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Good Old Games has announced two new publisher deals today, bringing both Atari and Anuman Interactive in to their DRM free fold.

Anuman seems to be the first up, with their title Syberia being released today, and Syberia 2 and Amerzone : the Explorer Legacy both listed as Coming Soon.

Atari will presumably be appearing next. Master of Orion, Master of Magic and Outcast were three games specifically mentioned as on their way. Good Old Games & CD Projekt Co-founder Marcin Iwinski also had the following to say during the company’s Spring Conference (site of the announcement) :

“This deal is really just the first step in what we expect will be a long and fruitful relationship. Atari has a tremendous number of cult classics within their grasp, and we hope to sign these in a near future!“.

Atari currently has the exclusive rights to the D&D license in games, so this might help titles in that universe from them and other publishers GOG has on board appear. They also own the rights to the old MicroProse catalogue (Master of Orion & Master of Magic are both MicroProse releases). Those of you who knows that name are now drooling. For those of you who don’t recognize that name immediately (damn punk kids…), here’s a link to everything they ever developed. Some of these individual games have come under the stewardship of a different publisher than Atari, but this gives a rough idea of the potential awesome.