Atari to buy Mobygames?

[zzip]

In Soviet Russia, Moby buys Atari Games

 

[Mockduck]

This is smart for Atari, although I too share concerns that this kind of ownership of a largely crowd-funded commercial database has the potential to kill it. They'll now have access to all of that info for production at the very least, access to the user base for marketing, and the Antstream infrastructure could someday be their version of cloud game streaming. 

[Greg2600]

Awful news, I suspect Mobygames will be systematically destroyed.  There's really no other outcome.

[jefffulton]

There is a very good Podcast Episode of The Life and Times of Video Games on Moby Games. They need funding. Possibly Atari can help. Keeping my fingers crossed. 

[Lord Mushroom]

On 11/30/2021 at 10:16 PM, high voltage said:

What happened to the guy who purchased Atari?

If you are talking about Frederic Chesnais, he has sold most of his Atari shares, and is now focusing on his own crypto company.

[Draxxon]

I don't see why Atari would want to shut down MobyGames. I don't think this is the same sort of thing as NintendoAge. What would they gain from shutting it down? Also, they advertise products through them. So, again, why would they shut them down and hide the info there?

 

 

Edited December 16, 2021 by Draxxon