Test drive unlimited 2

The studio I am working in, EdenGames, is about to release the next edition of the well-known game test drive.

It is a car's game with a lot of "social and on-line" stuff. So, if you want me to keep my job, buy this game.

You can see some trailers of the game on its  website. Click here 

If interested, you can also check more details on Nour's interview. Here is that interview:

Atari is ramping up

Yeah, this is happening...

Atari, the company I have joined this year, was death at the end of the last century and it was converted in a company publishing games from other game developers.

In 2003, it has been started to be acquired by Infogrammes Inc., a French corporate and in 2008, Atari was fully acquired and then EdenGames (about 150 people) became an internal developer of Atari. Actually, the only one.

Then, things are happening very rapidly, at the end of the summer, Atari created a second studio in London bringing Paulina Bozek (the pretty girl producer previously head of SingStar) to Atari (Read article here). Now, Atari fully acquire massively multiplayer online (MMO) game developer Cryptic Studios. Read the article here. So, another 150 people are now employees of Atari. Cryptic Studios has been awarded in all this online stuff.

This are going fast ! 3 studios in less than a semester !!

Eden Games in the heart of Atari

As you probably know, Eden Games is the only internal studio of Atari.

Well, last November 7th, Eden Games has moved and now it is located in the heart of Atari in Lyon, France. It is just besides Electronics Arts.

So now, we are in the middle of a beautiful complex where the buildings seem to be boats parked in a port (just look at the picture).


Offices are now open-space style which I think is a good thing since it is easier to share ideas... however, we have lost the intimity of the 3person offices... But that is not all that we have lost, now I have to walk for 1 hour to get there and we don't have free drinks in the building anymore :(