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Pong is the granddaddy of all modern video games and its potential to stay modern is clear from the attached video, which shows the game being played on a 29-story-high office building.
The effort to make the idea a reality was driven by Dr. Frank Lee, a computer science professor at Drexel and the co-founder of its... |
23 April 2013
08:53 GMT |
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Atari U.S., one of the most iconic video game companies and the owner of hit classics like Pong, Asteroids, or the Tycoon franchises, has just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in order to emerge as a new entity separated from its current owner – Atari S.A., a company formerly known as Infogrames.
Atari may have... |
21 January 2013
05:20 GMT |
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Nolan Bushnell, the creator of Pong and the founder of Atari, believes that the Nintendo Wii U won’t be successful despite its innovative features and that it practically ends the era of console gaming dominance, as mobile platforms will get more and more people to try them out.
Nintendo released the Wii U ear... |
26 November 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Pong, which is widely believed to be the first commercial video game project, will turn 40 years old on November 29 and, in order to celebrate, the team that owns the intellectual property at publisher Atari has taken part in the City Lights festival in Kansas City.
The company has created a giant version of the ten... |
20 November 2012
21:31 GMT |
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Microsoft announced in late August that it has teamed up with Atari to allow users to play classic Atari games right in their browser, with no other software tweaks.
The company however calls for gamers to play the games at a one-off event “with live DJ sets at the pop-up Atari Arcade in Shoreditch.”
Th... |
5 October 2012
03:48 GMT |
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Browsers may still be used mostly to check Facebook and watch YouTube videos, but they're capable of so much more. With a big focus on performance and technologies such as HTML5, WebGL and others making use of the newfound speed in browsers, the limit is fast becoming developers' imagination.
One popular w... |
8 September 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Speaking to Eurogamer, Nolan Bushnell, who is the founder of Atari, said that, “The best game that I ever played at Atari was the game of putting my competitors out of business. I really turned out to be pretty good at that.”
He added, “You know, Atari didn’t ship the most Pong games. We were... |
7 August 2012
03:58 GMT |
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Pong Research Corporation has released “the world’s most advanced iPad case,” which protects your tablet computer, boosts its 3G/4G and Wi-Fi reception, and reduces the user's exposure to Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR), a Class 2B carcinogen.
Developed by a team of PhD scientists trained at M... |
5 June 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Ralph Baer, who is the main creative force behind the creation of the Magnavox Oddysey, has said that he regrets the direction that the entertainment medium he created has been following in the past few years.Speaking to The Salt Lake Tribute the developer, who is now 89 years old, has stated, “I think it'... |
8 November 2011
10:08 GMT |
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A new computer chip that is being developed by technology giant IBM allows a computer to actually learn the game of Pong and the strategies that lead to victory and might have a big impact on the gaming world in the long run.
The chip is called Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics or SyNAP... |
22 August 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Atari has a free iOS application for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad owners called Atari's Greatest Hits, which comes with one of the world’s first arcade games (PONG) and, more recently, the option to buy cheap game packs from within the app.
“Atari’s Greatest Hits brings the best of retro gami... |
7 April 2011
07:55 GMT |
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Pong Research has introduced the Pong iPhone Case, a protective sleeve that reduces users’ exposure to radiation from the phone’s antenna, according to the company. Pong Research is a new, research-driven company that develops technologies to improve environmental health. The company notes that concerns ... |
18 September 2009
10:05 GMT |
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As video gaming gets bigger as an industry, more and more people point out that it’s a quite a young one, with the first video games coming in the early years of the 1970's. But even if it’s only roughly 40 years old, gaming has a lot to show, both in terms of quantity and of quality, so it's no... |
3 October 2008
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As the trend of creating movies based on games and games based on movies is becoming an integral part of both the movie and the videogame business, some people are just about ready to take it all to the next level.With a Prince of Persia movie starring Jake Gyllehall, and with a BioShock feature directed by Gore Verb... |
11 June 2008
15:56 GMT |
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The 2007 Leipzig Games Convention is not all trailers, demos and multiplayer experiences, as there are more original events to attend. For example, the "Telespiele 1972-2007" exhibition featured some of the most influential games of all times. By influential, I don't mean the God of War-style standard, followed ... |
23 August 2007
05:47 GMT |
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