Brüggen, a small town in Germany, sometime in the mid 1980s. Two teenagers are huddled around a tiny TV taking turns playing Pitfall II: Lost Caverns on the most popular home computer of the era, the ...

The ill-fated Jag featured a Motorola 68000 CPU, augmented by Tom & Jerry co-processors, with 2MB RAM, and up to 6MB ROM.

Before the NES and even before Pong, the Magnavox Odyssey braved the frontier as the first home video game console. Here's ...

While the original name of what much of the world knows as the NES was the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom for short, it ...

With over 262,000 CPU cores and over 20 petaflops of peak performance, Athena will help lower operational costs.

More than a decade ago, there was a major breakthrough in artificial intelligence in the realm of video games. In 2014, ...

In the ancient annals of video game history, there are few immortal legends: Allan Alcorn, begetter of “Pong”; Nolan Bushnell ...

Atari has acquired Crossy Road developer Hipster Whale for over $29 million, with a total potential cost of nearly $40 million. The deal includes an initial payment of $29.3 million, comprising $26 ...

Atari is acquiring Crossy Road developer Hipster Whale in a deal worth up to $39.3m. Crossy Road has surpassed 340m downloads since its debut. Matt Hall is expected to take a leadership role within ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

Atari has acquired the rights to the first five Wizardry games, the company announced. The acquired titles include Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (1981), Wizardry II: The Knight of ...

The Atari 2600 will turn 50 next year, and with a massive anniversary on the horizon, just how much can you get for your old console? Well, with the current iteration of Atari revitalizing itself and ...