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Visualante2 · Mar 18, 2015

So yeah all the stuff we had ready or near ready will now never see the light of day.No TxK PC, PS4, Oculus, GearVR, Android. Thank "Atari".

Real disappointing, I was looking forward to playing it. Must be devastating to put in all that work just to have it shut down.

#freethellama

update: Eurogamer

He also claims Atari continue to "insist" TxK be removed from sale from the PlayStation Store, and he sign papers saying "I can never make a Tempest style game ever again".

Buy it now if you want it.

Doctor_Thomas · Mar 18, 2015

At least we have Vita.

Visualante2 · Mar 18, 2015

Doctor_Thomas said:
At least we have Vita.

My second thought was, will it be delisted as a result of this action?

phanboy4 · Mar 18, 2015

DANGIT. Why? TkX is amazing and I would totally play it on PS4 or Rift.

Graphics Horse · Mar 18, 2015

Huh they finally figured it was a tempest clone?

VNZ · Mar 18, 2015

Disgusting. Especially considering he actually developed Tempest 2000 for Atari when they were (sort of) still around as a game developer.

Sendou · Mar 18, 2015

phanboy4 said:
DANGIT. Why? TkX is amazing and I would totally play it on PS4 or Rift.

You can. Kind of.

oldmario · Mar 18, 2015

if you rearrange "thanks atari" what do you get? SATAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and rithak from the left over letters

Krakn3Dfx · Mar 18, 2015

PSTV w/ TxK is awesome, but yeah, this definitely sucks. Would love to have our on the ps4.

Zia · Mar 18, 2015

Absolutely fucking disgusting.

delaneya · Mar 18, 2015

Thats a crying shame. I was thinking only yesterday I would love this on my ps4. At least we have the vita.

southerncross · Mar 18, 2015

Terrible news. TxK must have been a wonderful sensory overload in VR.

panda-zebra · Mar 18, 2015

Atari. A legal team of arseholes, not nearly worthy of the name they parade around with.

They deserve a huge backlash for this.

nampad · Mar 18, 2015

True Vita exclusive, I guess you guys need to buy a Vita if you want to play

Wonder how it managed to get released on Vita though.

Mr.Pig · Mar 18, 2015

Atari bastards!

Massa · Mar 18, 2015

This is maddening. Atari has no rights at all here but the power to bully one independant developer.

dugdug · Mar 18, 2015

What a shame. One of my favorite games in recent years. Hopefully this gets fixed.

Orniletter · Mar 18, 2015

Man, what a bummer. The decaying corpse of Atari gets in the way of more people experiencing TxK .

Which Atari is this btw. ? The remnants of Infogrames US ?

Boogalogist · Mar 18, 2015

Fucking disgusting. Oh c'mon FFS, Atari... Llamaman is a legend.

GarciaHotspur · Mar 18, 2015

Maybe it's time to patch the game on Vita no ?

The 100% is stl impossible...

djplaeskool · Mar 18, 2015

That really fucking sucks.
Damnit.

TxK was one of my favorites from last year.

Easy_D · Mar 18, 2015

Atari being scum. Who'da thunk it. I would've bought it, I love Jeff Minter's crazy games a lot. Not a good week for Mr. Minter, he seems quite concerned with Nintendo going mobile as well.

Muskieratboi · Mar 18, 2015

Time to flood @atari and facebook.com/atari with complaints, people.

Jeff Minter's been indie since before Indie was a THING, and I will NOT see one of gaming's Pioneers fucked over like this.

Shinriji · Mar 18, 2015

Better get on vita before it get delisted.

Storm360 · Mar 18, 2015

This fucking sucks, I tried the rift demo and it's amazing

repeater · Mar 18, 2015

This is depressing. TxK is excellent and deserves a larger audience.
Does Atari really have any case here, legally speaking? You can't really copyright a genre.

Visualante2 · Mar 18, 2015

repeater said:
This is depressing. TxK is excellent and deserves a larger audience.
Does Atari really have any case here, legally speaking? You can't really copyright a genre.

Does it really matter, if Jeff can't afford to engage in a costly legal battle over a game? (which probably has quite limited reach)

Nabs · Mar 18, 2015

Wow, that's terrible. He put so much work into those ports. Damn.

Buzzman · Mar 18, 2015

While this is absolutely an asshole move, can't say I'm that surprised. Doesn't the game like also straight up use sound effects from other games aswell?

DirtyLarry · Mar 18, 2015

Damn this sucks. I have the Vita version and it is kick ass.

I obviously do not know all of the details, but my first thought was although it requires work on his end, what if he just changed the color scheme up? It is pretty much using the same color scheme as the original Tempest, so I am curious if it is changed some, if that would be enough to differentiate it from the original to say it is it's own game.

I am over simplifying things obviously, but you get the point. I wonder if there are any changes that could be done that would make it so they no longer have legal ground to stand on.

Brutuspedia · Mar 18, 2015

game is amazing on Vita, it's a shame...

Massa · Mar 18, 2015

This is maddening. Atari has no rights at all here but the power to bully one independant developer.

Easy_D · Mar 18, 2015

DirtyLarry said:
Damn this sucks. I have the Vita version and it is kick ass.

I obviously do not know all of the details, but my first thought was although it requires work on his end, what if he just changed the color scheme up? It is pretty much using the same color scheme as the original Tempest, so I am curious if it is changed some, if that would be enough to differentiate it from the original to say it is it's own game.

I am over simplifying things obviously, but you get the point. I wonder if there are any changes that could be done that would make it so they no longer have legal ground to stand on.

Haha, he should change everything slightly and release it as Vortex 5K or somehing. I bet some knockoff already used Vortex as the name though.

Oppo · Mar 18, 2015

What is "Atari" these days, anyway? A dusty logo and a room full of lawyers?

Phamit · Mar 18, 2015

googled Tempest

well took me a moment to realize that the sceenshots weren't from TxK

Hanmik · Mar 18, 2015

ATARI Sucks

go here..

http://www.plasmapong.com/

wtf.

cleveridea · Mar 18, 2015

Wait Atari is still alive?

Carl · Mar 18, 2015

Fuck yourselves Atari

Hanmik · Mar 18, 2015

cleveridea said:
Wait Atari is still alive?

this is Atari today.

http://www.atarijackpots.com/

Easy_D · Mar 18, 2015

Hanmik said:
ATARI Sucks

go here..

http://www.plasmapong.com/

wtf.

Oh shit I remember that game, it was awesome.

Foshy · Mar 18, 2015

WHY

FUCK ATARI

i love txk on vita. i love the vr demo he released. i was so pumped to play it on morpheus when that came out.

this is some fucking bullshit and i haven't been angry at business decisions in videogames in a while.

repeater · Mar 18, 2015

Visualante2 said:
Does it really matter, if Jeff can't afford to engage in a costly legal battle over a game? (which probably has quite limited reach)

Yeah, I guess the threat of an expensive and drawn out legal process is more of a problem than the likely outcome of such a process. Damn it, I wish Sony would throw its weight behind him or something.

LiK · Mar 18, 2015

That blows

moorecore · Mar 18, 2015

I was lucky enough to play the ps4 version at the Play expo in Blackpool in May of last year. It was rock solid then so I can't imagine just how much work has gone into it since. I fear we may have lost the first great Morpheus game

PrintedCrayon · Mar 18, 2015

How the hell does this work?

Is there any legal precedent for this?

Oppo · Mar 18, 2015

Sony, if you could spare some ninjas, the llama man needs an assist, thanks.

(Honestly they should help him out. I bet Sony's legal is a bit better than whatever "Atari" has these days.)

onQ123 · Mar 18, 2015

Zia said:
Absolutely fucking disgusting.

What's disgusting about it? it's clearly a clone of their game they should have some say in the release of it. Hofully they can work something out.

Stilton Disco · Mar 18, 2015

That's fucking ridiculous.

Sendou · Mar 18, 2015

PrintedCrayon said:
How the hell does this work?

Is there any legal precedent for this?

He's just venting. I didn't see him mention the actual basis given. Somehow it was substantial enough for him to back down though.

NervousXtian · Mar 18, 2015

Well, Jeff basically remade Tempest 2000.. so if he didn't really have permission.. he didn't really change up the look enough to call it just a clone. Sucks, but I mean.. did he think they wouldn't care?

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