Fans not opting to purchase the Limited Edition of BioShock 2 can get their hands on the soundtrack next week, when 2K Games releases two versions of the soundtrack digitally, packed with the greatest hits from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s.
Have time to waste on this lovely August Saturday? If you do, there’s an appallingly expansive look at the history of Atari’s early years (19 pages, plus one for citations) over at Gamasutra. This is actually a companion piece to the first Atari retrospective, which looked at the years from ’71 to ’77 (also clocking in at a mere 20 pages). It’s stuffed with quotes, so the length isn’t simply ‘and then … and then … and then ….’ Steve Fulton describes this period as one of the most exciting for Atari: