Atari Tries to Gather Steam

Atari has announced that many of their their games are now or will be shortly available on Valve's Steam service. Games like Act of War and Rollercoaster Tycoon 3: Platinum are supposed to be available now while other big titles like Neverwinter Nights 2 and it's expansion will be released early in the future.

With Atari's ongoing business crisis could this be the boost it needs to stay in business? I doubt it, but it might just generate enough buzz for a possible buy out. A la...Infogrames

EA needs to work out hostility issues

According to joystiq and substantiated by other news sites, EA today has begun their hostile take over of Take 2 Interactive

They have put a public offer for 26 dollars per share, above the current value of the company.

Whether this newest move by EA will be successful or not will be decided by April 11th, the closing date of this offer, unless they extend it.

One thing can be certain, if EA succeeds in this, 2k games will be no more. Who knows, maybe they'll keep the people from 2k games and madden might actually be playable.

How much is enough? Really EA, you already have a bad rep from your previous business practices and now you come out of the games with this. This may be good business but it's shitty PR and gamers hold grudges.

As for the fate of GTA, that remains to be seen.