When the video game company saw a major downturn in business, it had to do something with its dead stock collecting dust in a ...

Ubisoft just made a huge business deal with an unexpected partner – Atari! The two companies shared this press release: Atari and Ubisoft announced that Atari has acquired all intellectual property ...

Atari and My Arcade are back with new hardware, which isn’t a weird phrase to say in 2025 anymore. The company is following up its recent 2600+ and 7800+ hardware, as well as tributes to its computing ...

In 1982, the North American video game market looked invincible. Home console revenues had climbed to $3.2 billion that year, and the Atari 2600 was installed in millions of homes. The 1980 port of ...

Six years ago, Atari announced ambitious plans to build a gamer-themed hotel in Las Vegas, featuring an e-sports studio and a movie theater. The legacy video game company’s management at the time saw ...

While the video game industry is now larger than the movie and music businesses combined, it began with a simple game created as a training project. Al Alcorn, Atari’s first engineer and the inventor ...

The greatest game consoles of the past are remembered for a reason.

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