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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-07T09:56:41.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Single Player",
    "Fantasy",
    "Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Remake)",
    "First person",
    "PC",
    "Wizardry",
    "Atari",
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  "textContent": "Foundational RPG series Wizardry has, over forty years since helping to codify the roleplaying videogame, found itself torn between present-day custodians. Atari announced yesterday that they’d acquired the rights to the first five Wizardry games, as well as \"their underlying IP,\" and said they’d be re-releasing those five on modern platforms. This morning, however, Japanese publishers Drecom – who bought Wizardry’s copyright and trademark rights in 2020 – tXeeted that contrary to certain reports on Atari’s acquisition, it was they who’d continue to own and manage the intellectual property in the future.\n\nRead more",
  "title": "Who owns the Wizardry RPGs? We do, say both Drecom and Atari as an unusual IP acquisition splits custody of the genre-forming series"
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