Acclaim Lives!

[Wizard]

Acclaim Website

 

The Acclaim we grew up with is dead--we've known this for months, but the reforged company has a new website and is seeking beta testers for its new title Bots, a free MMOG that hopes to stay afloat using in-game advertising and micro-transactions.

 

The only other game mentioned on their rather simple website is 9Dragons, but little is shown of the game besides some pretty pictures and a short CG movie. As GameIndustry notes, new owners Howard Marks and Ken Chan hope to "build a community that leverages the familiarity with and loyalty to the Acclaim brand."

 

Loyalty to Acclaim, eh? Call us cynical, but Turok this is not.

-Joystiq

[Tynvar]

9Dragons looks interesting. Bots doesn't.

[Agozer]

9Dragons huh? Looks promising.

 

Well, at leastthe scarce artwork does.

[ken_cinder]

Server not found

 

Firefox can't find the server at www.acclaim.com.

 

Wow bankrupt already?

[Tynvar]

Server not found

 

Firefox can't find the server at www.acclaim.com.

 

Wow bankrupt already?

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That's strange, I can get there fine. I clicked the link above.

[ken_cinder]

Worked about 15 minutes after I posted that. Talk about suckage for games though, Bots looks lame, real lame.

[Tynvar]

Well if you remember Acclaims old days it was never a heavy contender. Always making those games on movie licenses that stunk.

[Lucandrake]

Bot may look lame but you never know .

[Samor]

well, with infogrames going Atari they at least tried to look like the old company.

This is just something entirely different with the same name....

[Wizard]

well, with infogrames going Atari they at least tried to look like the old company.

This is just something entirely different with the same name....

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The only difference is, 2 brothers bought the company as oppose to Infogrames buying out Atari.

[Samor]

hm.. but at that time Atari was heavily Hasbrodified, wasn't it?