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Acclaim Shuts Down Games After Playdom Transition

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  1. GameOgreVideos

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    Acclaim, the shuttered classic game maker reborn in 2005 as an online game company, shut down the vast majority of its online games Thursday, according to the company's website.

    All Acclaim's client-based online games switched off on August 26. The company is offering reimbursement of Acclaim's virtual currency Acclaim Coins, and specifically for players of the game 9Dragons, refunds on purchases made in the last 30 days.

    However, the company's Flash-based MMO Kogamu, which was in development prior to the company's acquisition, continues to live on on Facebook under the Playdom name, and music game RockFREE also continues.

    The shift at Acclaim comes after social gaming company Playdom acquired Acclaim in May this year. Only about two months after that buy, Disney bought Playdom in a $763 million deal, including $200 million in target-based earnouts.

    Playdom's CFO was unavailable for comment, while a PR rep for Disney Interactive Studios did not have a comment immediately available. Aside from 9Dragons, Acclaim also ran the online games Spellborn, 2Moons and Bots, among others.

    Acclaim was founded in 1987, and published some of the most popular titles in gaming, including the first and second Burnout games, Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II and NBA Jam.

    But a long string of subpar games led the publisher to be associated with low-quality product, and sales showed it. The company closed its doors in 2004.

    The following year, former Activision executive Howard Marks bought the name for a reported $100,000, and relaunched the brand as a publisher of translated Asian MMOs in the West. Industry veteran David Perry partnered with Marks and was chief creative officer for Acclaim, before he moved on to co-found the cloud-based gaming company Gaikai.
     
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    Aaddron Moderator Staff Member GameOgre Moderator

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    It's too bad Acclaim has been around for a long time and has made some good games. Hopefully most if not all Acclaims IPs can find new homes.
     
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    Krew Top 10 Reborn Again Ogre Veteran

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    *sad face* :(
    Good company
     
  4. ice grim reaper

    ice grim reaper Brute

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    Here more news about Acclaim:

    Acclaim's stable:

    BOTS!! –A multi-player online fighting game. Players choose from one of three basic BOTS (Patch, Surge, and Ram) and then upgrade their character throughout the game. There are multi-player story modes that include Sector (Player vs Virus), PVP (Player/Team vs Player/Team) and Base (Base vs Base). This game has been out since April 2006.

    BOTS and it's developers are shutting down.:bigcry:


    9Dragons– A 3D MMORPG set in China during the Ming Dynasty. It includes actual Chinese geography and historical features such as the Great Wall of China and the Shaolin Temple. 9Dragons was developed by Korean company Indy21and the lore and ingame storyline was remastered, and later game directed by bestselling author Steven-Elliot Altman.

    Still alive by another publisher.


    2Moons – A Translation of the Korean MMORPG Dekaron by Gamehi, featuring a new story line. Published by Acclaim under the direction of David Perry, 2Moons uses an in-game advertising business model. In December 2007 the game had 500,000 active players, with fewer than 10% buying items through this advertising.[2]

    Alive as Dekaron.


    Dance! Online – A game is based on the Chinese game Super Dancer Online created by Nineyou. Like 2Moons, it is published by Acclaim under the direction of David Perry. As of December 2007, the game had 300,000 active players, of which over 50% are female. Ever since 2008 it has been dumped by Acclaim and has not been updated nor cared for.[2].

    Now know as Super Dance! Online on Facebook.


    Ponystars – an online virtual pets game, launched in June 2008. It is a US-hosted version of the French game Pony Valley and is operated in partnership with that game's creator, Feerik.

    Still alive.

    My Diva Doll – A multi-player online fashion and decorating game. Partnership with French company Feerik.

    Still alive.

    Tribal Nations – A multi-player online sim set in the Native Tribes of Mesoamerica. Partnership with French company Celsius Online.

    Alive as Nativekingdoms.

    Prize Potato – A multi-player game created for Facebook that offers prizes.

    Still alive in Facebook.

    The Chronicles of Spellborn – MMORPG developed by Spellborn International, released on the 27th of November, 2008 in the Europe. Release for the USA and the UK is planned for Q1 of 2009.

    The Chronicles of Spellborn and it's developers are shutting down.:bigcry:


    Knight's Blood– A multi-player online Knight fighting game. In partnership with RedMoonStudios GmbH & Co. KG.

    Alive as Knightfight


    Muniz Online

    Still alive.


    TrackMania

    Still alive


    Prize Island

    Dead.


    Top Secret – A Scalable Multi-player Online Racing Game directed by David Perry and developed by Acclaim Games. It is an online collaboration in video game development, drawing on both established professionals and novices. The project also features a competition, where the top contributor will take the role as director for a new game.

    Dead.

    RockFree and RockRiot

    Still alive in Facebook.


    Ninja Clans

    Still alive.


    Rush Fighters

    Still alive as Splashfighters.





    And their not alive as Acclaim games,there alive as their developers company games.

    PS.Some of them are text based games,hate those types of games.
     
  5. anymotion

    anymotion DA BIG CLUB The Pit

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    That's pretty sad :( Hopefully they'll bring back some :)
     
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    Thank you for your post,i like it very much.
     
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