Atari Alumni & Video Game News

Videogame names don’t come much bigger than Nolan Bushnell. The legendary entrepreneur cemented his place in history with the founding of Atari almost 40 years ago, bringing arcade classic Pong to the world and spawning a multibillion-dollar industry. Bushnell spoke with Yahoo! Games about the timeless appeal of Atari’s newly-remixed Missile Command, and pointed out [...]

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Publisher Atari has seen financial troubles over the past few years as it aims for a return to profitability, but the company’s newest financial results were “stable,” the company says.
Atari revealed just a 1.2 percent year over year decline in revenues to €92.5 million ($126.3 million) for the nine months ended December 31 — and [...]

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Yesterday we spotted a mention of a PC version of Atari’s upcoming PC version of Project Runway, the Sims-like game based on the popular reality TV show. Today we can report that Atari has confirmed to us that the PC versions of the game is indeed coming from the publisher. According to what a PR [...]

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Atari may not have published a ton of games in 2009, but that doesn’t mean the company hasn’t been picking up the bottom line. In a press release that reads like the exact opposite of those we saw from the company just a few years ago, CEO Jeff Lapin celebrates the €92.5 million ($126.25 million) [...]

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Twitterthe final frontier. These are the voyages of game-maker Atari. Its 2-month mission: to explore strange new social networks, to seek out new geeks and new game players, to boldly go where no ad campaign has gone before! [Cue intro] If you’re a Trekkie, you’re probably already well aware of the pending February 2nd launch [...]

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Leonard Nimoy’s participation in the upcoming Star Trek Online game is logical, but the official announcement today from Atari and developer Cryptic Studios is a welcome one for the PC-based massively multiplayer role-playing enterprise, embarking on Feb.
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Atari and Cryptic Studios have announced a Collector’s Edition and a Digital Deluxe Edition of Star Trek Online , available for purchase on February 2, 2010, for a limited time only.
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NEW YORK, Dec, 17 /PRNewswire/ — “Atari has had a long and rich history with the Dungeons and Dragons franchise, investing millions of dollars into numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful games that have generated significant revenue for Hasbro.
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Atari today announced a change in management at the top. David Gardner, who had been serving as CEO of Atari worldwide, will step down but retain his Director functions.
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One of my fondest childhood memories is of dropping a token in the Battlezone machine in the side room of the pizza restaurant near our house, stepping up to the simulated periscope, grasping the joysticks and moving my green wireframe tank across the moonscape in search of other tanks, the random cubes they hid behind [...]

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