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One of the best and oddest stories to come out of the pre-video game crash era is the tale of Atari's E.T. The title was notoriously bad, and Atari decided to bury approximately five million units in the New Mexico desert. The story, which many believe to be urban legend, is true. According to the... More

Interested to know more about the history of the video game industry, but only want to devote about a minute of your day to it? You're in luck. We just wish school was this easy. Nolan Bushnell helped kick off the video game industry by founding Atari and helping inspire Pong. Check out this short... More

As the story goes, E.T. for the Atari was such a huge failure, that all unsold and returned cartridges were buried in the desert. In this photo op, Atari's founder Nolan Bushnell pretends to search for the abandoned cartridges in the desert. The photo showed up on Video Game Live's Facebook page... More

Developer CD Projekt Red has announced that its Witcher series has sold more than 5 million copies worldwide since the series debuted in 2007. CD Projekt CEO Adam Kiciński credits a significant amount of those sales on the Xbox 360 release of the Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition. As a little... More

Atari Inc. has announced that it has filed for Chapter 11 protection as the company attempts to move away from its parent company, France's Atari S.A. As part of the filing, Atari revealed that it is considering the option of selling off assets including the iconic logo and a variety of classic franchises... More

Atari's Primal Rage was one of many "me too!" fighting games that followed the success of Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat. The 1994 arcade game featured dinosaurs battling other prehistoric beasts, including a giant yeti who had a thing for peeing on his opponents. A sequel was in the... More

Today is Pong's 40th Anniversary. Atari is celebrating it's most historic title with a new mobile game called Pong World and a contest for a Atari 2600-themed Xbox 360. Pong World just released, and it looks like a fun little update to the arcade classic. And it's free! Check out the trailer... More

Angry Video Game Nerd, the popular Internet nerd personality who gets angry and plays video games, is making his own movie and he's got a trailer to prove it. If you're familiar with the Angry Video Game Nerd, then I shouldn't have to warn you that the trailer has some salty language in it... More

During the Classic Gaming Expo in Las Vegas, we got a chance to interview David Crane, co-founder of Activision and creator of Pitfall. Crane had an interesting take on casual games, which many consider to be a fad. During our interview, we asked Crane if he planned on bringing his current JungleVenture... More

A lot of people know that actor Jack Black is a gamer. The comedian played musician Eddie Riggs in Double Fine's 2009 release Brütal Legend but, did you know that Black once starred in an Atari Pitfall commercial back in 1982? Recognize this precocious 13-year-old? There is a new sort-of Pitfall... More

In celebration of Atari's 40 years, it has put together a video and an infographic outlining the company's history. You can see the video below, and you can see the infographic by clicking the image above or by clicking here . You can also check out Atari's Facebook page to enter into the... More

We've asked you to tell us about your mothers and your fathers , but now we want to know about you. How did you get into gaming? Did you enviously watch your best friend unwrap a Super Nintendo on her birthday? Did you play Crystal Castles in a hip, happenin' arcade? Did you see Tron on the big... More

The Alone in the Dark series has fallen into disfavor some time between the 1992 original and 2008's mature reboot, but there's still hope for remembering why the series was once beloved. Joystiq reports that original Alone in the Dark designer Frédérick Raynal, speaking at the... More

Free-to-play title Dungeons & Dragons Online is getting an expansion this summer entitled Menace of the Underdark. The expansion (coming June 25) raises the level cap to 25, features three Forgotten Realms adventure packs (The King's Forest, The Demonweb, and The Underdark), and introduces the... More

Last week, we reported on how Seamus Blackley, one of the architects of Microsoft's original Xbox was founding a mobile game studio with a group of Atari arcade veterans. Now Blackley has commented on how the future of games may look a lot like its history. Given THQ’s gradually sinking stock... More

Seamus Blackley was one of the architects of Microsoft's original Xbox. Now, he's set his sights on the mobile market, partnering with some revered game designers from the Atari's golden age. In an exclusive interview with Venturebeat , Blackley posits that the new frontier of gaming is actually... More

Fighting piracy is an ongoing battle for companies like Poland's CD Projekt, developer of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, which believes that its latest game has been hit hard. In an interview with PC Gamer , CD Projekt CEO and co-founder Marcin Iwiński estimated that more than 4.5 million copies... More

Atari has announced that its D&D: Heroes of Neverwinter game is now in open beta. The Facebook game is free to play, though there are plenty of opportunities for players to get looted. The game, which can be played here , takes some of the familiar places and character archetypes from Dungeons &... More

Atari founder and current company board member Nolan Bushnell recently proposed his cloud-computing solution for "disastrous" public high schools. Bushnell revealed his Speed to Learn program at Cloud Gaming Conference USA. "I've been working on an education project for about 10 years... More

In an era where most publishers are embracing their communities, Atari lawyers are inexplicably targeting non-commercial retro fan sites for shutdown. The Atari User blog reports that several sites created by Atari enthusiasts have received letters from the company demanding that they shut their sites... More