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Bubsy 4D devs joke they were ‘bullied into’ making the game—but had a blast creating it

Are you ready to return to peak?

Destructoid

5 Items From the 1970s That Are Worth a Lot of Money

If you are a collector, saver or even accidental hoarder of your old belongings, you could be sitting on a sneaky pile of cash.

GOBankingRates

There are 3 dream remasters Atari's CEO wants to work on, but he has no idea if they'd actually 'do well'

Snatching up IP.

PC Gamer

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Hideo Kojima's overlooked cyberpunk adventure game is one of the three games Atari's CEO would love to remaster: "I don’t know if it would do well, but I’d probably push it through"

Konami, please.

GamesRadar

From Forza to GTA: The Best New Racing Games Coming Soon

When Gran Trak 10 debuted on the Atari console in 1974, it was revolutionary. For the first time ever, gamers could get behind the wheel of a virtual race car and test their skills on a track—albeit a very basic one.

Motor1

Atari has picked up five Ubisoft games to bring to modern platforms, including its attempt at Resident Evil's crown

More importantly, Tetsuya Mizuguchi's spiritual successor to Rez is finally going to be free from its PS3 / 360 jail

GamesRadar

Atari now owns the rights to five Ubisoft games: Cold Fear, I Am Alive, Child of Eden, Grow Home, and Grow Up

Nightdive remasters on the way?

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Bubsy 4D's devs already made one of my favorite platformers ever, so like it or not, I guess I'm playing it

Opinion | If you think you're too good for Bubsy 4D you're a coward

GamesRadar

Atari aims to be "best in the world at retro games," CEO says, which is why it's put its money into keeping brilliant retro studios like Nightdive and Digital Eclipse from having to worry about making payroll

But "the brand deserves to be something more" so it can plaster neon Atari signs on every building "like in Blade Runner"

GamesRadar

Indie devs' weirdly promising Bubsy 4D wouldn't exist if the clouds hadn't parted and blessed the Atari CEO with a revelation: "I was like, 'Is this a nationally known IP?'"

I don't know, is it?

GamesRadar

You know and hated Bubsy 3D, now get ready for Bubsy 4D from Atari: a bit of '90s "platforming purrfection" that might signal the End Times

We're in danger

GamesRadar

Steve Jobs’ first Silicon Valley boss turned down an offer to buy a third of Apple for $50,000—today, his share would be worth nearly $1 trillion

Atari cofounder Nolan Bushnell missed out on becoming a trillionaire because he snubbed an offer from his ex-employee, the late Steve Jobs.

Fortune

'You've got basically one AI playing in the mind of another AI': Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explains how AI is coming full circle back to gaming

And maybe we're all in the mind of another AI, howaboutthat?

PC Gamer

You can now pre-order Atari's 2600+ Pac-Man Edition console, but I find its price just as scary as its release date

The upcoming Atari 2600+ Pac-Man Edition console and joysticks are now up for pre-order at Amazon, but it costs $40 more than the 2023 version.

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Inverse

'Missile Command Delta' Director Hopes the Game Leaves You Questioning Tyranny

'Missile Command Delta' is a bold reimagining of an arcade classic, and the game's Cold War inspirations were a huge part of finding a new identity.

TechRadar

Bandai Namco and Atari reveal the Atari 2600+ Pac-Man Edition to celebrate the arcade icon's 45th anniversary

Pac-Man's 45th anniversary celebration continues with an unexpected hardware collab with Atari.

GamesRadar

3 years later, my favorite retro game collection is getting fresh DLC complete with the "first-ever re-release" of the broken Pac-Man port that became the best-selling game of the pre-Nintendo era

Bad games deserve to be in these collections, too

Tom’s Hardware

Google Gemini crumbles in the face of Atari Chess challenge — admits it would 'struggle immensely' against 1.19 MHz machine, says canceling the match most sensible course of action

Google Gemini decided to call off its chess match against the ancient 1.19 Mhz Atari 2600 console after a friendly pre-game reminder about what happened to ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot.

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Copilot and ChatGPT went against a 4 KB Atari chess game from the 70s — with an embarrassing effort from Microsoft's AI

An almost 50-year-old Atari Chess game left both Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT LLM chatbots in defeat against 4KB of ancient technology.

TechRadar

Atari Video Chess checkmates Copilot after knocking over ChatGPT's king

When two of the most advanced AI models lost to a 1979 chess game, it exposed how sounding smart isn’t the same as actually thinking.

Inverse

45 Years Later, A Classic Atari Series Just Got A Bold Reimaging

Missile Command Delta is a subtly ingenious reimagination of one of the all-time great arcade game experiences.

PC Gamer

Space Invaders creator recalls building arcade games with mirrors, making a prototype console that never saw release, and how short-sighted Taito's sales team was about videogames: 'These things will never sell'

"Younger people who want to make games should play really old games… there is something shining within them."

The Guardian - UK

From Pong to Wii Sports: the surprising legacy of tennis in gaming history

From the lab-born Tennis for Two to the console classics of Nintendo and Sega, the sport has been a constant, foundational force in gaming’s rise

Tom’s Hardware

Not to be outdone by ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot humiliates itself in Atari 2600 chess showdown — another AI humbled by 1970s tech despite trash talk

Microsoft Copilot is the latest AI to have been trounced in Atari Chess, despite its pre-game confidence in a victory.

GamesRadar

This tiny Atari console is naturally great for Pac-Man, but I use it to play one of the most cursed retro games from the '80s

The Atari 400 Mini is a fantastic retro console time capsule for playing classics like Pac-Man, but it'll also help you easily try forgotten oddities.

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