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Shiny Entertainment Purchased, Absorbed
LifesBlood writes to mention the news that Foundation 9, one of the largest independent game development firms, has acquired the non-game assets of Shiny Entertainment. You may recall Shiny as the makers of titles like Earthworm Jim, Enter the Matrix, and (though I'm the only one who ever played it) the unusual strategy title Sacrifice. From the article: "Shiny was originally purchased by Atari in 2002 for an estimated $47 million, but financial terms of the sale to F9E were not disclosed. F9E did reveal that the acquisition was funded by Foundation 9's recent investment from Francisco Partners, which gave F9E a capital infusion of $150 million over the next few years. Under the terms of the transaction, F9E will acquire all the non-game assets from Shiny, while Atari will retain its current project planning formerly developed by Shiny, including Earthworm Jim."
Sacrifice was released in 2000, so I don't think preventing installation on a x64 system was high on their list of priorities, seeing as there was no such thing. The blame lies in WinXP64, it has caused nothing but trouble for me which is the reason I reinstalled the 32-bit version as soon as I could. Wait until Vista (or switch to Linux) if you want a real 64-bit OS.