Atari has today announced the purchase of the Intellivision brand alongside "certain games" from Intellivision Entertainment LLC. This is a melancholy coda to the early days of home consoles in the ...

For fans of old-school games, it’s kind of like Coke acquiring Pepsi: Atari, which produced one of the first hit home game consoles, announced a deal to acquire the brand of long-time rival ...

Atari and Intellivision launched dueling consoles, the Atari 2600, and Intellivision. Intellivision was developed by Mattel Electronics and introduced to the world in 1979. It took a while, but Atari ...

Atari finally won the oldest console war of all recently--even though most of us thought it ended decades ago. The company announced that it bought the Intellivision brand, best-known for being one of ...

Atari acquires Intellivision, ending a historic rivalry and gaining over 200 classic games. The deal excludes the Intellivision Amico, which will continue development under a rebranded company. Live ...

Today the console wars are largely fought between Microsoft (Xbox One X|S) and Sony (PlayStation 5), and you can throw Nintendo (Switch) in there as well. But arguably the first console skirmish of ...

Intellivision will rebrand and continue developing the Amico game console. Two legendary pieces of gaming history are now one. Atari has officially acquired the Intellivision brand along with 200 ...

In the United States, the video game era in the late 1970s and early 1980s was defined by two consoles - the Atari 2600 and Intellivision. This rivalry predates the Nintendo versus Sega era by a ...

What just happened? The long-troubled Intellivision Amico could be dead and buried. Its trademark with the USPTO now reads as Abandoned, suggesting the developers have given up on ever releasing the ...

For most people, $40 or $50 is a significant amount of money. But those are routine prices for the hundreds of computer and video games that generate the most attention each year. Consumers must make ...