stormregion posts

Atari has been picking up a number of games lately that have been tossed aside by other publishers. Earlier this fall they announced they would be publishing former Vivendi Games titles Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena and Ghostbusters. This morning they announced that they would be taking on another previously lost game, Codename Panzers: Cold War.

This latest game in the long running PC RTS series was to be developed by Stormregion and published by German-based 10tacle in 2008. However 10tacle went into bankrupcy this summer and Stormregion shut down with them. A new dev team named InnoGlow rose from the Stormregion ashes to complete the game and Atari will now ship it to stores in February 2009.

Unlike the previous Codename Panzers titles which were set in World War WII, Cold War takes place in the 1950s as the game projects an alternate history conflict between the Soviet Union and NATO forces in Europe

It looks like a major European game publisher is about to shut down for good and it may take a long awaited military RTS game with it. A German language press release on the 10Tacle Studios web site has announced that the company has declared itself insolvent following recent financial problems.

The publisher had several games in development prior to this announcement and one of the, the historical RTS game Codename Panzers: Cold War, may be a casuality. The game is the latest in the successful Codename Panzers series of titles by developer Stormregion that were published in the US by CDV. 10Tacle purchased Stormregion in 2007 but according to posts on the official Stormregion message boards by an alledged team member, Codename Panzers Cold War went gold in May but " . . .chances are you will never see it published. 10tacle left our studio dead in the water - our office is now closed and we're out of business, plain and simple." Reportedly Stormregion had over 100 employees at the time of its shutdown.