Atari Delays Two Games
Atari today pushed back the release dates for two anticipated games, one of which will now miss the lucrative holiday shopping season.
The first game, the massively multiplayer online game Horizons: Empire of Istaria, was bumped back to December 9 from its original release window in November. With the extra few weeks of development, the team will optimize code, polish the tradeskill system, refine combat, engage new modules of monster AI, expand the quest system and ensure the game’s online stability.
The other game to be delayed was Unreal Tournament 2004, which was scheduled to ship for the holidays. The shooter will now hit retail stores in February 2004. No specifics were available as to the reason for the game’s delay.
