Atari and Twin Galaxies Reveal The 2026 Atari World Championships!

Atari is launching a World Championship with legendary scorekeepers Twin Galaxies

Atari is returning to its competitive gaming roots with the announcement of the Atari World Championships, a new tournament being developed alongside legendary video game scorekeeper Twin Galaxies. The competition will feature five classic Atari games and begin with an open online qualifying tournament. The best players will then advance to a live, in-person Grand Final, where presumably decades of quietly practising Centipede will finally pay o…

Atari and Twin Galaxies Reveal The 2026 Atari World Championships!

Together, Atari and Twin Galaxies announced that they moved a competitive gaming media project into development: The 2026 World Championships. The 2026 Atari World Championships are among us, and the event will feature five immediately recognizable titles from the company’s back catalogue. The games kick off with an open online play-in tournament that culminates in a live, in-person Grand Finals showdown. So, the stakes are pretty high for the 2…

Atari signs movie deal with Universal spanning 10 classic video game properties

The gold rush of intellectual property acquisition in Hollywood continues, as now Universal has struck a deal with Atari to secure the rights to turn 10 iconic video games into movies. As per Deadline, the deal in question relates to being able to turn 10 iconic arcade games into feature length flicks, with one project seemingly already underway as both Matt Reilly and Carl Hampe have been attached to write a screenplay, while Entertainment 360…

Universal lands movie rights to 10 classic Atari games, including Asteroids, Missile Command, Pong, and Centipede

Universal Pictures is betting big on classic video game franchises. According to Deadline, the studio has struck a deal with Atari to develop movies based on 10 of the company’s most iconic games, with Asteroids, Missile Command, Pong, Centipede, Adventure, and more included in the agreement. The partnership with Atari and Entertainment 360 is designed to turn the publisher’s legendary library into a slate of large-scale action-adventure films. …

Atari signs 10-title film deal with Universal

Atari has signed a deal with Universal Pictures to develop 10 of its game IPs into feature films.