Atari — yes, that Atari — is getting into the hotel business. The video game pioneer is putting its name on eight new hotels across the U.S., including one in… Read More
— Atari Women, a University of Washington research project, is looking to give more limelight to the women who were crucial during the early age of game development. The group,… Read More
“To me, under that landfill is actually the burial site of an entire industry, because what affected Atari at the time affected everyone. And everything I thought was going to… Read More
At San Diego Comic-Con, Microsoft released the first trailer for “Atari: Game Over,” a documentary about the rise and fall of Atari, and the renowned gaming company’s utter failure to… Read More
Turns out Atari did, indeed, bury a giant cache of unsold “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” video-game cartridges in a New Mexico landfill more than three decades ago. Yes, the game was that bad.… Read More
If you live in New Mexico and want to see a bunch of old Atari games dug out of the ground, well, mark your calendars. Microsoft announced today that the… Read More
Atari Inc. is entering the fast-growing social casino gaming arena. In its first partnership since cutting a deal to emerge out of bankruptcy, Atari is teaming up with Seattle-based gaming company… Read More
A plan to excavate a suspected mass burial of Atari ET video-game cartridges for a Microsoft Xbox documentary has been blocked, at least temporarily, by environmental concerns at the site… Read More
If you miss the good ‘ol days playing games like Donkey Kong and Missile Command on classic old-school consoles, there’s a new badass website you really should to check out.… Read More
It’s fitting that the first documentary slated for Microsoft’s Xbox is about video games. But it sounds like a great story even for non-gamers. Atari’s “mass burial” of unsold game… Read More
If you’ve ever wanted to jump in a time machine and relive the 40-year history of video games, well, Seattle’s EMP museum is the place to do it. Opening this… Read More
This just might be the coolest-looking Xbox 360 out there. To help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the arcade classic Pong — yes, it’s been that long — Atari is giving away… Read More
Woz says he’d mull return to Apple if asked — which he hasn’t been. Geek Zodiac. Too bad geeks don’t get into things like ancient celestial paths based on constellations and ecliptic… Read More