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Need for Speed returns as a new Atari Jaguar racing project
The Atari Jaguar never got its own version of Need for Speed. Now, decades later, a…
Atari Jaguar gets a new textured 3D racing game with JagRacer
The Atari Jaguar has always had a complicated relationship with 3D graphics. It could do impressive…
Someone got Linux running on the Atari Jaguar with just 2 MB of RAM
Running Linux on the Atari Jaguar sounds odd at first. It should. This wasn’t a machine…
Atari sharpens European strategy with new president and studio oversight
The company has appointed Andreas Deptolla as President of Atari Europe, a newly created role that…
Duke Nukem on Atari ST: the original DOS shooter finally reaches Atari’s 16-bit computer
Duke Nukem has arrived on Atari ST, and yes, that still feels like a small surprise.…
Snow Bros for Atari Falcon: Toaplan’s platform classic returns to Atari’s most advanced computer
Snow Bros is coming to the Atari Falcon, and that’s a sharper story than it first…
Atari Cosmos: the unreleased holographic game console that never launched
Atari Cosmos remains one of the strangest almost-products in video game history: a handheld and tabletop…
Ultima V for Atari 8-bit: version 0.16 brings the classic RPG closer to completion
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny has long been one of the great missing pieces in the…
Atari Video Music: the 1977 Atari console that turned music into TV visuals
In 1977, Atari released a console that did not play games. That sentence already sounds as…
Cultic complete edition hits consoles next month with survival mode
Retro shooters have spent the last few years proving that old-school design still has plenty of…
Why the Atari Jaguar was called 64-Bit and why that still causes debate
The Atari Jaguar remains one of the most fascinating machines in video game hardware history, not…
GameLine: the forgotten Atari 2600 modem service before Xbox Live
Before online gaming became a weekend habit, a subscription bill and occasionally a test of human…
Atari Mindlink and telepathy: the weird history of Atari’s “mind-control” game
Before motion controls, VR headsets and neural interfaces became part of the gaming conversation, Atari tried…
Command & Conquer fan port brings Westwood’s RTS classic to Atari ST
Command & Conquer on the Atari ST sounds like the sort of sentence that should be…
Zaxxon Arcade for Atari 2600 turns an old console compromise into a retro triumph
Some retro gaming projects feel like curiosities. Others feel like unfinished business. Zaxxon Arcade for the…
Another World on Atari XL/XE: VBXE project pushes the Atari 8-Bit limits
Another World has never been an easy game to translate. Its reputation was built on clean…
Atari Falcon 030 gets an impressive port of Capcom’s Knights of the Round
A new work-in-progress port of Capcom’s Knights of the Round to the Atari Falcon 030 has…
Godzilla’s cult arena brawler is back as Atari prepares a modern remaster
There is a special kind of noise that only a good monster game can make. Not…
Atari moves to Luxembourg after shareholders approve France exit
Atari is preparing to move its legal home from France to Luxembourg, after shareholders approved the…
Inside Raven, the open hardware Atari clone powered by a Motorola 68060
Retro computers usually come back in polite, modern disguises. They return as emulators, FPGA boards, mini…
Atari 800XL revival rumours grow after new trademark filing
In our latest articles, we looked at two important stories in the retro world: Atari CEO…
Atari CEO Wade Rosen wants company to lead retro gaming market
Atari is trying to turn one of gaming’s most famous names into the strongest brand in…
Atari buys Wizardry rights, bringing a legendary RPG series back into focus
Atari bought Wizardry. Not all of it, not every branch of its long and complicated family…
ChatST brings ChatGPT to the Atari ST in a charming retro AI experiment
There is something wonderful about watching an old computer do something it was never meant to…
Command & Conquer is coming to Atari STe in ambitious fan port
Every so often, the retro scene produces a project that sounds like a punchline until you…
The Great Giana Sisters Atari 8-Bit port gets new gameplay preview
There are games that return because they were loved, and there are games that return because…