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With few exceptions, early video games weren't known for delving into the horror genre.

That would change in 1991, when developer Infogrames acquired the rights to the Call of Cthulhu RPG.

To adapt the concept digitally, they assigned Frederic Reynaud, a programmer who was passionate about the idea of creating a game that could instill genuine fright in its players.

The game would be set in a haunted, monster-infested mansion in 1920s Louisiana.

Reynaud was inspired by Lovecraft, of course, but he also cites filmmakers Dario Argento and George Romero as strong influences on his design.

In fact, Chaosium ended up dropping out of the project completely, after not feeling that it lived up to what they envisioned for a Call of Cthulhu game.

And so Infogrames released it with an entirely new title, appropriate for its part in birthing the entirely new genre of survival horror.

For today's episode, turn off your lights and kick all your friends out of the room, because we're playing Alone in the

Hey fellow Atarians, welcome to Atari Newsline.

Ballistik Coffee Boy here.

So this episode we have about four stories or so.

So first of all, we're going to talk about this.

So Atari releases Planet of Lana 2, Children of the Leaf Edition.

This is the Kindred Spirits Edition, I believe.

We're going to take a look at the trailer and talk about this game, which is releasing in a physical form on PS5.

Also, the creator of Crossy Road is now leading Atari's mobile game division.

while not perfect, are much closer to the source material in story and tone, and like all of the series, the four episodes adapting the two albums are very enjoyable watches.

The two albums were adapted into video game format in 1997, with Infogrames following up their release of the Tintin in Tibet video game of the year prior with another side-scrolling platformer for Super Nintendo, PC and Game Boy.

The story is more suitable than Tibet for a video game adaptation and provides a variety of different challenges and settings derived directly from the story.

The final puzzle requires the player to assemble on screen the torn newspaper that reveals the date of the impending eclipse, while the final platforming segment has Tintin dodging obstacles and enemies before finally assuming his position on the execution pyre, just to have the eclipse play out in the following cutscene.

So hopefully that goes through and hopefully everybody's happy.

From VGC, Atari has announced that Crossy Road creator Matt Hall is now in charge of the company's mobile strategy.

Hall, who co-founded studio Hipster Whale in 2014, has been appointed executive vice president of Atari Mobile.

PlayStation has revealed a new set of DualSense controllers, the Prism Collection.

Barrett, can we see this? It's interesting.

And so this game started as a Godzilla project.

But after Take-Two acquired DMA from Infogrames in September of 1999, Space Station Silicon Valley and GTA 2 teams were combined, and they initially began developing GTA 3.

So as they kind of moved on...

These two teams coming together, sharing ideas of what they've learned and sharing concepts they had learned on the previous projects, coming up with GTA 3.

Welcome back to the official Atari Games Podcast.

I am your host, Jason Polansky, and I am joined by a very special guest, Andreas Beyer, Creative Director here at Atari, formerly Thunderful.

Welcome, Andreas.

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