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The company currently using the name ‘Atari’ has said that it is perfectly justified to pursue Jeff Minter over the similarities between his game TxK and retro classic Tempest. Minter yesterday revealed that he has been forced to scrap the PS4, PC and VR versions of TxK following a copyright …
Read More »Atari copyright claim forces Minter to scrap TxK ports
Developer "beyond disgusted" as future versions of Tempest spiritual successor are blocked by original's publisher
Read More »UPDATED: Atari blocks Jeff Minter from releasing new versions of TxK
The planned PS4, PC and Android releases of Llamasoft’s shooter TxK will not be released following a copyright claim from Atari. TxK’s creator Jeff Minter has said that he’s been forced the cancel the games following pressure from Atari, which seemingly has claimed a copyright violation alleging that the game …
Read More »Atari revives Asteroid as open world multiplayer game
Arcade classic completely revamped for PC by developer Salty Games
Read More »Atari ‘re-imagines’ Asteroids with new open-world PC survival game
Not shy of reinvention, Atari is taking one of its classic arcade IPs and doing something different. Very different. Asteroids shot to fame when it hit arcades in 1979 as a 2D vector arcade shooter. Asteroids: Outpost, however, is looking to capitalise on the recent trend for survival games set …
Read More »Atari announces Alone in the Dark: Illumination
The Alone in the Dark IP is making a return. Atari has announced that Alone in the Dark: Illumination will be released on PC this autumn and feature a mix of new twists, storylines and gameplay to give players a frightening new experience”. Chief amongst the new features is online …
Read More »Alone in the Dark, Haunted House reboots heading to PC this fall
Atari has announced reboots for survival horror classics Alone in the Dark and Haunted House will release later this year. The publisher will demo the pair of re-imagined titles in Seattle later this month, alongside the latest RollerCoaster Tycoon efforts. The Alone in the Dark update—entitled Alone in the Dark: …
Read More »Atari returns as ‘interactive entertainment production’ company
Atari Interactive has detailed plans to resurrect itself AGAIN, this time as an interactive entertainment production company,” with a focus on licensing, digital games, online gambling and more. The company will look to continue expanding its classic arcade titles including Asteroids, Centipede and Pong onto digital platforms such as mobile …
Read More »‘Atari is a hardware brand’ new CEO asserts
The Atari brand means many things to many people, but above all else it remains a hardware brand. That’s according to new CEO Frederic Chesnais who told VentureBeat that while a successor to the Atari 2600 may not be on the cards the company does occupy a special position in …
Read More »"I did that!" – James Heller said he was the man who buried all those ET cartridges
The man who was responsible for burying huge numbers of Atari 2600 cartridges in the New Mexico desert has revealed himself. ET and others games were amongst the thousands of items recently unearthed in Alamagordo as part of a Microsoft documentary. And now local news network KBOI2 has named James …
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