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 ...

Microsoft Copilot has lost a game of chess to an Atari 2600. The loss follows ChatGPT's similar loss in Atari’s Video Chess. The AIs repeatedly lost track of the board state, demonstrating a key ...

The Atari 2600 may not be the very first video game home console, but it was certainly the first one to cut through to ...

Atari just announced preorders for a physical cartridge for the company’s once-ubiquitous 2600 console. You read that right. A gaming console that counts 1982 as its most successful year is releasing ...

The new 7800+ console is more compact than the original, features HDMI connectivity, and can play both Atari 2600 and 7800 game cartridges. Expect it to ship this winter. Atari is resurrecting a ...

Just when we thought gaming handhelds were starting to all look the same, MyArcade gave us a retro twist for the fast-growing market. During CES 2024, MyArcade teased its Atari Gamestation Portable ...

An Atari 2600 version of Tarzan from the early 1980s, which had once been thought lost forever, was recently rediscovered and made available to play online. A collector known as Rob “AtariSpot” was ...

Utterly obsessed with gaming, anime, and manga for the past 25 years, Carley attended Florida State University, graduating with a degree in Japanese in 2012. A professional Japanese/English translator ...

If, for some reason, you've ever wanted to relive the history of Atari in game show form, I have some good news. Atari has announced (as first reported by Deadline) that's making a celebrity game show ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Decades ago, Atari games were some of the first titles to leap from arcades to home consoles. Now, a small selection of Atari's re-imagined classics ...

It’s not often that I get to write about a console that’s as old as I am, but here we are. Atari has just announced a renewed version of its 7800 home console from 1986. Dubbed the 7800 Plus, the new ...