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Destineer acquires Atomic Games
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Posted by Donster on: 2005-05-06 17:15:10 865
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Close Combat publisher acquires the studio that developed the series.
Thanks GameSpot
Destineer Studios will announce on Friday that it has acquired wargame developer Atomic Games. The deal will bring the Close Combat series home to roost with its current publisher and integrate Atomic with MacSoft, a company that produces and publishes Macintosh games. Atomic Games, in a former life during the early '90s, produced games for both the PC and Macintosh.
Destineer was founded in 2001 by former Bungie executive vice president Peter Tamte. Tamte has had a long history with the Macintosh platform and was once senior director of worldwide consumer marketing at Apple. Destineer's CEO, Paul Rinde, was a senior vice president of Atari and a cofounder of the WizardWorks Group. In 2003, Destineer purchased MacSoft from Infogrames.
Atomic Games is best known for its Close Combat series, first released in 1996. While the current release of the game, Close Combat: First to Fight, is a first-person tactical shooter, previous installments were World War II-based real-time strategy games. The company's earlier hit series, V for Victory, was also a World War II-based wargame, though it used tiles instead of animated squads of soldiers.
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