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Update #2 [Fri 22nd Nov, 2024 11:45 GMT]: The Atari Jaguar emulator BigPEmu is now available to buy on the App Store. Its creator Rich Whitehouse shared the news yesterday on social media where he also revealed that a new version of the emulator (ver 1.16) had been publicly released. This...

Atari has announced it will be publishing a new 7800+ compatible port of the Miner 2049er sequel Bounty Bob Strikes Back! Miner 2049er was an incredibly influential early platforming game created by the programmer Bill Hogue and Big Five Software that saw players take control of the mountie...

We're all well aware that today's Atari is a very different beast from the one that blazed such a trail in the '70s and '80s with its arcade and console hardware. The Atari name has changed hands multiple times since the company's halcyon days, and, to be fair, the modern-day iteration is doing...

The publisher Songbird Productions and developer Eclipse Software are teaming up to deliver a brand new Atari Jaguar port of the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga shoot 'em up Wings of Death. Wings of Death was first released by Eclipse Software for the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga back in 1990 and...

Atari has indeed acquired the rights to Chris Sawyer's classic PC simulation game 'Transport Tycoon'. This acquisition was announced on November 1, 2024, marking a significant development in the gaming industry. Transport Tycoon, originally released in 1994 by MicroProse, is a beloved transport...

Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration is expanding its digital museum with The First Console War DLC, set to launch on November 8, 2024. This new content pack will add 19 retro games to the collection, focusing on the rivalry between Atari and Mattel's Intellivision in the late 1970s and 1980s...

Atari and Digital Eclipse have announced the final DLC expansion for Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, titled "The Wider World of Atari." This expansion is set to launch on September 26, 2024, and will add 19 new games to the collection. Here's a breakdown of the newly revealed games: 1...

The latest Humble Bundle offer features an excellent collection of over 100 classic Atari games, including both the Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration compilation as well as a number of modernized "Recharged" versions of Atari arcade classics. The Atari 50 collection contains a vast library...

The HyperMegaTech Super Pocket Technōs Edition and Atari Edition are two new retro gaming handhelds that were recently announced. The Technōs Edition comes pre-loaded with 15 classic arcade and console games from the Technōs library, including Double Dragon 1-3, River City Ransom, and Super...

The Atari decanter set sounds like a really cool and sophisticated piece of gaming-themed barware. It takes the iconic Atari CX-10 joystick design and turns it into a functional 750ml decanter, complete with two 300ml whiskey glasses featuring the Atari Fuji logo. The set is being marketed as...

Programmer and Jaguar fan Rich Whitehouse – who is also Head of Digital Conservation The Video Game History Foundation – has revealed that his iOS Jaguar emulator is almost ready for public release. Whitehouse showed off a screenshot of the emulator in action, running the iconic Tempest 2000...

Just the other day, Atari and developer Digital Eclipse announced that a new paid DLC expansion for Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration would be launching, er, tomorrow (that's 26th September 2024). Now, thanks to a reveal YouTube MetalJesusRocks, we now have a complete view of every new game...

Atari and developer Digital Eclipse have announced that the first paid DLC expansion for Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration will launch later this week on 26th September 2024. Dubbed 'The Wider World of Atari', the DLC will contain 19 additional games alongside a wealth of new documentary...

Atari CEO Wade Rosen has been speaking to Game Developer about his company's recent revival of the Infogrames brand and says that he wants it to become a "preservationist" publisher that can work with old IP and bring it up to date. Rather than signing up new games to publish under the...

Irem's legendary shmup R-Type has been shown running on the Atari 7800. According to @atariio, this is work-in-progress footage, but it nonetheless shows how capable Atari's system is in the right hands. "Beautiful side-scrolling with parallax background begins to demonstrate what the 7800 has...

Publisher Atari has announced that it is reviving a once-iconic racing gem for the Nintendo Switch called Fatal Run 2089. Based on the original Fatal Run for the Atari 2600 and 7800, the game features vehicular combat gameplay as you race across 20 tracks located across 4 distinct global...

Atari and Plaion have announced that they will be bringing out an updated version of the Atari 7800, which was originally released in the States back in 1986. The Atari 7800+ will support both 2600 and 7800 game cartridges, will be able to connect to any HDMI TV, and features widescreen or 4:3...

A new firmware update has just been released for the Atari 400 Mini, bringing with it a range of new fixes for the device as well as an additional game: the vertical shooter Caverns of Mars. This release takes the current total of pre-loaded games available on the device up to 26, from the 25...

Songbird Productions announced earlier today that it will be rereleasing Super Asteroids & Missile Command for the Atari Lynx. These two games, in case you never owned a Lynx, are essentially enhanced versions of the classic arcade coin-ops Asteroids and Missile Command, featuring updated...

Evercade maker Blaze is releasing two new Super Pocket handhelds as part of its HyperMegaTech line. Super Pocket Atari Edition will contain 50 arcade games , including Asteroids, Berzerk, Crystal Castles, Frenzy, and more, as well as over 30 console and handheld greats. Here's the full game...