Infogrames sells Civilization franchise

In the "Hmm..." department, Infogrames has sold it's rights to the Civilization

franchise. The video game behemoth seems to have a few financial problems at the moment and sold off the rights. See? This is what happens when you anger the ghost of Atari.

The news is early in the article. The rest is all tedious financial stuff. Well worth reading if you can't sleep. You'll be out like a light.

So, with the Civilization franchise having split in recent years, and now this, I guess we'll be seeing yet another company put out a Civilization game. If this goes on much longer, every company in the business will have put one out by the year 2020.