I was too busy playing the incredible DUSK and Smash Bros. Ultimate this weekend to notice the news, but Atari and Nightdive Studios will be bringing a remastered version of '90s classic Blood to digital storefronts. Not much is known about...

Arcade1Up's replica 3/4th scale arcade cabinets are on sale at Walmart this Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend. You can currently take $50 off most machines offered by Arcade1Up, with free 2-day shipping included. Originally listed at $3...

Atari has announced that the upcoming Switch adaptation of the RollerCoaster Tycoon series will be heading to European store shelves next month via Bigben Interactive. atGames will be publishing the title for US gamers in Q1 2019. Despite h...

In a discussion yesterday about elementary school kids who use their 3DS as their primary music player, I got swept up in a gale of nostalgia. For many of those kids that was their first system: a multifaceted device that could really, do a...

THQ Nordic hasn't stopped making moves. The company recently picked up the rights to Kingdoms of Amalur and my dear sweet TimeSplitters. Today, it's adding two more IPs to its list: the underutilized survival horror series Alone in the Dark...

I like to cling onto my consoles for dear life (as shown by my recent PS3 buying guide). I'm a little wary of anything new, I like what I know, and I'm incredibly tight-fisted when it comes to shelling out for new tech; this all means I'd m...

Pre-orders have opened for a line of 3/4 scale arcade cabinets from Arcade1Up featuring games like Centipede, Rampage, Ghosts N' Goblins, and Super Street Fighter II Turbo. The machines are a little under four feet tall, use a 17" LCD scree...

Yesterday, Atari Inc. announced that pre-sales were open for their new hardware, the Atari VCS, with the "retro-styled" new box pulling in an impressive opening volley of numbers.Within the first couple of hours, the VCS already had around ...

Legendary games giant Atari Inc. have announced that their new upcoming console, the Atari VCS, is now available for pre-sale on their official Indiegogo site, where the company amassed over $700,000 to fund the project.The two, previously ...

Samuel "Ted" Dabney, electronics engineer and co-founder of legendary studio Atari, passed away this weekend at the age of 81. The sad news was broken by friend and gaming historian Leonard Herman.Dabney, who was born in San Francisco in 19...

You don't know what you've got till it's gone, and this week our dear old friend RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 is missing. The theme park management sim is unexpectedly no longer available for purchase on PC. The game still has a landing page on S...

The announcement of the Atari VCS was pretty exciting. Here was a seemingly dead company coming back from the grave to re-release its most successful console in 2018. While no one knew if this was simply a modern take on classic hardware, t...

From being at the forefront of the industry, to publishing games on other platforms, and even making speaker hats -- Atari has been places. But it seems they're going back to basics and taking another stab at the hardware market, with the n...

Along with loving video games, I'm also a huge fan of learning the history behind the industry. When I stumbled upon "The Gaming Historian" on YouTube in 2016, I had basically hit the jackpot. I've previously linked to his video on the form...

Atari Game Partners, a subsidiary of Atari, are a group assigned to its parent's back catalogue of IPs, responsible for the relaunch or re-release of Atari brands past. AGP are currently looking to bring a new Rollercoaster Tycoon title to ...

Maybe you've always wanted an arcade cabinet but you don't quite have the budget or room to spare. Or, and bear with me here, because this is about to get real dumb real fast, maybe you'd like to get really good at playing with one hand but...

If you had asked me what an Atari Jaguar was back in the mid-'90s, a roughly eight-year-old Kevin Mersereau would have probably assumed it was a sports car or maybe even an exotic animal of some sort. There is absolutely no chance whatsoeve...

While I'm over here waiting for my dear beloved Zoo Tycoon to find its way to Steam, here's an interesting one: RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic, a remaster of the first two games, is coming to the platform tomorrow. It was previously available...

As the drip-feed of information continues about Atari's mysterious console, Ataribox, new details gleaned from an Atari newsletter gives us a rough price window for the machine, scheduled for release next year.According to the email, the At...

Screens and gameplay footage has been released for the upcoming Atari game Tempest 4000, brought back to life, once again, by series overlord Jeff Minter.The new game, which releases later this year, brings the neon lights, geometric graphi...

Atari have filed suit against food-makers Nestle over a 2016 KitKat commercial that featured a concept similar to the 1976 arcade classic Breakout.The UK-based advertisement (which itself is titled "Breakout") features a group of people at ...

The very first thing I posted on Destructoid as a staff writer was a love letter to Jeff Minter, the creator of Tempest 2000 for the Atari Jaguar, the “visualizer” you see on many consoles and PCs when you put a music CD in, and...

Here's a wild one: Atari has also partnered with Audiowear to create a baseball-styled cap with built-in speakers, which will also have a limited-edition release with BladeRunner 2049. You read that right! The 1970's old gal even opened an ...

Atari has been in the news a lot lately, whether it be their new console, presence in the Blade Runner sequel, or not at all incredibly stupid speaker hats. This time the story is less about Atari's new brand and more about the old one. Red...

In an email newsletter sent out to fans, Atari have given the first glimpse at it's mysterious upcoming console; the 'Ataribox' which is clearly hearkening back to the company's first foray into home-gaming with the wood-panelled Atari 2600...