Alone In The Dark Now Coming In May

Okay, we have ran two stories over the last few days telling you that Atari would be releasing Alone in the Dark in September, and then a few days later they would be releasing in March. Just as you’d expect none of these dates were right, and now the game is expected to hit in May, which is close enough between both of the other two dates to annoy us that bit more.

But Atari seem to want to annoy us further, and tell us that the this summer date is so as not to compete with other games in the hardcore market. “We are scheduling regular releases for [our] best sellers, but we will not position ourselves exclusively in this segment aimed at experienced gamers, which requires larger investments where competition from majors is increasingly fierce and where development cycles are getting longer, actually too long for us,” admitted Atariboss Patrick Leleu. “Alone in the Dark will be a major release. But the company’s survival does not hinge on the success of that game, although we do hope it sells millions of copies,” he comments.

In our opinion it does not bode well if a boss does not have faith in his own company’s game. So, I don’t know why we’re even bothering putting so much effort into this, especially if Atari seem to be getting all pissy about people like you who are reading this interested in their game!