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Atari Not Exhibiting at E3

It seems that publisher and distributor Atari will not be exhibiting its videogames at the E3 trade show, which is set to take place between June 2 and 4 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.A spokesperson for Atari has talked to Joystiq and apparently said that “other selling and marketing initiatives” a...

15 May 2009
02:30 GMT

Infogrames Launches New Division

Infogrames, the parent company of Atari, is forming a new distribution division, which is to be called Distribution Partners for now, and has named Jackie Fromion, a veteran of the videogames industry who worked within Electronic Arts, as the head of the new entity.Jackie Fromion headed the European operations of Yop...

23 December 2008
03:59 GMT

Infogrames Turns Atari Around

Infogrames, the France-based publisher that owns the Atari brand, is announcing that its revenue grew in the first half of 2008 by more than 44%, which seems to indicate that the restructuring of the US activities of the company is working. The company is still bleeding money, but losses have narrowed as re...

18 November 2008
05:10 GMT

Alone in the Dark to Rescue Infogrames

Infogrames is announcing "good" financial results throughout the entire duration of last year. The "good" part should be taken with a bit of context, though. Before that, the company was in dire financial straits, with some being positive that a bankruptcy filing was actually in the works. So, the "good" results actu...

18 June 2008
02:38 GMT

Sony Gets New Head of Worldwide Studios

Sony Computer Entertainment International has officially announced that Shuhei Yoshida is the person who is taking over as president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, known as SCE WWS, a position that was left vacated as Phil Harrison departed from Sony.Until now, Shuhei Yoshida has occupied the posit...

19 May 2008
03:11 GMT

Infogrames Buys Atari

As one takeover saga seems close to ending in failure (and we mean that Electronic Arts is unlikely to get a controlling share in Take Two after the very successful release of GTA IV), another one has ended in success. Infogrames, based in France, has managed to acquire all outstanding stock of Atari Inc., the Americ...

7 May 2008
14:06 GMT

Infogrames Acknowledges Move on SCi

Infogrames keeps on making the headlines, only months after David Gardner, ex-Electronic Arts, and Phil Harisson, ex-Sony, were put in charge of the company. Even as an offer to acquire all outstanding stock of American Atari, Inc. is still pending, the France-based company confirmed that it was behind an offer made ...

30 April 2008
14:26 GMT

Infogrames to Become Atari?

Atari and Infogrames are locked in a very complex relationship with an offer for all outstanding shares of Atari by Infogrames going on at the same time as the North American company is assaulted by financial problems which might force it out of the NASDAQ. But for David Gardner, now the Chief Executive Officer at In...

14 April 2008
19:21 GMT

Alone in the Dark Will Make Infogrames Stop Bleeding Money

David Gardner, who was recently appointed to the top position at Infogrames, the French based company that now own most of the Atari intellectual property and name, has recently come clean on his expectations regarding the upcoming title Alone in the Dark. He said: "We want to stop losing money ... This management�...

11 April 2008
14:06 GMT

Atari Gets New CEO

Atari Inc., the American company owned partly by Infogrames, has been thrust in the spotlight by recent events. After it has recently failed to reach some of the conditions related to its NASDAQ listing, it has been threatened with delisting from the stock exchange. It seems that part of the company's response i...

1 April 2008
14:16 GMT

Atari Inc. in New Trouble

There are some game companies that never seem to get a break when they need it, former industry icons that have fallen from their top position and are slowly trying to pick up the pieces and create something new from the glory of old.Atari is such a company. After the arcade success it has enjoyed between 1980 and ro...

27 March 2008
19:06 GMT

Atari Gets Two for the Money

Recently departed from Sony, Phil Harrison certainly took a real short vacation. Today, the surprise announcement appeared that he is the new president of Infogrames, and that he will be working alongside new CEO David Gardner to revive the Atari's fortunes. Gardner himself is an interesting move, coming from an...

4 March 2008
05:13 GMT

Atari Is Moving On-line

The new CEO of

4 March 2008
03:59 GMT

Atari Facing Bankruptcy, Might Lose Dragon Ball Z License

Atari, one of the most famous game developers from the eighties is now facing financial collapse, as shown in its quarterly report. Claims like "substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern" have surfaced expressing the Atari representative's impression on the current situation of the comp...

8 November 2007
03:51 GMT


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