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 21st November 2007, 5:47am
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 Resident Muton  Group: Fan Fiction Posts: 271 Joined: December 2004 From: Gold Coast, Australia Member No.: 261  |
I can never keep up with who owns the X-COM property and so I thought an easy way to find out would be to do a whois lookup on the domain x-com.com, and when I did, the Registrant came up as Rockstar Games, makers of the GTA series! I wonder why they would have it?
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21st November 2007, 8:54am
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Dances with Mutons Group: Site Staff Posts: 731 Joined: April 2005 From: Croatia Member No.: 3,529 |
Don't let that confuse you, Rockstar seems to be a publishing label of Take 2, much like 2K Games. The ownership of the IP seems to be spread out between Take 2's publishing labels, 2K Games and Rockstar included. I did that same whois a few days ago, but basically came up with nothing useful. I guess we'll have to see what ex-Irrational's new project is to be able to have those rumours confirmed or denied. Irrational recently got new web pages (2kboston.com and 2kaustralia.com) so I'm expecting some kind of news pretty soon. I think they're still working on the patch for Bioshock, so I guess some of their focus is on that.
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21st November 2007, 7:18pm
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Lieutenant Group: Members Posts: 193 Joined: August 2003 Member No.: 531 |
You mean Atari no longer owns the Xcom rights?
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21st November 2007, 8:31pm
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 Colonel Group: Admin Posts: 5,930 Joined: March 2003 From: Sweden Member No.: 1,057 |
QUOTE(infael @ 21st November 2007, 8:18pm)  You mean Atari no longer owns the Xcom rights? That is correct. 2K Games (or Take Two) are the current owners. -------------------- Greetings from Olav
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21st November 2007, 11:45pm
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Resident Muton Group: Fan Fiction Posts: 271 Joined: December 2004 From: Gold Coast, Australia Member No.: 261 |
QUOTE(infael @ 22nd November 2007, 5:18am) You mean Atari no longer owns the Xcom rights? From what I've read on Gamespot, Atari aren't doing too well at the moment and are selling off a lot of their intellectual properties and are getting out of the production biz. |
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4th December 2007, 11:53pm
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Resident Muton Group: Fan Fiction Posts: 271 Joined: December 2004 From: Gold Coast, Australia Member No.: 261 |
For those that are interested, I just came across a link to the United States Patent and Trademark Office that lists Atari as giving the following trademarks to Take Two:
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27th February 2008, 5:26pm
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 Tentacle Pentacle Group: Members Posts: 761 Joined: September 2002 From: XCOMIB Ireland Member No.: 566 |
Quite interesting! Thanks.
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4th March 2008, 8:37pm
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 Sailor Jupiter is hot Group: Members Posts: 567 Joined: May 2003 Member No.: 1,121 |
Looks like Atari is finally getting what it deserves. Hopefully Electronic Arts is next.
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