Even though I was a child of the ’90s who grew up with a Sega Genesis, my favorite console was my mother’s hand-me-down Atari 2600. It was the one console I kept hooked up to the TV in my bedroom, ...

Every week at least a couple of metroidvanias release on Steam, and most remain obscure. Adventure of Samsara, which released on September 4, was more fated to obscurity than most, despite being ...

Blow the dust off your old Atari 2600 console. Apparently, there are still new games coming out for it. The Atari 2600 first arrived in homes in 1977 and is nearly 50 years old, ceasing production in ...

In the corner of a crowded convention hall filled with the latest game-building technology, Louis Castle happened upon an old Apple II with a black-and-white monitor, running a game off a floppy disk.

The Atari 2600 Plus is a shrunken version of the 2600 that works with both 2600 and 7800 cartridges, and it’s coming in November. The Atari 2600 Plus is a shrunken version of the 2600 that works with ...

The Atari 7800 Plus will officially hit shelves later in 2024. The Atari 7800 Plus will officially hit shelves later in 2024. is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet ...

Atari's has a tumultuous 30 years. After its integral role in the birth of video games, it was involved in the crash, was split up, sold, merged, acquired again, transformed, demolished and ...

This month, I bought a retro Atari gaming console for $39.99 at a Bed Bath & Beyond in suburban New Jersey. It was a few feet from a set of Calphalon pots and pans and a display of oven mitts 11 rows ...

When the Atari 2600 came out in 1977, it revolutionized gaming by popularizing the use of game cartridges and microprocessor-based hardware. No longer were all of a console’s games built into the ...

E.T. was a hit in the 80s, not so for the video game based on the film. It was rumored Atari dumped truckloads of unused game cartridges in a landfill. Three decades later, the games were found.

The crowdfunding campaign for Atari‘s mysterious new AtariBox console is set to start any day now, with the hopes that fans will contribute to the eventual comeback of this once mighty gaming titan.