Atari Announces Caverns of Mars: Recharged Arriving Soon to PC, Switch, Consoles, and Atari VCS
Atari, one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers, is thrilled to announce the next addition to the massively popular Atari Recharged series: Caverns of Mars. Based on the classic vertical scrolling shooter, Caverns of Mars: Recharged retains its retro charm and once again sees players descend through the subterranean landscape […]
Blast From the Amazing Past With the Atari 50 Celebration Collection
Video gamers past and present should check out Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration collection. Packed with 50 years of gaming history from Atari, this new collection of over 90 titles is more of a digital museum where you can play with the exhibits.
Retro Game Friday: Xevious
Michael’s back with another classic game for this week’s Retro Game Friday. It’s Xevious!
Slitherine Acquires Master of Magic Franchise From Atari
In a continuous bid to update and modernize popular strategy IPs and bringing them to the 21st century, Slitherine has acquired the full publishing rights to the Master of Magic franchise from Atari. This is one of the most recognizable names in videogames history. It’s one of the key pillars of turn-based strategy gaming and […]
Atari Brings the New Atari VCS To E3 2019
Atari one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — today makes several major announcements about its all-new Atari VCS home gaming and entertainment system during the 2019 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, where it is holding private preview meetings with press, retailers, and content partners. The Atari VCS […]
Old-school Arcade Action Reborn in Tempest 4000
A perfect example of a crowd-funded success, Tempest 4000 pulls the best elements from Tempest 2000, Tempest X, Space Giraffe and the classic arcade game into a visually stunning new title that is sure to dazzle!
Retro Game Friday: Battlezone
Michael’s back with a really old classic for this week’s Retro Game Friday! It’s Battlezone, the 1980 version!
Loving Classic Video and Olympic Summer Games
It seems like all the GiN columnists are on vacation. Editor John Breeden is again at the helm, this time for Chella. He’s catching Olympic fever this week, but perhaps more so for those classic track and field games of yesteryear.
E.T. finally phones home
News that the urban legend of Atari burying thousands of Atari 2600 copies of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial has been confirmed. This has led the lounge crew to think back on other terrible games that should have probably been tossed in as well.
Atari’s “E.T.” Graveyard Found for ‘The Worst Game Ever Made’
“Urban legend CONFIRMED,” was the tweet from Xbox creator, Larry Hryb, who was present as a 30 year-old job lot of Atari game cartridges were unearthed in the New Mexico desert. Known as the game that killed Atari, “E.T.” was a massive flop. The game was rushed out in just a few weeks to accompany Stephen Spielberg’s mega-hit […]