*Crosses fingers, and toes and eyes* ;-D

I got an email back from Fred Chesnais and he has put me in touch with someone at Atari to answer my questions. I've sent her a more detailed email outlining what it is we do. I also mentioned Bob Bates and his interest in buying back the rights to his titles, hope that doesn't spook her as a too-soon comment.

Will let you know what comes back, but at least Atari answered the first round of emails, even if it was to shuttle me to someone else. That's better than I've gotten at some places.

Nothing from my Atari contact yet, I emailed her again to see if she would be able to provide something. Since my previous email went to her right before a holiday weekend, it's very possible it just got lost in the chatter.

Alright, so after a bit of research in the small spare time I have, I have a few leads on who might own the rights to The Lost Dungeon of Souls. Considering Sierra was the publisher, and Activision now owns them, the rights are either at Activision, or at one of the Troika games co-founders. The latter seems more plausible since after a few reading I have found out those guys get emotionally attached to their projects and considered Fallout to be their own. So right now my next step is to contact one of, or more, Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky, and Jason Anderson.

I've got a question. Who owns the rights to the original Kings Bounty from 1990?

http://www.mobygames.com/game/kings-bounty

Is it the developers/publishers of the newer games?

From what I know the rights to the original King's Bounty game still lie with Ubisoft while the name/franchise was sold to 1C Company.
It might be worth it to ask 1C about it though, just to be sure.

Emotional attachment doesn't secure you any rights. "Considering" Fallout their own didn't keep Interplay from owning the rights and later selling it to Zenimax.

That was before they dabbled with Arcanum, which I reckon taught them a lesson about owning rights.

I have a contact within Eidios and by extension Square Enix, are there any games that they have the rights to that GOG.com is looking to get?

I'm sure GOG wants to get Square's PC releases like the Final Fantasy games, the rest of the Hitman games, the other Tomb Raider games and the missing expansions, and newer Eidos stuff like Deus Ex: HR. I think Eidos is also at least partially linked to some games with complex rights issues like Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, System Shock, Freedom Fighters, and Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri. How practical any of those are is a whole other matter. :)

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Okay, I'll try to get hold of the details of the people in control licensing and distribution.

Dungeon Siege, Hitman Blood Money, etc. :)

Here's the list of missing Square stuff that I've managed to put together:

Square Enix:
25 to Life (Eidos - Square Enix)
Abomination (Eidos - Square Enix)
Battlestations series (Eidos - Square Enix)
Big Red Racing (Domark - Eidos - Square Enix)
Delphine Cinematique series (Delphine - U.S. Gold - Eidos - Square Enix (EU) or Interplay (US))
Dominus (US Gold - Eidos - Square Enix)
Dungeon Siege series (Microsoft - Take 2 - Square Enix)
Final Fantasy Series (Square Enix)
FlashBack (Delphine - US Gold - Eidos - Square Enix)
Flora's Fruit Farm (Eidos - Square Enix)
Front Mission Evolved (Eidos - Sqare Enix)
Gyromancer (Pop Cap - Eidos - Square Enix)
Horde, The (Crystal Dynamics - Eidos - Square Enix)
Just Cause series (Square Enix)
Kane and Lynch series (Eidos - Square Enix)
Last Remnant, The (Square Enix)
Legends of Valour (US Gold - Eidos - Square Enix)
Mensa Academy (Eidos - Square Enix)
Mini Ninjas (Eidos - Square Enix)
Order of War (Wargaming.net - Square Enix)
Orion Burger (Eidos - Square Enix)
Orion Conspiracy, The (Domark - Eidos - Square Enix)
Project: Snowblind (Eidos - Square Enix)
Quantum Conundrum (Square Enix)
Revenant (Eidos - Square Enix)
Scary Girl (Eidos - Sqare Enix)
SEASON OF MYSTERY: The Cherry Blossom Murders (Eidos - Square Enix)
Shadowlands series (Domark - Eidos - Square Enix)
Shellshock 2 (Rebellion - Eidos - Square Enix)
Sleeping Dogs (Square Enix)
Volfied (Taito - Square Enix)
Yosumin! (Eidos - Square Enix)


Not sure what's actually GOOD and a bit older in there though, I wouldn't mind seeing Abomination again, even though it isn't stellar...

is it possible that Megaman X1, X3, X4, X5 and X8 can get on GOG? (X6 and X7 did get pc ports but not in europe and U.S.) (X2 did not get a pc port at all as far as i know)

sorry i am a newbie with this sort of thing please ignore this post can a mod remove this post please