Piece by piece, we're starting to learn a little more about Atari's plans for the Atari VCS, formerly known by the much cooler name of the Ataribox.

The little console that could eventually exist finally has a real name. The Ataribox is now going to be known as the Atari VCS.

We still don't know much else about it.

The Ataribox will be Atari's modern crack at the console market -- if only the company could make some solid progress on the actual hardware. Unfortunately, the project is essentially on hold, with the December 14 Indiegogo campaign suspended for an undisclosed period of time.

Atari, my dude, please get it together. The classic console maker has slowly trickled out details about its upcoming retro gaming machine over the last few months, and each time it sounds more and more like this project is misguided. Yesterday brought the biggest dump of news from Atari yet, and it's too expensive, hasn't been funded, and Atari doesn't even seem to know who it's for.

Here's something you probably expected: the Ataribox, a machine designed to play modern and retro games, will ship next year. But what you probably didn't expect is that it's running on ... Linux.