 After working on two different licensed games , the team intended to develop its own games . A game named Kano , involving mind @-@ reading , was started but was never completed . After the release of The Darkness , the company signed a two @-@ project contract with Vivendi . One of the games was a new property known as Polaris . The game was set in a post @-@ apocalyptic environment . Players were tasked to overcome snowstorms , and defeat terrorists and monsters cooperatively with other players . Vivendi was not convinced the game would succeed and adjusted the contract to a remake of Escape from Butcher Bay , The Chronicles of Riddick : Assault on Dark Athena . Vivendi originally named the game Riddick 2 but Starbreeze disagreed claiming the name would raise expectations among gamers that the remake might not be able to deliver . Vivendi 's subsidiary Sierra Entertainment was set to publish the game . After the merger between Activision and Vivendi , the new company began streamlining Vivendi and put the game , along with Brütal Legend , and Ghostbusters : The Video Game up for sale . Atari eventually acquired the publishing rights and the game was released in 2009 . 
