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Contra Rebirth Releases Today via WiiWare

October 26th, 2009 · No Comments

It’s already made a splash in Japan and Europe, now the good ‘ole U.S. of A gets the chance to blow away baddies from the future in the old-school style sequel Contra Rebith. Rebirth isn’t a remix of the original, but instead takes the 16-bit retro look and feel, then adds a new story, levels [...]

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1 Million d’exemplaires pour Ghostbusters

July 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Atari, Terminal Rality et Sony sont fier d’annoncer que leur adaptation du film Ghostbusters en jeu vidéo se vends bien ! Car Ghostbusters à atteints la barre d’un millions d’exemplaires vendus à travers le monde, ce qui est déjà un succès quand on sait que les ventes peuvent encore évoluer, car en Europe [...]

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Atari shuts up shop - In Europe at least

May 14th, 2009 · No Comments

In a “blink and you’ll miss it” moment it turns out that Atari is now an American only brand and the European side of things has been cleanly wrapped up and shoved down the toilet. Why this has happened is utterly beyond me but the reaasons being given is that Namco Bandai has purchased Atari [...]

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Atari Europe to be bought out by Namco Bandai, Atari US to become online-centric

May 14th, 2009 · No Comments

In a report posted on game trade site MCV, it seems as though Atari will no longer be a European brand, but instead focus on US operations, while Japanese megalith Namco Bandai will buy out Atari’s current operations in Europe, rebranded as Distribution Partners. In March of last year, [...]

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Report: Atari finished in Europe, Namco taking over

May 14th, 2009 · No Comments

And thus concludes Atari’s European operations, reports MCV . Infogrames/Atari announced in March that it was selling its 66 percent stake in Distribution Partners, a retail distribution and marketing company, to Namco Bandai . MCV states Atari Europe will shut down in the coming weeks and the sales/marketing team will transition [...]

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Brain Exercise con el Dr. Kawashima llegará el 29 mayo (PC)

April 29th, 2009 · No Comments

Título : Brain Exercise con el Dr. Kawashima Género : Casual Games, inteligencia Plataforma : PC (DVD ROM) Desarrollador : Namco Tales Studio Ltd. y Namco Bandai Games Europe S.A.S. Editor / Distribuidor : Namco Bandai Games/ Atari Fecha de lanzamiento : 29 de mayo 2009 Clasificación : [...]

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Infogrames Completes Atari Acquisition

October 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Quote: Infogrames has completed its acquisition of Atari, the US-based publisher, in a deal worth around million. The French company can now definitively unite the Atari brand, the use of which Infogrames has had the right to in Europe and other parts of the world for some [...]

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E308: Atari and irritating celebrity chef combine for cooking game

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: News, Screens It was, we suppose, inevitable. Nintendo’s Cooking Guide released in Japan two years ago (as Cooking Navi), where it shifted a decent number of units. It recently emerged in Europe, and did pretty well there, too (it’ll be coming to the U.S. this November). And what happens each time Nintendo [...]

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Alone in the Dark Burns up the Charts

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Atari and Eden Games celebrated the news that its revolutionary action survival game Alone in the Dark has topped the Xbox 360™ sales charts across Europe following its release on 20 June 2008. Alone in the Dark is..
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Alone in the Dark tops European charts

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments

June 26, 2008 at 12:53 PM Atari and Eden Games have announced that action survival game Alone in the Dark has topped the Xbox 360 sales charts across Europe. Since its release on the 20th of June, Alone in the Dark has secured the number one spot in [...]

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