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Fever_Discordia: Kalypso:
Airline Tycoon series (Viva / Kalypso)
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Grargar: You should remove the series from your list, as the first one was released on GOG on 24 March, published by Black Forest Games (a company comprised of members from the original developers of the game, Spellbound Entertainment), instead of Viva Media. Don't forget to edit your timeline to reflect the game's addition here.

Also, another game that isn't in your Focus Home Interactive section, is Styx: Master of Shadows.
Done, and done thanks, especially for searching up the release date - above and beyond there!
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Fever_Discordia: Cities in Motion series (Paradox)
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Grargar: This should be removed, as the first game was released on 23 July (you even indicate as such in your timeline).
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Fever_Discordia: Supreme Ruler series (Paradox)
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Grargar: The first game was released on 23 October 2014, published not by Paradox, but by its developers, Battlegoat Studios. You may want to edit your timeline as well.

Edit: On second thought, Supreme Ruler was released here before Paradox came, so there is no edit the timeline.
Quietly removed both - thanks again
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Fever_Discordia: Dungeons (Kalypso)
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Grargar: This can be removed.
OK, I sneakily updated it to say 'Dungeons series' before moving it to the timeline!
Shh - don't tell anyone though! :-D
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Fever_Discordia: Shadow Watch (Red Storm - Ubisoft)
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Grargar: It's here now.
Cool beans, doesn't actually have 'Tom Clancy's' in the title so I can't add it to that other list now...
Post edited September 10, 2015 by Fever_Discordia
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JKHSawyer: So, can anyone confirm who owns the classic Raven Software games? Not Heretic and Hexen because that's already clear.

ShadowCaster (EA?)
CyClones (Ubisoft?)
Necrodome (Ubisoft?)
Take No Prisoners (Ubisoft?)
MageSlayer (Atari?)

Also, seeing GOG really kick ass lately, I honestly wonder how hard it would be to get Soldier of Fortune now.
Yeah, I agree with most of them and have added them where you've suggested (including the Atari one!) except CyClones which I had under Ubi already and with Take no Prisoners... Well it was originally published by Red Orb which was part of Broderbund and Broderbund seems to be part of the Viva Media group these days:
http://www.broderbund.com/
So I put it under Viva...
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Fever_Discordia: OK, I sneakily updated it to say 'Dungeons series' before moving it to the timeline!
Shh - don't tell anyone though! :-D
I won't, assuming you remove it from the list (hint: it's still there).
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Fever_Discordia: Cool beans, doesn't actually have 'Tom Clancy's' in the title so I can't add it to that other list now...
Same as above.
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Fever_Discordia: Yeah, I agree with most of them and have added them where you've suggested (including the Atari one!) except CyClones which I had under Ubi already and with Take no Prisoners... Well it was originally published by Red Orb which was part of Broderbund and Broderbund seems to be part of the Viva Media group these days:
http://www.broderbund.com/
So I put it under Viva...
I don't think that Viva has anything to do with Red Orb Entertaiment's games. In fact, it seems to be Ubisoft.
Post edited September 10, 2015 by Grargar
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Fever_Discordia: OK, I sneakily updated it to say 'Dungeons series' before moving it to the timeline!
Shh - don't tell anyone though! :-D
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Grargar: I won't, assuming you remove it from the list (hint: it's still there).
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Fever_Discordia: Cool beans, doesn't actually have 'Tom Clancy's' in the title so I can't add it to that other list now...
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Grargar: Same as above.
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Fever_Discordia: Yeah, I agree with most of them and have added them where you've suggested (including the Atari one!) except CyClones which I had under Ubi already and with Take no Prisoners... Well it was originally published by Red Orb which was part of Broderbund and Broderbund seems to be part of the Viva Media group these days:
http://www.broderbund.com/
So I put it under Viva...
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Grargar: I don't think that Viva has anything to do with Red Orb Entertaiment's games. In fact, it seems to be Ubisoft.
Ok just looked on wikipedia
"Gores sold The Learning Company's entertainment holdings to Ubisoft, and most of the other holdings, including the Brøderbund name, to Irish company Riverdeep. Many of Brøderbund's games, such as the Myst series, are published by Ubisoft."
So yeah, looks like Ubi got the fun stuff and Riverdeep got the boring stuff and the Broderbund name so I've moved it to Ubi but left a not that it COULD be Viva because who knows exactly how the pie was cut?

Also I wanted to say about the Ubi / SSI situation - is it REALLY a co-incidence that Ubi are bring their stuff here again for the first time in AGES at the same time that GOG are self-publishing old SSI titles? Seems like GOG and Ubi started doing business again for SOME reason...

Also deleted those 2 that slipped though once more - thanks for picking that up!
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Fever_Discordia: Also I wanted to say about the Ubi / SSI situation - is it REALLY a co-incidence that Ubi are bring their stuff here again for the first time in AGES at the same time that GOG are self-publishing old SSI titles? Seems like GOG and Ubi started doing business again for SOME reason...
I can't say for sure. All I know is that, according to this PC Gamer article, Ubisoft didn't have the rights to the Forgotten Realms games and GOG bought them from the Learning Company. I imagine that a similar case might have occurred with the other GOG-published games (which explains why it's GOG that publishes them and not Ubisoft).
Post edited September 11, 2015 by Grargar
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Fever_Discordia: Also I wanted to say about the Ubi / SSI situation - is it REALLY a co-incidence that Ubi are bring their stuff here again for the first time in AGES at the same time that GOG are self-publishing old SSI titles? Seems like GOG and Ubi started doing business again for SOME reason...
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Grargar: I can't say for sure. All I know is that, according to this PC Gamer article, Ubisoft didn't have the rights to the Forgotten Realms games and GOG bought them from the Learning Company. I imagine that a similar case might have occurred with the other GOG-published games (which explains why it's GOG that publishes them and not Ubisoft).
Or this 'Gores Group' who were selling the stuff off, sounds like Ubi weren't interested in buying that older stuff at the time, I guess it's like how Tommo didn't get ALL of Atari's sundries but unlike the undead Atari, Gores aren't in the business of publishing games so good that GOG stepped in!
Let's hope they really found more that 13 D&D games in Gore's vaults though - here's waiting for Dragonlance and Buck Rogers at least!

*edit* it's super weird that, apparently Ubi didn't get the rights to the old Pool of Radiance game but they DID have that slightly abortive attempt at rebooting the series though...
Post edited September 11, 2015 by Fever_Discordia
So, I know this probably isn't the thread for this but I can't find the proper thread for it so... I think I found some more.

Chasm: The Rift (Published by GTI and WizardWorks, which was eaten up by GTI anyways, so owned by Atari?)

Last Rites (Published by Ocean Software, bought by Infogrames, so owned by Atari?)

Blood & Magic (AD&D license)

Black Dahlia (Take-Two or Interplay?)

Forsaken (Published by Acclaim, no idea, didn't Night Dive score a bunch of Acclaim's games?)

Metal Fatigue (Published by TalonSoft, who seems to have been bought by Take-Two?)

Also, Night Dive/Retroism has not brought Eradicator nor NAM here, among some others.
Post edited September 11, 2015 by JKHSawyer
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JKHSawyer: Chasm: The Rift (Published by GTI and WizardWorks, which was eaten up by GTI anyways, so owned by Atari?)
Possibly the developers of the Carnivores series own the rights to Chasm.

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JKHSawyer: Blood & Magic (AD&D license)
It'd be interesting to see whether Interplay would be willing to sell their older D&D games to Hasbro, like they did with their Infinity Engine ones.

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JKHSawyer: Black Dahlia (Take-Two or Interplay?)
Interplay published the game on some territories, while Take-Two published it on others. I would be willing to bet that the game does belong to Take-Two.

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JKHSawyer: Forsaken (Published by Acclaim, no idea, didn't Night Dive score a bunch of Acclaim's games?)
Night Dive acquired the Turok games and might have been responsible for bringing Shadow Man back (though the game isn't published by Night Dive here). For the rest, Throwback Entertainment has apparently acquired 150 games from Acclaim's catalog.

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JKHSawyer: Metal Fatigue (Published by TalonSoft, who seems to have been bought by Take-Two?)
It was also published by Psygnosis on Europe, so it might belong to Sony. Or, it could even belong to the developers who were bought by MumboJumbo.
I think you can add Nightmare Creatures to Activision.
You can also add Dead Mountaineer's Hotel under the Akella Section :)
Also Auryn Quest, a very interesting german game also published by Akella :)
Post edited September 11, 2015 by vicklemos
Spiderweb Software is missing:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/blades-of-exile
http://www.mobygames.com/game/exile-iii-ruined-world
http://www.mobygames.com/game/exile-escape-from-the-pit
http://www.mobygames.com/game/exile-ii-crystal-souls
They got remade (twice!) as the Avernum series and damien counts them as part of that series:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/completionists_list_of_missing_games_from_gog_series
Thanks though!
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JKHSawyer: I think you can add Nightmare Creatures to Activision.
Hmm. it has a sequel that never made it to PC - PSX and DC only but was published by Konami so I guess I'd assumed that the rights to the IP of the series went to them at that point
http://www.mobygames.com/game/nightmare-creatures-ii
I mean, who knows? But I think that's probably why I decided not to include it, if I noticed it at the time...

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Fever_Discordia: Also I wanted to say about the Ubi / SSI situation - is it REALLY a co-incidence that Ubi are bring their stuff here again for the first time in AGES at the same time that GOG are self-publishing old SSI titles? Seems like GOG and Ubi started doing business again for SOME reason...
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Grargar: I can't say for sure. All I know is that, according to this PC Gamer article, Ubisoft didn't have the rights to the Forgotten Realms games and GOG bought them from the Learning Company. I imagine that a similar case might have occurred with the other GOG-published games (which explains why it's GOG that publishes them and not Ubisoft).
OK all the games whose path said (SSI - Ubisoft) now reads (SSI - Ubisoft or SSI - Gores - GOG), unless I missed any...

*edit* I guess I could have gone with CDProjekt / GOG at the end but let's not get too crazy here...
Post edited September 16, 2015 by Fever_Discordia
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Fever_Discordia: Hmm. it has a sequel that never made it to PC - PSX and DC only but was published by Konami so I guess I'd assumed that the rights to the IP of the series went to them at that point
http://www.mobygames.com/game/nightmare-creatures-ii
I mean, who knows? But I think that's probably why I decided not to include it, if I noticed it at the time...
I wonder about that. For instance, even though Square-Enix owns the Legacy of Kain franchise and was able to release the first game on the PSN store, they have been completely unable, thus far, to release the PC version that was published by Activision. In the same vein, even if Konami happened to own the rights to the Nightmare Creatures franchise, I don't think they would necessarily hold the rights for the PC version, which was also published by Activision.
Post edited September 16, 2015 by Grargar