Sarge034 said:
Looks alike to me. Be interested to know if any snippets of code he made for Atari ended up in this game.
If he wrote both, chances are lines from both will be similar or the same even if he started the second from scratch.
Unless he took stuff home or lifted code entirely from the old product (like say, Silicon Knights did with Unreal Engine 3) trying to claim ownership of his code because it's like code he wrote in the past is like trying to claim every painting an artist ever creates because they use the same brush strokes as one they made for you a decade ago.
In logical terms it's bollocks, but since copyright law frequently ignores logic I hope the internet sways Atari's opinion, like it did with King during the whole Banner Saga episode.