The Latest Breaking News from Atari

Even Atari is getting in on the acquisitions game, as the retro game company announced its purchase of game port company Nightdive Studios

A new collaboration between 2K Games and Lego takes the form of an open-world racing game with buildable, breakable cars

The deal is expected to be completed in April 2023

Dental treatment is hard to get when you’re waiting for refugee status – but no worse than if you are a British resident

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.

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.

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…

Carol Shaw's 'River Raid' became a million-seller and paved the way for female game devs everywhere

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

Nearly four decades after the release of the NES, too many of Nintendo's classic video games are inaccessible to modern players.

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