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Infogames and Hasboro Sign New Licensing Agreement - News @
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Kristophe
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Infogames and Hasboro Sign New Licensing Agreement - News @
   

GameGossp's Andrew 'Talon' Wilson brings us this rather surprising industry <a href="http://www.gamegossip.com/pressrelease.php?id=13649" target="_blank">news</a> re Hasboro and Infogames... <br> <br><blockquote><em>In a surprise move, Hasbro Inc and Infogrames Entertainment SA jointly announced this morning that Hasbro has reacquired its digital gaming rights for its various properties from Infogrames. Held by Infogrames on an exclusive basis due to the licensing agreement that came up with the purchase of Hasbro Interactive and Games.com in December 2000, the move of reacquisition was done for $65 million. Under the move, Infogrames and Hasbro have entered into a new licensing agreement that gives Infogramesrights to 10 Hasbro franchises, including: Dungeons & Dragons, Monopoly, Scrabble, Game Of Life, Battleship, Clue, Yahtzee, Simon and Risk And Boggle. <br> <br>"We think this is a great move for both companies," said Alfred J. Verrecchia, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hasbro, Inc. "This new agreement allows Hasbro to fully exploit its' brands in a wide variety of growth platforms including next generation consoles, around the world, while at the same time giving Infogrames the rights to 10 popular Hasbro brands." <br> <br>Getting into the specifics, Infogrames has the exclusive rights to Dungeons & Dragons in all interactive formats for the next 10 years, with three new titles planned for release this year and next by Atari, including: D&D Online, NeverWinter Nights 2 and Dragonshard. As far as the other games in the deal go, Infogrames has seven-year licenses on those titles. Check back for more news as it develops.</em></blockquote>
Post Thu Jun 09, 2005 12:30 pm
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@ Kristophe

Did you misspell the two game companies on purpose or did you only write the news too fast

I thought Infogrames was renamed in ATARI ?
Post Thu Jun 09, 2005 12:36 pm
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Neither - I merely quoted from the source of my report, and purposefully chose to use the Corporate names as per the news release!
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Post Thu Jun 09, 2005 1:09 pm
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Actually, no he didn't. Infogrames is still, the name of the French parent company. I guess it is some business stuff that us ordinary people are not meant to understand ...
Post Thu Jun 09, 2005 1:13 pm
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i see
Post Thu Jun 09, 2005 2:37 pm
 
Ratavuk
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Whoops.

The guest was me.

Oh well, then i will have to readjust my knowledge base- thanks
Post Thu Jun 09, 2005 2:46 pm
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Yes, Infogrames still exists . Atari is their publishing label. It's similar to how Take Two Interactive publishes most games under their 2K Games label.
Post Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:06 pm
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This is confusing

Me and my buddy are debating what just happened here.

It looks like Infogrames/Atari bought the rights of these games from Hasbro.com not to be confused with Hasbro Inc.

Hasbro Inc. bought these rights back for $65 million dollars for use with consoles, minus the rights to these particular titles for PC for the next 10 years.
Post Fri Jun 10, 2005 3:16 am
 



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