The spirit of 80s racing games lives on in Lego 2K Drive A new collaboration between 2K Games and Lego takes the form of an open-world racing game with buildable, breakable cars The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2023
Atari acquires System Shock remake developer for $10 million The deal is expected to be completed in April 2023 GamesRadar · Mar 23, 2023
Asylum seekers in Britain are obliged to grit their teeth Dental treatment is hard to get when you’re waiting for refugee status – but no worse than if you are a British resident The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2023
You Need to Play the Most Important Metroid Game on Nintendo Switch ASAP While a step backwards in terms of graphical fidelity, 'Metroid 2: Return of Samus' is a lo-fi masterpiece in terms of atmosphere and game design. Inverse · Feb 19, 2023
38 years ago, a goofy Nintendo prototype changed video games forever In 1985, Nintendo showed off a prototype for the Advanced Video System. This would eventually transform into the most important game console of all time. Inverse · Jan 9, 2023
Innovative products lead to a boom in imitation and often a bust - just look at Atari and Bitcoin Buried in a dusty landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico, are more than 700,000 discarded Atari game cartridges, including E.T., the 1982 Atari game based on the blockbuster film. This bleak trove of artifacts symbolizes the video game crash of 1983, when consumer demand plummeted and companies like Atari literally dumped… The Conversation · Dec 15, 2022
40 years ago, one woman changed the video game industry forever Carol Shaw's 'River Raid' became a million-seller and paved the way for female game devs everywhere Inverse · Dec 10, 2022
Zelda, Super Mario and other retro Nintendo games selling for as much as £700,000 From Clayfighter and Super Mario Bros to Pac-Man and The Legend of Zelda, some of your old neglected software may be a gold mine for you Wales Online · Dec 3, 2022
Nintendo needs to treat its older games with more respect Nearly four decades after the release of the NES, too many of Nintendo's classic video games are inaccessible to modern players. Inverse · Nov 25, 2022
‘No one had seen anything like it’: how video game Pong changed the world It started as a trick played on a young IT engineer, and has inspired art installations and even social experiments. Its creators – and those they influenced – hail the bleeping genius of a coin-op classic The Guardian - UK · Nov 25, 2022
‘My friends call me the BlackBerry queen!’ Meet the people clinging on to old tech – from faxes to VCRs You can keep your iPhones, emails and streaming videos. Aren from London, Lisa from St Louis and Billy from Wigan are quite happy with old-fashioned alternatives. And there are plenty more where they came from The Guardian - UK · Nov 23, 2022
It's Been 50 Years Since Humans Walked on the Moon The last time there was a manned mission to the moon, Pong had just been released on Atari. Reason · Nov 15, 2022
I am 50 years old and have a video game addiction – is that so wrong? Mark Beaumont, a child of the Atari joystick generation, always assumed he’d get over video games. It’s proven not to be the case. Now that he’s a father of one, his gaming has taken on a more clandestine hue The Independent UK · Sep 4, 2022
LEGO Atari 2600 review: An incredible nostalgic recreation that pays perfect homage LEGO celebrate Atari's 50th anniversary with an nostalgic model of their 2600 console Daily Mirror · Aug 27, 2022
Inverse · Aug 20, 2022 40 years ago, this classic Atari game redefined platformers forever Despite being one of the Atari 2600's most popular games, the influence of 'Pitfall!' is easy to overlook. Here's why this classic is still a marvel 40 years on.
Inverse · Aug 15, 2022 'Alone in the Dark' trailer, developer, and platforms for the horror reboot The franchise that started the survival horror genre is being rebooted by THQ Nordic and it looks like a worthy rival to Resident Evil. Here's what we know.
Wales Online · Jul 20, 2022 LEGO launches Atari 2600 set with games and a 'gaming room' It even comes with a moveable joystick
USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 15, 2022 How one movie tie in video game crashed the entire industry Atari's E.T the Extra-Terrestrial game is one of the industry's biggest failures. Here's the story of how it happened.
The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2022 There is no objective history of video games – every player’s experience is different Depending on where you lived and which consoles or computers you had as a child, the story plays out completely differently – and we should embrace that subjectivity
Wales Online · Jul 4, 2022 The 1980s items that could be worth a fortune as Stranger Things reignites nostalgia Have you got any of these hiding in your loft?
The Guardian - UK · Jun 30, 2022 Pushing Buttons: Happy 50th birthday to Atari, whose simple games gave us so much In this week’s newsletter: As the revolutionary company celebrates a half-century, we look back at everything video games owe to Atari
360info · Jun 29, 2022 As arcade games died out, Asteroids lived on It was a few white lines on a black screen, but Asteroids became Atari’s most popular arcade game.
Chronicle Live · Jun 5, 2022 Inside the unique Whitley Bay café where you can play retro video games Retro Bay Café boasts a selection of classics from Nintendo, Sega, Atari and more, spanning from the 1970s
Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 9, 2022 Rare Steve Jobs Items Hit the Auction Block Items from the birth of Apple, home computing and video gaming are up for grabs at an auction, which will conclude on March 17. The top lot from "The Steve Jobs Revolution: Engelbart, Atari, and Apple" auction is a July 1976 check to pay $3,430 for parts for the Apple…
The Conversation · Jan 23, 2022 Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard: with the video game industry under new management, what's going to change? In 1979, a group of disgruntled Atari employees decided to quit and create their own company. Activision was the world’s first “third-party” game development company, producing and publishing titles for other companies’ platforms.