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Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Atari Creator In Film

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Atari Creator In Film: This came to one of my interests in our product over a week ago.  Forgot to post it. It’s official: nerd has gone mainstream.
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Death Of A Legend?

June 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Last week saw the announcement that there will be a movie made about the history of Atari and one Nolan Bushenll who will supposedly be played by Leonardo Di Caprio (best start working on that beard Leo).  Many folks are hoping for exactly what I am, a no holds barred Boogie Nights style flick if [...]

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CGOverdrive 2008: Looking For Budding Talent

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

LucasArts doing a bit of recruiting The day of June the 17th marks the launch of the CGOverdrive Expo 2008 in the vast metroplex of the Singapore Expo. Presentations and masterclasses on animation techniques are being held for those who want to improve their craft. Game companies from 2K Shanghai to [...]

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Cagni is not “Alone in the (EMEA) Apple Park”. He also joined the board of Infogrames

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Ο αντιπρόεδρος της Apple στην Ευρώπη, Pascal Cagni, γνώριμός μας και από τις περίφημες δηλώσεις του τον Ιανουάριο του 2007, κατέλαβε τώρα και μια θέση στο Διοικητικό Συμβούλιο της γαλλικής εταιρίας Infogrames. Από την πλευρά της εταιρίας, που κατέχει το 51,2% των μετοχών της Atari, δήλωσαν ενθουσιασμένοι για την έλευση του κ. Cagni [...]

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Atari brings Deer Hunter Tournament to PC, 360 this Fall

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Atari brings Deer Hunter Tournament to PC, 360 this Fall 22 Comments by Ludwig Kietzmann Jun 17th 2008 11:00PM Filed under: PC, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters,
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Alone in the Dark was "too ambitious" for Atari

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Game director David Nadal tells us why the project was originally set for the bin. Now that Alone in the Dark is all done, game director David Nadal has come out to reveal why, in the early stages of development, Atari almost scrapped the whole project. Click here to read the full article
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A Boulder Dash Clone in Only 20 Lines of JavaScript

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

This was my very first entry for the quasi-regular, friendly 20-line JavaScript competition over at OZONE Asylum, for the month of January 2008 . My entry titled “Rockford the Invincible” got the second place among some very impressive entries (I was actually a bit shocked that I got the second place). [...]

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Classic Color Palettes: Video Games

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Print this page While technology may have limited the color palettes of some of the first, and most popular, video games, their colors are no less influential on modern game design and culture as a whole. Just as every note from the music of Super [...]

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Ubisoft to Develop a New Driver Game

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Reflections, developers of the Driver games, announced during an piece on the BBC, that they would be creating a new Driver game, which would be published by Atari.  The word from Ubisoft is not official, but seems like an obvious conclusion after Ubisoft purchased Reflections during the Atari Developer Fire Sale.  Beyond the mention of [...]

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Ubisoft al lavoro su un nuovo Driver?

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Ubisoft al lavoro su un nuovo Driver? pubblicato da Giant Lizard in: Segnalazioni Brevi Guida Action Se un gioco su Driver fallisce? Si prova e si riprova ancora. E’ forse questo che sta pensando il nuovo franchise di Ubisoft (forse con Atari c’è stata solamente sfortuna), stando a quanto [...]

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