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It might have not done a great job of keeping quiet on the news , but Atari has today at a press gathering in London officially confirmed that its PC RPG hit The Witcher is heading to consoles. Both Xbox 360 and PS3 will be targeted, and Atari is promising …

Atari is to publish a brand new music title on the Wii being developed by cult Japanese studio Q Entertainment. Little is known of the game, which is currently being referred to as ‘QJ’ – but with Tetsuya Mizuguchi at the helm (who was the man behind cult hits such …

Resurgent publishing force Atari has made a sack full of announcements at a UK press gathering today, chief of which is the predicted release date for its highly anticipated Ghostbusters title. Atari has confirmed that its upcoming retro licence, which it snapped up from former rights holder Vivendi last month, …

A designer on Atari’s cult PC RPG The Witcher has spoken openly about developer CD Projekt’s intentions to bring the game to Xbox 360 and PS3. A six minute video on GameTrailers claims that the new title will be called The Witcher: Rise of the Wolf, and will boast several …

Atari is backing DS release What’s Cooking? with Jamie Oliver with a TV ad campaign, set to hit TV screens in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Creative agency Rushmore put the 20” ad together, which will go on air to promote the title and hammer home the message that …

Atari’s parent company Infrogrames has announced an increase of net revenue of 44.5 per cent for its fiscal first half 2009-2009 ending September 30th. Despite falling 7.5 per cent, losses still totalled €85.67 million, though they were outweighed by a total net revenue for the period of €131.8 million, which …

Atari has announced that it will distribute boxed versions of Icelandic developer CCP’s popular MMO EVE Online. The game will be available in retail outlets in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific regions from March 2009. In addition, Atari will provide trade marketing services to augment CCP’s consumer marketing initiatives …

Atari has confirmed the capture of Ghostbusters: The Video Game, a week after securing the publishing rights to The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena. Hollywood actor Dan Aykroyd reported that Atari would publish Ghostbusters last month, and the game will arrive next year on PC, PS3, PS2, DS, Wii and …

Leading consumer rights outfit Which? has claimed that Atari and law firm Davenport Lyons are wrongly accusing people of file-sharing titles, even when no evidence of the activity exists. The BBC reports that a case was recently dropped against a Scottish couple accused of sharing PC title Race07, despite the …

The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena has become the latest title to be snapped up after suffering at the hands of the Activision-Blizzard merger – and it’s Atari once again doing the honours . Having allegedly already snapped up the rights to publish Ghostbusters next year, Atari has now acquired …