Dive into the most important video game of all time in a new book from Indiana University professor Raiford Guins. Why it ...

Atari is distancing itself from the PONG cryptocurrency, accusing the token of using its trademarked property without permission. Atari is distancing itself from a cryptocurrency whose name could ...

While the video game industry is now larger than the movie and music businesses combined, it began with a simple game created as a training project. Al Alcorn, Atari’s first engineer and the inventor ...

Every industry has its defining moment, one spark that ignites an entire cultural movement. In gaming, that spark wasn’t a blockbuster console launch or a cinematic open-world epic, but something far ...

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Landmark historical relics don't usually slip past at public auction unnoticed, but as we demonstrated in this recent article, it does happen. Now three priceless relics from gaming antiquity are ...

by Tim Sweezy — Friday, March 15, 2024, 10:42 AM EDT An incredibly rare prototype of the Atari Cosmos from the collection of Pong creator Allan Alcorn is up for auction. Also up for auction is a ...

As promised, organisers behind Atari's Pong Indie Developer Challenge have revealed the 20 indie developers advancing past the first round. The competition, which kicked off back in March, challenges ...

Atari has revealed the winners of its Pong Indie Developer Challenge, handing first place and a $50,000 cash prize to Texan studio zGames. MadRuse Games took second place in the contest, which was ...

Al Alcorn, the Atari pioneer and creator of the first commercially successful video game, Pong, has launched a new Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a new mobile game called ...