?date=2002-10-18&res=l
Kagger
07-21-2005, 03:54 PM
Who bought Atari (i started following games about 3.5 years ago...the fall before I got my ps2). I remember hearing it got sold though...
mister_slim
07-21-2005, 07:55 PM
How much for The Red Star, anyway? Unfinished would be fine. The demo was fun, but it seems to have ceased to exist.
Who bought Atari (i started following games about 3.5 years ago...the fall before I got my ps2). I remember hearing it got sold though...
Infogrames.