Lengthy-running video games agency Atari has purchased the publishing rights to 2004’s Rollercoaster Tycoon 3.
The agency has paid the prevailing proprietor of those rights, Frontier Developments, $7 million for these. Of that determine, $4 million is upfront money whereas the remaining $3 million is deferred cost.
Frontier initially developed Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 with Atari because the writer. The publishing rights returned to the studio in 2018 and has made round $1.5 million a yr in revenue.
“As we rejoice the twenty fifth anniversary of Rollercoaster Tycoon with Chris Sawyer, I’m actually happy that we will unite this essential and profitable title within the collection with the remainder of the franchise,” Atari chair and CEO Wade Rosen mentioned.
”That is going to create new alternatives for Atari as we proceed the good work executed by Frontier, and produce advantages to the followers of video games throughout the Rollercoaster Tycoon franchise.”
This information comes within the midst of a relatively turbulent time for Frontier Growth’s monetary state of affairs.