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After years of meandering messages and bankruptcies, Atari SA appears to be turning a corner with a retro focus. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, CEO Wade Rosen reiterated the company’s commitment to retro, following the 2022 release of the magnificent Atari 50 compilation and the recent release of the emulation-based Atari 2600+ (more on that from Time Extension). Rosen says ...

Atari has announced the development and upcoming release of Asteroids: Outpost. Yes, this is being labeled as a reboot of the classic 1979 arcade space shooter by Atari, but it’s looking almost nothing like the original. Instead of updating the classic game mode, this revival will be a sandbox style, open world, survival game. Players are cast as a miner in outer space ...

Have you seen Angry Video Game Nerd – The Movie? If not, let me tell you that it’s about the notorious Atari E.T. game, considered to be the worst game in the history of video games. In the movie, Angry Video Game Nerd is pestered by his peers to review Atari E.T. so that everybody can see how bad the ...

Atari makes another run at the survival horror genre with their upcoming Alone in the Dark: Illumination: a long awaited sequel of Alone in the Dark: Inferno. Following in the footsteps of its predecessor, the latest title to come out of Pure FPS developing studios promises to offer the same traditional survival horror experience with a more polished twist. This ...

Indie developer Soloweb developed a remastered edition of the Atari classic, “Pong”. The game was developed with a low-budget and is intended as a reboot of the original. Without any connection to Apple or their products, the developer named their game “iPong”. According to Soloweb, iPong is set into the future, as every existing race is fighting for the power ...

Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, says that selling the company to Warner Communications in 1976 was a big mistake. He adds that this decision, though taken because they needed money to develop their own console (the Atari 2600), led the company to destruction. Through his reddit account, Bushnell also states that, in his opinion, Atari would still be important if ...

Atari is rebooting its famous horror games, Alone in the Dark and Haunted House. The company announced that re-imagined versions of the two classics will be released this autumn for the PC. More information and demos of these games will be revealed by Atari during PAX Prime. According to its promotional website, the first game, “Alone in the Dark: Illumination” ...

Atari has become a struggling company in the past few years, nearing bankruptcy in 2013, even after various mergers and acquisitions. Atari SA is still not in the best place but it has relaunched with the Atari Casino, which marked the company’s entrance in the social casino games industry. The platform is being developed alongside FlowPlay studio and promises a ...