Tag: atari
Atari partners with Anstream Arcade for retro gaming
Atari launches… umm… a fitness app.
Atari CEO hints at new hardware from the company – and pitches some crazy ideas
Atari, best known for "the 1980s", is not only still going, but it has a new CEO – Frederic Chesnais. And he's hinting that the company are considering releasing new hardware, but it isn't what you think it might be….
Wii U: Pong creator Nolan Bushnell baffled by Nintendo's new machine, predicts its failure
It's only been on sale for a week in the States, and doesn't even hit UK shelves until Friday 30 November, but already games industry luminaries are predicting Nintendo's Wii U console will be a failure. Nolan Bushnell, Atari founder…
REVIEW: Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale (Xbox 360 XBLA)
Riddled with more bugs than an unwashed dwarf's beard.
CES 2011 – Ion's Atari iCade retro gaming iPad dock
A joint production with Atari, the Ion iCade tuns your iPad into a eighties style Atari games console complete with those indestructible knobs and buttons. Apparently the whole back catalogue of Atari is now on iTunes so you can…
Retro Thing release classic USB Joystick. Take that, evil space invaders!
You can shove your PS3s and Xbox 360s; put yourself in front of a classic Galaxian arcade cabinet and watch as it devourers all the silver in your pockets with old-school gaming joy. Emulators like MAME may keep your piggybank…
Atari launch Photo Sauce Facebook photo editor
They may be best known for their pioneering games such as Pong and Gauntlet, but videogame legends Atari are set to enter the world of social networking with their Photo Sauce application for Facebook.
Asteroids the movie – what HD was made for
Asteroids is coming to a big screen near you. That’s no lie. The classic Atari title, originally released 30 years ago, is being made into a movie.
I’m expecting it to be quite intense viewing – plenty of complicated dialogue, elaborate plot twists and some Oscar-worthy performances from its cast.
Or maybe it will stay faithful to the original game and will simply be two-hours of a triangle-based spaceship blowing up some square-ish looking asteroids with little or no plot at all. Maybe they could even shoot it in black and white for added authenticity.
Universal has apparently signed up Matthew Lopez to write the script for the film which will be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura.
It sounds like a winner. No honestly. Although it will have a hard job dislodging Super Mario Bros as the best ever movie adaptation of a game. Bob Hoskins as Mario – genius.
(via THR & @clashcityrocker)
Get yourself in the mood for the movie with a quick blast on the original game:
Atari abandons filesharing lawsuits
Following the news the other week that some pensioners had been accused of downloading pirated games, Atari has abandoned its ‘sue-your-own-customers’ strategy, developed in conjunction with trigger-happy lawyers Davenport-Lyons.
Although the company maintains that it will “always retain and reserve the right to protect our intellectual property from illegal copying and piracy”, this is a positive step from a company realising that the only thing it’s actually getting out of the campaign of intimidation is bad press.
Will other companies follow? Codemasters is the biggest games publisher still associated with the troubled law firm. With any luck, it will wake up too, and realise that bringing legal action against its customers is far more trouble that it’s worth. There are many other options for making money with games.
I’m off to go buy some Atari games.
Atari (via TorrentFreak)
Related posts: Pensioners ‘caught’ pirating games | Atari and Codemasters join video game piracy legal fight – £300 fines on the way to 25,000 game-sharers
