It seems like the opportunity of a lifetime — a game development competition where indies get the chance to make a new Pong game for Atari. But a closer look at Atari’s Pong Indie Developer Challenge reveals it might not be the opportunity that everyone wants.
In honour of Pong‘s 40th anniversary, publisher Atari is now taking entries for what it calls the “Pong Indie Developer Challenge,” it said today. For a shot at winning $US100,000 and a publishing agreement with Atari, you can dream up your own version of Pong and draw up “at the very least” a design document.
It might not be the video game-branded cereal Lisa Foiles craves, but the Atari-classic branded General Mills cereal boxes popping up at Target stores across the US might have you bringing the box back to the breakfast table again.
EA founder Trip Hawkins and Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell both lend their stories to Gamers At Work, a new book that features interviews and anecdotes from a whole bunch of well-known game designers and developers.
After a couple years of teasing screenshots and videos, En Masse Entertainment is finally ready to unleash its massively multiplayer online action role-playing game Tera on a lovely day in May.
If you can steel yourself for a post-modern jumble of space exploration and robotic sing-song, Upside Down Cake’s “Star Strike” offers a neat walk through Atari antiquity. Some of these games certainly deserve the homage.
Vector Tanks was around for at least three years on the iTunes App Store and looked a lot like Battlezone the whole time. It isn’t there anymore. Atari recently sent legal papers over to the game’s developer, Black Powder Media, which now warns other indie developers that “anything that has even a passing resemblance to an Atari classic” can expect to see a copyright infringement claim.
Alamagordo, New Mexico. 50 miles southeast of Roswell, the most famous UFO site in the nation. Also the scene of the most infamous landfill in video game history.
