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How Atari Plans to Bring Itself Back From the Dead
Fred Chesnais wants to make Atari cool again. His first step: transforming it from a gaming company into an entertainment production studio. Originally written and published by Issie Lapowsky at WIRED » Game|Life. Click here to...
Atari's Pong, and the Game Industry, Turn 40
On November 29, 1972, Atari announced the release of its coin-operated machine, Pong. It wasn’t entirely original: Another coin-op game, Computer Space, pre-dated Pong, but proved unpopular; and the first home console, th...
First Black Ops 2 Double XP Weekend Now Live, Nuketown 2025 Atari Easter Egg
MP1st – Treyarch has just activated the very first double XP weekend event for Black Ops 2 on all playlists on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. Just a reminder, you need to have Nuketown 2025 downloaded in order to gain double XP d...
The Atari 2600 E.T. Video Game Is Still Terrible, Even When It's Finished in Less than 30 Seconds
You know the story. Almost everyone who wielded a joystick in the 1980s does: the tie-in game for Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was so unplayably bad that it almost single-handedly sank the first wave of v...
Meet the Skaris, a Retro Console so Terrible I Wish it was Real [Retro]
You and your retro console street cred. It means nothing, because all your consoles run on electricity, which is so damn modern your Atari 2600 may as well be an Xbox 360. No, you want to impress posers and collectors with your...
The Atari 2600 Joystick In Its Purest Form [Design]
“Pure” can have a lot of interpretations. For artist Andrew Miller and his “Brand Spirit” series of photographed objects, it means removing all traces of brand and color. And the results are quite pretty...
This Week in the Business: 'Sony Will Drop Its Hardware Prices This Autumn, Because It Must.' [GamesIndustry International]
What’s happened in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “Sony will drop its hardware prices this autumn, because it must.”—Rob Fahey, veteran game journalist, talking about why Sony...
Atari Founder's Favourite Game Was Kicking Competitor's Asses [Pullquote]
Nolan Bushnell, the co-founder of Atari and…other things, chats with Eurogamer’s Simon Parkin. (Top photo by Johannes Simon | Getty) Originally written and published by Luke Plunkett at Kotaku. Click here to read th...
The Jace Hall Show – Atari Gives Jace A Pimp Ride
Jace gets a ride worthy of MTV, Felicia Day is up to something sneaky, Jace auditions for Diablo III, and Jace’s modern rendition of Pacman Fever. Originally written and published by at IGN PS3. Click here to read the ori...
