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Retro Mini-Machine The 400 Mini Recreates the Delights of the Atari 400 in March

Plaion and Retro Games have announced The 400 Mini, a new mini-console that aims to recreate the retro stylings of the late-70s Atari 400 computer. Launching in March, the machine will feature 25…

January 11, 2024 | 10:21 EST

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Atari Announces $2 Million Investment in Hello Neighbor Publisher tinyBuild

Atari has announced that it has made a pretty major investment in Hello Neighbor and Potion Craft publisher tinyBuild. Per a press release, Atari is investing $2 million into tinyBuild as part of…

December 21, 2023 | 09:24 EST

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Atari Acquires Retro Specialist Studio Digital Eclipse In Multi-Million Dollar Deal

Atari has announced that it is to acquire retro gaming specialist studio Digital Eclipse. The deal is expected to be finalized in the coming days and totals $20m in value, with $6.5m of that being…

October 31, 2023 | 09:04 EDT

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EVE Online Reveals EVE Vanguard FPS Module, New Expansion, and More

Today CCP Games is celebrating all things EVE Online at EVE Fanfest 2023, and it had quite a few interesting announcements for and of the venerable space MMORPG.  The first and perhaps most…

September 22, 2023 | 10:19 EDT

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Haunted House Release Date Revealed Just In Time For Spooky Season

Atari has announced a Haunted House release date, meaning you'll be able to play the upcoming roguelite retro revival just in time for spooky season. Per a press release, Haunted House launches…

September 18, 2023 | 09:03 EDT

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New Free Eve Online Expansion Announced To Celebrate 20th Anniversary

CCP Games has announced that a new free Eve Online expansion is in the works. The studio is currently celebrating its spacefaring MMO's 20th anniversary, and Viridian is just part of the celebrations…

May 2, 2023 | 08:50 EDT

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Atari Buys Up 12 Classic Arcade Franchises Including Berzerk And More

Legendary retro gaming studio Atari has announced that it has acquired 12 classic arcade gaming properties. The studio says this acquisition has been effected in order to "expand digital and physical…

March 16, 2023 | 09:52 EDT

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Atari Reveals $1000 50th Anniversary Cartridge Collections

Atari has announced a full collection of its 50th anniversary cartridges for collectors. The box set will run you an eye-watering $1000, but it contains carts for all 10 of the Atari 50th Anniversary…

February 7, 2023 | 10:24 EST

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Atari Mania

Atari Mania is a microgame adventure taking many of Atari's classic titles and mashing them together. Microgame challenges are linked together by some mild exploration and puzzle solving, as you…

December 27, 2022 | 11:54 EST

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Atari CEO Offers To Buy Atari After Rough Year

Atari might be a household name in the gaming industry, but it's had a rough year. In fact, its finances are dire enough that the company's CEO has offered to step in and purchase it, an offer that…

December 22, 2022 | 10:06 EST

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More Rollercoaster Tycoon Games Coming As License Extended

Atari has announced that it's renewed the Rollercoaster Tycoon license for another ten years, so if you were worried the franchise might die, it looks like you don't have anything to worry about.…

October 10, 2022 | 11:19 EDT

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Atari Mania Review

There should be more games like WarioWare. Nintendo's microgame collections are effortlessly innovative, and few games can even approach the garlic-loving developer's gameplay madness. Perhaps this…

October 11, 2022 | 06:32 EDT

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Missile Command: Recharged Replacing Missile Command: Recharged

Atari is planning to replace Missile Command: Recharged with...uh...Missile Command: Recharged. The studio says it's planning a full 2.0 rework for the game, which launched its Atari Recharged series…

October 4, 2022 | 10:06 EDT

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Atari 50th Anniversary NFT Collection Announced, Hooray

Atari has revealed that it's still very much on board the NFT bandwagon by announcing a new set. The Atari 50th anniversary NFT collection will be a collaboration with artist Butcher Billy and will…

August 25, 2022 | 10:11 EDT

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Yars: Recharged Review

A long, long time ago, Atari 2600 owners the world over enjoyed a little game called Yars' Revenge. This era of gaming is difficult to go back to if you were born beyond the crash, but those early…

August 22, 2022 | 08:00 EDT

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Yars: Recharged

Yars: Recharged is an arcade shoot-em-up bullet hell that will have players struggling to survive deadly pulse cannons and swirling missiles. Power-Ups will allow players to shoot in all directions…

August 10, 2022 | 03:15 EDT

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The Yars: Recharged Release Date Will Have You Buzzing

The Yars: Recharged release date has just been announced for August 23rd, 2022. It's coming to PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Atari VCS, Stadia, and PC via Steam and the Epic Store. Pretty much…

July 29, 2022 | 11:10 EDT

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Atari 50 Takes You Through Atari's History This Winter

Atari has announced Atari 50, a celebratory "interactive museum"-style game intended to commemorate its 50th anniversary. The compilation will include documentary footage, interviews with Atari…

June 29, 2022 | 11:36 EDT

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EVE Online Career Program Teaches New Players

The space MMO EVE Online has been continuously expanding its universe and now it expands its fundamentals. A new update to the game will be introducing the AIR Career Program to the system. Due to…

June 28, 2022 | 02:23 EDT

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Eve Online Microsoft Excel Crossover Actually Happening

An Eve Online Microsoft Excel crossover has been announced (yes, really). You'll soon be able to export Eve Online data directly into Excel, allowing you to work out everything from battle strategy…

May 6, 2022 | 11:02 EDT

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GOG Good Old Games Week Brings Back More Classics Like People's General

The GOG Good Old Games Week, an initiative by GOG to spotlight its catalog of retro games, continues today with the addition of a beloved strategy classic. People's General is now available on GOG,…

May 2, 2022 | 11:52 EDT

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Eve Online Subscription And Plex Price Hike Coming Next Month

CCP has announced an Eve Online price hike. The prices of both subscriptions and PLEX currency will go up next month, with the monthly subscription fee rising by $5, representing the first time it's…

April 22, 2022 | 11:06 EDT

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Eve Online Has 'No Plans' for Blockchain or Crypto

CCP Games CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson has said that there are "no plans" for EVE Online to implement blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, or NFTs anytime soon. EVE Online is an MMORPG that puts…

April 11, 2022 | 02:45 EDT

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Haunted House: 40 Years of Boo-tiful, Survival Horror Simplicity

The survival-horror genre has faced a revival in recent years, with popular releases in franchises such as Resident Evil. Dead by Daylight has transformed asymmetrical multiplayer, and many refer to…

March 14, 2022 | 11:00 EDT

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Eve Online Doctor Who Crossover Happening For Some Reason

Prepare yourself for a clash of two of the most unlikeliest sci-fi universes. An Eve Online Doctor Who crossover is happening later this month, bringing with it new areas of space, new enemies to…

January 4, 2022 | 10:21 EST

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EVE Online PLEX For Good Campaign Raises $135K for COVID-19 Relief

The EVE Online PLEX For Good campaign has raised over $135,000 to support COVID-19 Relief via the WHO's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund and the John Hopkins Center for Health Security. EVE Online …

November 12, 2020 | 03:41 EST

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EVE Online

EVE Online is the popular space-simulation MMORPG where player freedom and choice is only part of the game.  Set more than 21,000 years in the future, humanity, having used up most of Earth's…

November 1, 2020 | 12:40 EST

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Eve Online Update Challenges Players To Rebuild Wartorn Galaxy

A major new Eve Online update is now live. The Phoenix update represents the final "quadrant" of four planned content updates for the game and adds a new ship ability, new in-game events, and…

October 14, 2020 | 10:00 EDT

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Eve Online Stargate Hazard Warnings Teasing Major Update

Stargates across space MMO Eve Online's game world have begun to flicker and experience in-game "issues". Don't worry, though; this isn't a glitch. Rather, it seems to be teasing a major update for…

October 12, 2020 | 11:27 EDT

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EVE Online Space Battle Has Over 6500 Participants

One of the worlds largest space battles is occurring right under our noses right now in EVE Online, with 6,500 participants engaging in combat, making it the most populated space battle in EVE Online…

October 6, 2020 | 03:41 EDT

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EVE Online Project Discovery Lets You Fight COVID-19

CCP has launched the third phase of Project Discovery together with Massively Multiplayer Online Science (MMOS), which is both a citizen science project and mini-game that can be found within EVE…

June 15, 2020 | 10:40 EDT

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Pong Quest

In Pong Quest, players will immerse themselves as a paddle in a new world where they will navigate dungeons that are based on past Atari hits like Asteroids and Centipede. Amusingly, there is an…

April 18, 2020 | 08:09 EDT

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Pong Quest Review

Are there fans of Pong? Atari's breakout hit is the first video game to pierce pop culture, although certainly not the first video game ever made. Its simple interactions wowed everyone, and gaming's…

April 21, 2020 | 09:00 EDT

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Atari Announces Weird New RPG Pong Quest

 Atari and developer Chequered Ink have announced Pong Quest, a humorous new take on classic Pong with an RPG flair.  */ /*-->*/ In Pong Quest, players will immerse themselves as a paddle in a…

March 31, 2020 | 09:42 EDT

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EVE Online Gold Magnate Auction Concludes with 1+ Million PLEX Winning Bid

An EVE Online Gold Magnate auction has concluded with an astonishing bid of 1,001,001 PLEX from none other than YouTuber Scott Manley, and that entire last sentence is going to need a heck of a lot…

January 27, 2020 | 05:30 EST

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CCP Games Announce EVE Online Grief Counseling for New Players Losing First Ships

EVE Online is a tough game. In fact, I wouldn't even call it a game and would instead call it a collection of spreadsheets or something. Still, people seem to enjoy playing it. Now CCP Games is…

September 6, 2019 | 07:02 EDT

EVE Online: Invasion Expansion Announced Featuring Mighty Triglavians
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EVE Online: Invasion Expansion Announced Featuring Mighty Triglavians

CCP Games have just announced the newest expansion to their massive single shard free-to-play spaceship MMO EVE Online. The expansion is called Invasion, and it will arrive on May 28. EVE Online:…

May 4, 2019 | 12:20 EDT

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US Lobbyist Banned from EVE Online Found Innocent

Earlier this month, US lobbyist Brian Schoeneman received a permanent from EVE Online under allegations of in-game corruption. Now, developers CCP have finished reviewing the information and are…

April 27, 2019 | 03:42 EDT

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Wild Guns: Reloaded Review - Refreshing Remake Revenge

If you were just perusing screenshots, you might be fooled into thinking that Wild Guns: Reloaded is just another in an endless string of remasters and HD upgrades, but it's much more than that.…

December 23, 2016 | 11:00 EST

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Wild Guns: Reloaded

A sequel to the classic arcade shooter Wild Guns: Reloaded adds new stages, enemies, characters, weapons, and bosses to the cowboy steampunk shoot-em-up.

December 20, 2016 | 08:30 EST

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Wild Guns Reloaded Releases on PS4 on December 20th

The sequel to the criminally underplayed arcade shoot-em-up Wild Guns will be releasing both a digital and physical copy in North America and Europe on December 20th according to Natsume. Wild Guns…

December 9, 2016 | 10:25 EST

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EVE Online's Free-To-Play Option Coming November 15

For many of us EVE Online is as impenetrable as the nation's tax policies and, in some cases, twice as hard. While the game never broke any sales records, it did manage to acquire a substantial…

November 1, 2016 | 09:20 EDT

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EVE Online is Introducing a Free-To-Play Option

EVE Online, the popular spacefaring MMORPG by Icelandic-based CCP, is going to be implementing a Free-To-Play option, according to a dev blog posted on the game's official website. The dev blog is…

September 1, 2016 | 09:30 EDT