Atomic Games

Atomic Games, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas. The company specialized in wargames.

The company was founded by Keith Zabalaoui in 1989. It is best known for developing the Close Combat series of real-time wargames, as well as the V for Victory series.[1]

Because of cancellation of a project titled Hammer's Slammers, in December 2000, Atomic Games gor fired its entire staff, only keeping three executives.[2][3]

Destineer bought Atomic Games on May 6, 2005, while collaborating on Close Combat: Red Phoenix and Close Combat: First to Fight.[4][5]

Atomic Games was developing a third-person shooter, Six Days in Fallujah, in cooperation with Konami, until the latter decided to leave from the project in August 2009.[6][7] The company went on to finish the game, but never released it.[8]

Atomic Games released the game called Breach.[9] Destineer also owned Bold Games, and MacSoft.

With Avalon Hill

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Atomic Games was signed to Avalon Hill in 1993 by the company's Jim Rose,[10] and began developing Beyond Squad Leader and the World at War series for its new publisher. [11]

The main task for Rose, hired to lead Avalon Hill's computer game division in December 1992 was to renew this section of the business because of big revenues. The two companies' first collaboration, Operation Crusader, reused the engine of the V for Victory series. PC Gamer US wargame columnist William R. Trotter named it one of the top-five wargames of 1994.

References

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  1. ↑ RemoBloggerMarch 11, Chris; 2009 (2009-03-11). "Interview: Atomic Games' Tamte On New Projects, Return Of Close Com". Game Developer. Retrieved 2021-10-15. {{cite web}}: |last2= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ "AND ANOTHER ONES GONE, ANOTHER ONES GONE… [Author: Arcadian Del Sol]". Broken Toys. 2000-12-13. Archived from the original on 2021-10-23. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  3. ↑ "Atomic Games Shuts Down". GameSpot. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  4. ↑ "Destineer acquires Atomic Games". Macworld. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  5. ↑ "Destineer Buys Close Combat Developer Atomic Games". The Mac Observer. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  6. ↑ Alex, Leigh; erBloggerAugust 06; 2009 (2009-08-06). "Atomic Sees Layoffs As Controversial Fallujah Fails To Find Pub". Game Developer. Retrieved 2021-10-15. {{cite web}}: |last3= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ↑ "Six Days In Fallujah Causes Casualties At Atomic Games". Kotaku. 6 August 2009. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
  8. ↑ pm, Jim ReillyUpdated: 9 May 2012 8:43 amPosted: 2 Mar 2010 8:02 (2 March 2010), Six Days in Fallujah Finished, Still Coming Out - IGN, retrieved 2021-10-15{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ am, Daemon HatfieldUpdated: 29 Jun 2016 6:49 pmPosted: 26 Mar 2010 4:00 (26 March 2010), PAX East 10: Atomic Games Wants to Level the Battlefield - IGN, retrieved 2021-10-15{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ "Computer Gaming World". Wikipedia. 2021-09-19.
  11. ↑ Williams, G (1994-07-16). "When to do orchidopexy". BMJ. 309 (6948): 194. doi:10.1136/bmj.309.6948.194. ISSN 0959-8138. S2CID 71711442.