Talk:Infogrames

message: I have taken this out. It's nonsense. It would be a lot better if you improved the article in a meaningful way - perhaps you could add something about the history of the company. As it stands the article describes the company's founding, and it tells us how to pronounce its name. But there is almost nothing about what the company did after 1983. How many games did it release? Were any of them famous? How did it go from obscurity to being one of the world's largest producers of computer games? Why did it adopt the Atari name? Where did they get the money from? How is the company thought of in France? 85.210.184.79 15:07, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: More meaningful info

message: Added more info on the Atari name change, I just grabbed the sentence from the Atari wiki.
Page could do with some more info and a bit of a clean-up.--BrotherEstapol 15:01, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Atari name change

message: Does Infogrames still have that Armadillo logo?
Yes, they do. If you go to Infogrames.com, it is on top of their page. 
Firstly I see in the opening sentence that "Infogrames Entertainment SA (IESA) was an international holding company", why the was? doesn't Infogrames still exist?
:AFAICT, you're correct -- Infogrames has renamed all their subsidiaries Atari, but the corporate parent still retains the Infogrames name.  So I believe this edit was mistaken, and I'm putting it back now.  Without that was in the first sentence, the article seems to be consistent on this. -- jhf 15:36, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A few questions 

message: The founders wanted to christen the company Zboub Système.
Just for info: Zboub means dicks in Moroccan Arabic... If someone wants to make sure that the statement is correct... Zouavman Le Zouave (Talk to me! • O)))) 16:52, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zboub 

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message: IMO those are the issues:
The Infogrames web site says repeatedly that Infogrames Entertaiment SA is a holding company acting as a parent company to Atari Group. And Atari Inc is not an entity is a a Nasdaq listed company
http://corporate.infogrames.com/infogramesgb/2007/04/atari.php
http://corporate.infogrames.com/MT-3.34-en/mt-static/FCKeditor/UserFiles/File/DOCDEREF05_06GB.pdf page 9
The infogrames web site doesn't mention, Atari interactive or changes in the ownership of Atari.
The Atari article that says that Atari Interactive is now owner of Atai Group is unsourced.
I am not trying to create trouble, I am simply copying documents I find on Google, so if a better souce is found I have no problems in erasing what I've just wrote.
:Atari Group is a recently created group as mentioned, your text made it seemed like it was created in 2003.  Atari Inc. is a separate corporate entity that is majority owned by Infogrames, as also stated here.  Here's a specific source that talks about Atari Inc. and how they license their name and properties from Atari Interactive, and another, and this one.  Here's another SEC filing that lists the two separate Atari corporate entities (Atari Inc. and Atari Interactive), and this one that reports a licensing deal brokered between the two by their parent (Infogrames), as well as naming Atari Interactive's CEO at the time Frederic Chesnais.  There's this page for Neverwinter nights that lists other members of Atari Interactive, Inc., and this page that talks about the history of Atari Interactive, Inc.  And lastly, here's the initial filing in 2003 for setting up of the two separate entities and their stated relationship to each other and Infogrames. --Marty Goldberg 05:04, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Because if you notice my profile, I'm game programmer currently on contract to Atari Inc.  So I'm a bit busy to start looking stuff up like this normally. ;) --Marty Goldberg 05:35, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Atari Inc

message: I also thought about reverting the edit, but his edit is correct. Infogrames' logo is a fictional armadillo, that's a fact, I checked on Google. 
IMO including Infogrames on the category: Fictional Armadillo is silly and quite dumb, but we must never allow ourselves to judge the merit of information. 
Therefore the category: Fictional armadillo should stay, because it's not our job to judge the worth of information. 
EconomistBR 03:16, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Infogrames' logo '''is''' a fictional armadillo

message: In the "1996-2002 Growth Through Acquisition" section, sudeenly the references switch from Infogrammes to IESA. WHy? That needs to be explained.
Did the company change their name? Get bought out by someone? buy a bunch of companies and reorganize them under a shell holding company? did one of the article authors just mess up?
Alienburrito (talk) 03:06, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure what you're talking about, its explained in the very first paragraph. The full name of the company is Infogrames Entertainment SA, IESA for short (which is what they use as well).  IESA is the proper abbreviation, "Infogrames" by itself is just slang. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 03:12, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Marty Goldberg, he is absolutely correct.⇨ EconomistBR ⇦ Talk 03:49, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the nanem change from Infogrammes to IESA in the article 

message: Just a heads up, Gardner's talking about changing IESA to an Atari name now as well.  --Marty Goldberg (talk) 17:06, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Which has now happened. Sslaxx (talk) 20:18, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, as of today literally.  Though we don't know what the actual full corporate name will be yet (since Atari Inc. is already the name of the US subsidiary). --Marty Goldberg (talk) 20:33, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Could well just be Atari Entertainment SA? 83.104.34.212 (talk) 12:21, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  It may also be that, if they sell Atari Europe, Atari Inc might become the parent company? Sslaxx (talk) 13:12, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That's just it though.  We won't know until some kind of official name is formally released.  When that happens we can tackle this. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 16:08, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: http://corporate.atari.com/MT-3.34-en/mt-static/FCKeditor/UserFiles/File/052909PR_FY09_earnings_GB_FINAL.pdf seems to indicate that the corporate name might simply be 'Atari' - though under the "CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT TEAM" section there is a reference to Atari Comex. Sslaxx (talk) 11:19, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: http://corporate.atari.com/MT-3.34-en/mt-static/FCKeditor/UserFiles/File/D2-072409PR_FY09_1Q_revenues_GB_FINAL.pdf - this suggests Atari S.A.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sslaxx (talk • contribs) 09:53, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  IESA Name Change To Occur 

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message: This link has website links of Atari's offices around the world, some of those are now redirecting to Namco Bandai. Does that mean that those offices were sold off? EconomistBR 21:25, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A majority of them were sold to Namco Bandai, yes.  Though not all of them around the world of course, Atari Inc., and various others are still part of Infogrames/Atari. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 22:05, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, so some of the "Ataris" in the Current sub-section no longer exist. I don't know where we will find the information needed to update that sub-section. EconomistBR 03:11, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: We'd have to dig up a press release of some sort regarding that Namco Bandai deal that would explicitly state which ones were part of the deal.  It has to be out there. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 03:24, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Atari's offices around the world closed? 

message: With Namco Bandai having brought Atari Europe as well as Distribution Partners, does this include Eden Games?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sslaxx (talk • contribs) 16:34, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: According to this press release from August 10th it doesn't look like it.  It's still listed as part of the "Atari Group". It also still confirms the Atari name and properties are still being held under Atari Interactive (there was previous talk about merging it with the Atar Inc. now that Atari Inc. is fully owned).  --Marty Goldberg (talk) 16:57, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Marty Goldberg's finding settle this issue. EconomistBR 23:56, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eden Games - was it included with the Atari Europe deal? 

message: Nothing's been done since August regarding what to do with this page. http://corporate.atari.com/MT-3.34-en/mt-static/FCKeditor/UserFiles/File/Anthony_Jacobson_and_Pierre_Hintze_Hire_Release_FINAL_100709_GB.pdf this document among others refer to Atari SA; by now it's clear that this is the new name for Infogrames. So: do we rename this page or create an entirely new entry for Atari SA? Sslaxx (talk) 12:33, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: As stated above, we change this article to defunct company status and create a new entry for "Atari, SA".  I'm just noticing as well, the current article page is misstitled.  It should be "Infogrames Entertainment, SA", instead of just the "Infogrames".  A move of this page to Infogrames Entertainment SA should probably be done as well. If you guys want, I'll go ahead and do all that. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 16:58, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok did the move to the proper title, changed this article to defunct company status, and created teh Atari, SA article.  Feel free to flesh it out more guys, but keep in mind not to repeat to much Infogrames history as that's what this article still exists for. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 17:19, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Atari SA: Rename this page or create a new entry? 

message: Is it supposed to say "keys drivers"? 134.241.100.250 (talk) 13:34, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transition from Infogrames Entertainment quote 

message: I have lost the game chart depicting advances. Can it be replaced ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.228.27.46 (talk) 23:20, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
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