Atari Tries To Supress Bad Reviews, Claims Piracy

im_thatoneguy sends in an account up at Shacknews about Atari's actions to get early reviews of its upcoming game Alone In the Dark pulled from Web sites in Europe. Atari sued the German site 4Players, alleging piracy, and also cancelled an advertising deal on the site, after a pre-release review gave the game only 68%. 4Players posted a commentary (translation) alleging that Atari is doing this bcause the review is unfavorable. Shacknews reports that Atari has also demanded that both Gamer.no and GameReactor remove early reviews — both reviews gave the game a score of 3/10. Kotaku editorializes: "[Does Atari] fear that, because these outlets may have received copies of the game 'early' (i.e. from pirated copies), that they're somehow reviewing incomplete code, which could affect their opinion of the game? Maybe. Pessimists could, however, be forgiven for thinking it's a convenient excuse for Atari to attack negative reviews of the only game they're releasing in 2008 that has any chance of making them some money."

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Did Atari steal the game - probably

[gabrieltss]

Alone in the Dark was out LONG before Atari started making trouble...
What is this game about - the same thing as the original previous version and it's offshoots? It sounds and from screen shots it looks like a rip off of the originals....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alone_in_the_Dark_(video_game)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alone_in_the_Dark:_The_New_Nightmare

Shut the fuck up Atari - go steal another game! I OWN Alone in the Dark and Alone in the Dark the New Nightmare. I sure as hell won't buy your RIP OFF!