I haven't played it for years but back then the only way to get Tachyon: The Fringe patched up was to have it contact their update servers...

I don't know how large the market is on these games as they were (probably) never published outside Scandinavia but Pan Vision (a large Nordic game publisher, former known as Pan Interactive) owns the rights to a lot of old games from the late 90's to early 2000's, maybe it's possible to get them here on GOG if the interest in any games seems to be big? Like this one maybe

http://www.mobygames.com/company/pan-vision-ab

Old development studios that was merged into Pan Vision
http://www.mobygames.com/company/young-genius-software-ab
http://www.mobygames.com/company/vision-park-ab
http://www.mobygames.com/company/levande-bcker-i-norden-ab

Guild Wars looks like a good title to have. Although the sequel is available as a digital download apparently, from more DRM-happy sites, so I don't know if the original would get a release here from the current owners.

The Outforce might be interesting. I'll see what I can dig up on that one.

Valhalla Chronicles sounds interesting, but that's the lowest score on Mobygames I've seen for a game. I think it's the lowest actual score possible, unless folks can vote absolute zero.

Looks like The Outforce is currently owned by Starbreeze Studios. I have an impression that they're not a friend of DRM-free.

In their favour, I like how their navigation bar works at the top, with the log shrinking when you scroll in order to minimise the link sizes. GOG would do well to emulate that. The colours on mouseover are nice too.

Except Guild Wars is an MMORPG, not sure that works with GoG. That was the game made by the Blizzard employees that left when they were unhappy with the direction they saw WoW going before it was originally released. I remember doing an early weekend alpha of the game.

That's right. I knew I had heard of the game before, but couldn't place it. Thanks for the info, and you are correct, it's not a good fit for GOG in a number of ways.

Random question but how come you replied to me with those titles? :P
Did you see them on the page of Pan Vision? If that's the case, they are probably just the publishers/distributers in the Nordic countries of those games, no other connection.

Yes, that's the list I used. I realise Pan Vision has only a tangential relationship to those games, but they are the titles that caught my personal interest on a quick look.

If you don't sell something then you still own it. Not selling something to one party doesn't mean that a 3rd party will own it. Atari emerged from bankruptcy so the rights should for anything not auctioned off should be with them.

Yeah, maybe, you never know what was sold off privately outside of the auction though - look at Outcast, for instance

Sure but there is no legal rule that means the rights would end up at Magnetic Scrolls.

I cannot believe it.
My last search paid of. I got an answer from a company who I thought might have gotten the Thalion rights after Thalion's insolvency.
And I was right, they had them and they sold them on. And they told me to whom.

This means I might have found a big chunk if not all of the Thalion rights.
I'll now try to contact that party and see how it goes. Hopefully they confirm that they have the rights.

I'm stunned.

To coin a phrase, "Awesome!"

That is fantastic news Piranjade, well done! Please let us know how it goes.

Thank you!
It only took me about a year to get this far! LOL
I really, really hope that this right holder is open to listen (and talk) about the Thalion rights.
I'll keep you posted.

I think (but that's just my assumption) that de minimis assets was supposed to be everything that left after all other deals were made.

So the reason to not include some IP in deal with Tommo, apart of other deals, may only be oversight. Or, as I assumed, rights are back with devs.


Will GOG be interested in releasing those games? Those are Amiga titles, and GOG already said that Amiga DoTC was all on Cinemaware.