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Star Trek Online Season Two: Ancient Enemies Released

July 29th, 2010 · No Comments

Atari, one of the world’s most recognized publishers and producers of interactive entertainment, and renowned MMO developer Cryptic Studios, have announced the availability of Season Two: Ancient Enemies, the latest content update for the Star Trek Online universe. Season Two: Ancient Enemies is available at no additional cost to current Star Trek Online players. The [...]

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Atari’s Haunted House returns to scare PC, Xbox 360 and Wii

July 16th, 2010 · No Comments

Atari is finally bringing back its classic Haunted House  franchise for a new XBLA, downloadable PC, and Wii game. For those of you who aren’t ancient, Haunted House is a maze game about a kid exploring a mysterious mansion in order to put an urn back together, hindered both by aggressive ghosts and total inability [...]

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30 SECRETS OF ATARI

July 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

The real story of Asteroids, Pac-Man, Pong and Pole Position…
1 Nolan Bushnell, Atari’s founding father, originally named the company Syzygy (the sun, moon and earth in total eclipse). He renamed it Atari because another company already owned the name Syzygy.
2 Bushnell is generally believed to be the author of Pong, Atari’s first game. Actually, [...]

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Join Thousands of Players Online, Race the Worlds Most Coveted Cars, and Live the Ultimate Luxury Lifestyle

June 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

Atari, SA, one of the world’s most recognized videogame publishers, and much-acclaimed developer Eden Games, are proud to announce the newest installment in the legendary racing franchise with Test Drive® Unlimited 2 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC coming Fall 2010.
Test Drive Unlimited [...]

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Atari Improves Full-Year Loss As Revenues Fall

June 17th, 2010 · No Comments

Publisher Atari shrunk its full-year loss from 221.9 million euros ($272.4 million) to 19.4 million euros ($23.8 million), and saw a small profit of 3.8 million euros ($4.7 million)) in the second half of the year — thanks in part to Cryptic-developed MMOs like Star Trek Online and Champions Online.
The results demonstrate a dramatic improvement [...]

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Atari teams up with partners for Sandlot Sluggers

May 26th, 2010 · No Comments

Videogame publisher, Atari has announced that its all-star line-up of partners to support the launch of the Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers video game for the Xbox 360, Wii and Nintendo DS, which ships out May 25, 2010. Franklin Sports, GT Beverages, Baseball Youth, and the National Alliance of Youth Sports, Inc. have signed on as [...]

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Codename: Panzers - Cold War

May 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

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Tempelhof, Berlin, dawn of 8th April 1949.
A major armed conflict is brewing between the Western powers and the Soviet bloc. The Red Army has been growing ever stronger since the end of World War II. With the growth of their army the Soviets realize that they hold the advantage, and are only waiting for [...]

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SPY Fox™: Dry Cereal™

May 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

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SPY Fox™ is SPY Corp’s top secret agent. Bad guys don’t stand a chance against this clever fox and his stash of cool, high-tech spy gadgets! In Dry Cereal™, the world’s dairy cows have been “cow-napped” by a villainous goat, forcing kids to eat their cereal without milk! Team up with SPY Fox to [...]

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Freddi Fish™: The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds

May 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

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Help Freddi Fish find the seaweed seeds and save her friends! Do you know what the fish from the oceans feed on? Well, seaweed seeds of course! But now this food source, upon which the survival of all sea life depends, has been stolen by Don Calamaro and his gang. Fortunately, Freddi Fish and [...]

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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

May 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

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The second installment in the RPG saga of the Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, features a thoroughly engrossing, mature storyline defining new standards for thought-provoking, non-linear game narration. In addition to an epic story, the game features an original, brutal combat system that uniquely combines tactical elements with dynamic action. A new, modern game engine, [...]

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