It looks like the group that currently owns the rights to the Atari video game brand is going to make an announcement in the very near future. In fact, it will be made sometime on Tuesday ...

This time around the video is only two years old, but the subject matter is from the early 1980’s. [David Crane], designer of Pitfall for the Atari 2600 gave a talk at the 2011 Game Developer ...

A collaborative research venture of the Rochester Institute of Technology ... Topics covered include: social and cultural contexts of the Atari system and video game culture in the 1970s and 80s; ...

The Atari 2600 My Play Watch will track your daily steps and lets you play Centipede, Pong, Missile Command and Super ...

Video games ... submitted a patent for it on this day in 1947. The game was based on WW2 radar screens, and appears to be similar to the 1980 Atari classic "Missile Command".

The second timeline, The First Console War, features 20 new playable games along with six video segments. This timeline looks at the battle between Atari 2600 and Mattel's Intellivision.

Gaming has evolved so much since the basic arcade machines of the 1970s, with offerings such as Pong, Pacman and Space Invaders. Each generation since then has enjoyed rapid technological ...