More Dragon Ball From Atari

More Dragon Ball games from the Atari studios. Maybe not immediately, but Atari sure is planning to use the renewed license.

Atari announced today that it will continue its long-standing successful relationship with FUNimation Productions through a new five-year exclusive license for the Dragon Ball franchise covering the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Under the new agreement, Atari, which has exclusively held a Dragon Ball license in those territories since 1999, will have the rights to develop interactive video games based on the Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT series and characters for all current and future gaming consoles and portable gaming devices, such as the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP.

"Since launching our first product together in 2002, Atari has worked closely with FUNimation to extend the Dragon Ball brand into the interactive market and with more than 7 million units sold to date, it's clear that the momentum of the Dragon Ball phenomenon shows no signs of abating," said Jim Caparro, President and Chief Executive Officer of Atari. "We have exciting plans in place to build on that momentum and usher in the next era of Dragon Ball, including products for the new wave of portable gaming devices and next-gen consoles."

"Atari connects with a brand and its fans, and as a result we have created the great video games in the Dragon Ball franchise," says Gen Fukunaga, President of FUNimation. "The Dragon Ball brand is on a roll and we look forward to even more success with Atari and the continued growth of the Dragon Ball franchise."

Since Atari's first Dragon Ball product (Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku for the GBA) released in May 2002, Atari has released 12 Dragon Ball video games, selling more than 7 million units to date. Atari recently announced plans to release four new Dragon Ball titles in 2005, including Dragon Ball GT: Transformation, the first all-DBGT action/adventure title for the GBA set for a release in the Summer of 2005.

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  man i hope that DBGTtransformation is nothing like the legacy of goku series..:(

  cubeenigma, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  I personally think they should stop all these games and work on one really revolutionary dbz game.

  terrace, 30-11--0001 at 00:00