Atari and its current parent company Infogrames (Infogrames plans to fully purchase Atari later this year) needs a big hit and they are hoping that their revamp of the Alone in the Dark survival horror franchise will give them a big boost when it's released for the PC and other platforms this June. But will this game signal the end of an era for the publisher? In a new Gamasutra interview, the company's recently announced new president Phil Harrison hints that the answer may be, "Yes".

While Harrison was reluctant to chat about anything else other than Alone in the Dark, the interview did reveal that Harrison is looking beyond the game's release, stating he doesn't see Atari/Infogrames releasing "huge-budget, single-player games in the future." Harrison believes that the industry as a whole could be moving "from pure packaged media to an online business model and social communication and community model" and that his company is looking to lead the charge to that kind of business model. However, Atari/Infogrames still has to make Alone in the Dark a sales success. It is expecting to sell between two to three million copies for its entire fiscal year.