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Atari VCS Home Gaming and Entertainment System Launches at Retail in North America
Iconic entertainment brand Atari® is thrilled to announce that today it returns to the living room with its first new home gaming entertainment device in 40 years: the Atari VCS™! Following positive reception from Atari VCS early adopters, online ordering is open today to consumers for the all-new Atari VCS PC/console hybrid gaming system and its accessories at Best Buy, GameStop, Micro Center, and the official Atari…
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Atari VCS Home Gaming and Entertainment System Retail Debut Date Announced
Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — today announced that the all-new Atari VCS™ PC/console hybrid gaming system and its accessories will be available for purchase online starting on June 15, 2021, via Best Buy, GameStop, Micro Center, and the official Atari VCS website. Each retailer will offer unique launch-day promotions and limited-time incentives.…
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Atari(R) Partners with Hello There Games and Chain Games to Bring Rhythm-Action Game Beat Legend: AVICII to the Blockchain-Based Esports Platform
Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and entertainment producers — today announced a new agreement with gaming ecosystem Chain Games and award-winning Swedish game studio Hello There Games to bring the hit mobile rhythm-action game Beat Legend: AVICII™ to the blockchain-based Chain Games Esports platform. Beat Legend: AVICII will add competitive online Player-versus-Player (PvP) gameplay suited…
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Atari’s Yars’ Revenge Returns to the Modern Age in Antstream Arcade’s Online Tournament Starting March 17
Today, one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and entertainment producers, Atari®, and the world’s first and largest retro game subscription service, Antstream Arcade, announced a new online streaming tournament for the Atari® 2600 classic arcade shooter, Yars’ Revenge®. To celebrate the upcoming spring launch of the all-new Atari VCS PC/console hybrid, the now free-to-play Antstream Arcade platform will host a 10-day Yars’ Revenge leaderboard tournament…
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Boulder Dash® Deluxe™ Launches First on Atari VCS™
NEW YORK, NY (February 10, 2021) – Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — in collaboration with leading producer and publisher of casual and retro games BBG Entertainment GmbH, today announced the launch of Boulder Dash® Deluxe™ for the all-new Atari VCS™ PC/console hybrid. Built as a reincarnation of the classic Boulder Dash® from 1984, Boulder Dash Deluxe launches first on…
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Atari® Partners with Aardman® to Bring Popular Shaun the Sheep and Friends to Hit Mobile Game RollerCoaster Tycoon® Touch™
Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — announced today the launch of its partnership with Aardman®, the multi-award-winning and independent studio best known for its stop-motion clay animation techniques, to bring the eccentric cast of the internationally loved children’s television series Shaun the Sheep to Atari’s popular theme park management series in RollerCoaster Tycoon® Touch™ for mobile devices. …
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Atari Hardware Design Partner Surfaceink Details Development of New Atari VCS™ Video Computer System
leading Silicon Valley consumer electronic product design and development studio Surfaceink announced this week its role in the development of Atari’s all-new Atari VCS™ Video Computer System. Helping bring the new PC/console hybrid system to fruition, Surfaceink assisted Atari on the engineering and design of the Atari VCS — as well as integration with a new set of wireless controllers — from the…
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Atari Announces Google Chrome as Atari VCS Built-In Browser to Enable Streaming Services, Web Browsing, and Web-based Productivity
NEW YORK, NY (December 16, 2020) – Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — today announced that the all-new Atari VCS™ PC/console hybrid features Google Chrome for streaming services, browsing, and browser-based applications, including Google Workspace. The addition of Chrome allows these services to be easily accessed within the Atari VCS’s console-like environment, while providing the security…
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New Cat-Tastic Puzzle-Platformer Neko Ghost, Jump! to Launch on the Atari VCS
NEW YORK, NY (November 19, 2020) – Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — today announced that indie game Neko Ghost, Jump! will come to the Atari VCS platform as part of the company’s partnership with Game Jolt. Under the previously announced partnership, a curated list of indie games that incubated or built a community on the Game…
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Atari Unveils Atari VCS Vault of 100 Games Optimized for the New Wireless Classic Joystick
NEW YORK, NY (November 12, 2020) – Atari® — one of the world’s most iconic consumer brands and interactive entertainment producers — today announced its new Atari VCS Vault and Atari VCS Vault Vol. 2. The new Atari VCS Vault of 100 classic games will launch exclusively as a free download on every Atari VCS™ PC/console hybrid gaming and entertainment system. Atari VCS Vault Vol. 2 will be available as…
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