Atari surprised everyone last week with the out-of-nowhere acquisition of Nightdive Studios, the developer responsible for bringing back classic '90s shooters including Turok and Turok 2, Blood, Quake, and Powerslave, as well as the upcoming System Shock remake.
The news wasn't received with universal enthusiasm due to Atari's less-than-stellar contemporary reputation, which has arisen from ventures like the underwhelming Atari VCS and baffling Atari Hotels, as well as its embrace of cryptocurrency and NFTs, which went over about as well as you'd expect—which is to say, not well at all.
