Retro lodging: Atari gaming hotels coming to eight U.S. cities, including Seattle and San Francisco Atari — yes, that Atari — is getting into the hotel business. The video game pioneer is putting its name… Read More
GeekWire Calendar Picks: The women of Atari, Minecraft extravaganza, and an ethical tech summit — Atari Women, a University of Washington research project, is looking to give more limelight to the women who were… Read More
Movie Review: ‘Atari: Game Over’ digs up a great story in a mass grave of game cartridges “To me, under that landfill is actually the burial site of an entire industry, because what affected Atari at the… Read More
First look at ‘Atari: Game Over,’ a Microsoft-funded documentary about the worst video game of all time At San Diego Comic-Con, Microsoft released the first trailer for “Atari: Game Over,” a documentary about the rise and fall… Read More
Microsoft unearths mass grave of Atari ‘ET’ game cartridges, buried in 1983 Turns out Atari did, indeed, bury a giant cache of unsold “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” video-game cartridges in a New Mexico landfill more… Read More
Xbox sets Atari ‘ET’ video-game excavation for April 26, public welcome If you live in New Mexico and want to see a bunch of old Atari games dug out of the… Read More
Atari moves into social casino gaming with FlowPlay partnership Atari Inc. is entering the fast-growing social casino gaming arena. In its first partnership since cutting a deal to emerge out… Read More
Xbox film crew’s excavation of Atari ‘ET’ graveyard gets tangled in red tape A plan to excavate a suspected mass burial of Atari ET video-game cartridges for a Microsoft Xbox documentary has been… Read More
Blast from the past: Play hundreds of games from classic consoles in your browser If you miss the good ‘ol days playing games like Donkey Kong and Missile Command on classic old-school consoles, there’s… Read More
Xbox original documentary will uncover mystery of legendary Atari video-game burial It’s fitting that the first documentary slated for Microsoft’s Xbox is about video games. But it sounds like a great… Read More
A gamer’s dream: ‘The Art of Video Games’ exhibit debuts Friday at the EMP (PHOTOS) If you’ve ever wanted to jump in a time machine and relive the 40-year history of video games, well, Seattle’s… Read More
Here’s your chance to win a badass custom Xbox 360 that doubles as an Atari 2600 This just might be the coolest-looking Xbox 360 out there. To help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the arcade classic Pong —… Read More
Nerd Notes: Woz seems lonely, YouTube seems bored and Apple doesn’t seem to like horses Woz says he’d mull return to Apple if asked — which he hasn’t been. Geek Zodiac. Too bad geeks don’t… Read More
