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This 8-Bit Atari Homage Takes The ‘Cake’

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.


September 7, 2011
In Real Life

Playing A Video Game On The Side Of A Building Looks Awesome

This impromptu little piece of street performance involves a large building, Kinect, the cover of darkness, a copy of classic arcade game Breakout and some very interested bystanders.


May 17, 2011
In Real Life

4.5kg Of Gummy Bears Seems Fun

YouTube user blankchip18 used 4.5kg of Gummy Bears to make a stop motion tribute to Tetris, Breakout, Pac-Man and more.


April 18, 2011
In Real Life

It’s Like Breakout Had A Sexy Baby Who Loved Zelda

Venerable arcade classic Breakout was a pretty simple game. You knock blocks away with a ball. Wizorb is kind of like Breakout, only it drops the game into a 16-bit fantasy landscape and adds in some adventuring. Oh, and it also features the work of Paul Robertson.


July 29, 2010
News

Sony Tech Can Show 3D Games Without A TV Screen

Meet Sony’s RayModeler, an autostereoscopic platform that can display 3D content not just without the need for glasses, but without the need for a traditional TV screen.


March 27, 2009
News

Sex-Rated Xbox Community Game Not All That Sexy

Sex-rated Xbox 360 community game Break One Out is a serviceable Breakout clone that rewards you with censored pictures of a naked woman. Video included.


September 19, 2008
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Atari Going After iPhone Breakout Clones

Atari has fired off some stern letters to iPhone games developers, citing infringement of their Breakout intellectual property.

Bootant has received a takedown for Break Classic and BreakTouch 3D and SpiffyWare was given a talking to for SuperPong 2 – citing both Breakout and Pong infringements.

Thing is, while the Tetris clone Tris was pulled, this was due to the too-similar name – the gameplay was almost certainly not actionable. If Atari are applying the same legal principles, shouldn’t they also be going after the producers of Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo?

Atari’s Legal Team Attacking iPhone “Breakout” Clones [Touch Arcade]