Nostalgia for so-called “retro games” has been kicking around since the late ’90s, so it might seem shocking that the best-selling home video game for much of the 1980s didn’t get an official ...

The Infogrames publishing label is coming back to business after quite a few years off the market. The name has been through the grinder, having acquired the Atari name and rebranded to it in 2003, ...

Atari has snatched up a large collection of classic video game titles and franchises this week, this time focusing on the back catalog of companies like Accolade, Infogrames, and Microprose. The ...

Now, it seems its latest addition is Thunderful, a company best known for its SteamWorld series of games. Thunderful has been ...

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In the mid-’70s, Mattel Electronics started putting together a plan to release a game console that would end up taking on Atari, showing the future of what games could be, and introducing what remains ...

Even though I was a child of the ’90s who grew up with a Sega Genesis, my favorite console was my mother’s hand-me-down Atari 2600. It was the one console I kept hooked up to the TV in my bedroom, ...

A decade ago, DeepMind achieved a major AI breakthrough, enabling systems to learn retro video games like Space Invaders ...

A planned Atari Hotel in downtown Phoenix is fueling debate over growth, history and the future of Roosevelt Row.

Atari and Jasozz Games have confirmed a release date for their first-person shooter CULTIC on Nintendo Switch 2.

As the pandemic raged in 2020, a revolution played out in the entertainment world. In that year, video game revenue grew 20% to a whopping $179.7 billion — pulling in more money than global movies and ...

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