Atari Acquires IP Rights to Five Ubisoft Games, Plans to Evolve and Re-Release Them

Atari acquired the IP rights to five Ubisoft games, aiming to rerelease them, expanded with new content, according to a press release published by BusinessWire on Aug. 26, 2025.

The acquired titles are 2005’s Cold Fear, 2011’s Child of Eden, 2012’s I Am Alive, 2015’s Grow Home and 2016’s Grow Up.

In addition to adding new content, Atari will rerelease these games under its label, update them with new formats and presumably make them available on more platforms.

The total value of Atari’s acquisition of Ubisoft’s IPs has not been publicly disclosed.

Developed by Darkworks, survival horror third-person shooter Cold Fear centers on Tom Hansen, a member of the United States Coast Guard, who comes to the aid of a Russian whaler in the Bering Strait and discovers that a mysterious parasite has turned the crew into zombie-like creatures.

Developed by Q Entertainment, the musical rail shooter Child of Eden is set in the year 2219, hundreds of years after humanity has spread beyond Earth, where the internet exists as a virtual realm holding all human knowledge called Eden. The game’s story unfolds during the execution of a project dedicated to the resurrection of the personality of Lumi, the first person born in space, using her preserved memories split into the Archives. Viruses unexpectedly infect Eden and endanger Lumi’s existence, with the player tasked with cleansing Eden’s Archives and saving both it and Lumi.

Developed by Ubisoft Shanghai and set one year after a cataclysmic disaster called The Event wiped out most of humanity and reduced cities to rubble, the action-adventure survival game I Am Alive follows the unnamed protagonist as he returns home to the fictional city of Haventon, looking for his wife and daughter, when he meets a young girl searching for her lost mother and vows to help find her.

Developed by Ubisoft Reflections, the adventure platformer Grow Home follows a robot named B.U.D., who is tasked with growing a plant that will oxygenate its home planet.

Developed by Ubisoft Reflections, the adventure platformer Grow Up is the sequel to Grow Home, which tasks players, controlling B.U.D. once again, with collecting parts of the robot’s parental spaceship, MOM, after a space crash.