Infogrames Goes Stop-Loss, Doesn't Mind Uwe Boll
Times are hard. The Fed's cutting interest rates, an evil villain called the Subprime Mortgage Meltdown (mouthful!) is wrecking havoc somewhere, and I recently had to let my afternoon stylist go (he cried). Times are so hard, in fact, that CEOs have begun speaking plainly, clearly a sign of the End Days; says Infogrames' brand new CEO David Gardner:
"We want to stop losing money... This management team's number one goal is to get a business plan together that gets us to a break-even level."
That's plain enough. Also plain is that Infogrames has decided that profits from the remake of Alone in the Dark, which releases June 24 in North America, will be their saving grace. And according to Gardner, even Uwe Boll's giant steaming dump of a film hasn't taken the edge off the series, which Gardner predicts will sell 2 to 3 million copies this fiscal year.
Does that, in some kind of complicated karmically unstable way, mean that Uwe Boll may help turn around Infogrames' finances? Or at least not tank the company simply by association? I think I'll wait around until BloodRayne 3 before I make any assumptions...
Infogrames: 'We want to stop losing money' [Gamespot]
tiny dancer
Posted to Miscellany on 11 April 2008
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