Infogrames was renamed to Atari in 2003 after they purchased 51.2 percent of Atari, Inc. Since then the Atari curse has been stripping it of all their cash reserves and market cap.
Infogrames was great at making games (they had an uber cool armadillo as their logo), with franchises such as Test Drive, Alone In The Dark, Sid Meier's Games (Civilization, Pirates etc..) , Chris Sawyer's Games (Railroad Tycoon, Rollercoaster Tycoon etc..), Driver, Stuntman, Unreal and Developers like Shiny, Accolade and Gremlin.
However the Curse of Atari was too great for them and it eventually forced them to sell of their ip's like Stuntman to THQ and developers Reflections + Driver IP Interactive to Ubisoft, Shiny to foundation 9. With Sony publishing games by Quadratic Realms (Indigo Prophecy) they lost yet another qualified developer. Ubisoft is developing/publishing the next Naruto game on the Xbox 360.
Atari seems to be losing barrels of money developing almost very few games. They need to tighten their belt and drop the Atari to get rid of the curse :-p
Heeeeyyyy!!!! <Snap>
