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Atari Games Buried in a Landfill? Old Legend Prompts New Search

By Josh Wolford June 5, 2013

Legend has it that there’s a massive grave of Atari games, most notably millions of copies of the epic commercial failure E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, buried in a New Mexico landfill. If you’re an Atari nerd or video game historian, you …

Play Atari’s Breakout in Google Image Search with This Awesome Easter Egg
By Josh Wolford · May 13, 2013 2

If you were planning on getting any more work done today, well, cancel those plans. Go to Google Image search and type “atari breakout.” Are you doing it yet? What you’ll find is a wonderful little Easter Egg from Google, …
Atari’s U.S. Branch Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
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Atari Embraces HTML5 In Internet Explorer 10
40 Years of Atari Celebrated with Arcade Giveaways [Infographic]

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Iconic Video Games Get The IRL Treatment
By Richard Stalker · May 24, 2012

The reality of how newer games are designed is that they want to get as close to reality as possible. Older games? It was an exercise in making the game fun, regardless of how it translated to real life. So …

Gaming

What If Angry Birds Was Released in the 80's?
By Chris Gabbard · April 5, 2012 · 1 Comment

What do IntelliVision, the Commadore 64, and Atari 2600 all have in common? Aside from all bringing back awesome memories for children of the early 80′s and being hilarious examples of how much technology has changed, they all featured a …

Gaming

Atari Wants Indie Devs To Remake Pong
By Zach Walton · February 28, 2012

Pong is one of the greatest games ever made. Maybe not for its compelling gameplay, but for its simplicity that brought video games to millions of households. Atari has never really captured that kind of magic again, but they are …

Gaming

DLD 2012: Atari Founder Details New Education Initiative
By Zach Walton · January 24, 2012 · 2 Comments

Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s, has a new pet project that aims straight for the classroom. At the Digital Life Design conference yesterday, Bushnell outlined his plans for Speed to Learn according to the DLD tumblr. …

Gaming

Atari To Develop Its Own Virtual World
By Joe Lewis · April 17, 2007

Second Life has inspired numerous other start-ups looking to take advantage of the hype surrounding the user-generated virtual world phenomenon.

While many companies are looking to make a name for themselves with such aspirations, Atari just wants to reclaim its piece of the video gaming pie.

Just what sort of unmitigated chaos has been wrought in the wake of Second Life’s popularity?

Gaming

Tagging Pits Atari Against NYC Councilman
By WebProNews Staff · July 21, 2005

Atari plans to release Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure video game in the fall; Peter Vallone says the game will glorify graffiti.

Business

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Atari Announces Xbox 360 Title At E3
By WebProNews Staff · May 16, 2005

A previously unannounced title from the legendary game company will be for Microsoft’s next-generation console.

Business

Atari To Enter The Matrix
By Chris Richardson · February 14, 2005

Video game eternalists Atari are planning on giving gamers a chance to return to The Matrix during the upcoming holiday season.

Atari Games Buried in a Landfill? Old Legend Prompts New Search

Play Atari’s Breakout in Google Image Search with This Awesome Easter Egg

Atari’s U.S. Branch Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

Atari Embraces HTML5 In Internet Explorer 10

40 Years of Atari Celebrated with Arcade Giveaways [Infographic]

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