Atari is buying retro game specialist Digital Eclipse

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developer Digital Eclipse. The acquisition, which is expected to close in the coming days, will be
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based on the performance of Digital Eclipse over the next decade. Atari says that by bringing Digital Eclipse under its wing, it "will be able to further support its retro-focused growth strategy."

Over the last several years, Digital Eclipse has become well-known for its expertise in remastering older titles and releasing them as collections.
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,
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and the
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are among its more notable projects.


Digital Eclipse caught the attention of many last year with
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. That
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pulled together dozens of games from across Atari's 50-year history and placed them in context with the help of marketing and development documents, archival footage and new interviews with former Atari employees. Digital Eclipse built on the "interactive documentary" format with this year's release of The Making of
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It
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to continue with this Gold Master Series
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project under Atari's umbrella. It will still have the ability to work with third-party developers and publishers, and there are several non-Atari projects in the works that it has yet to announce.

Atari seems to be on a mission to become a powerhouse in retro gaming and game preservation. It also
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, a developer that
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in
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, and AtariAge (a community and news site that focuses on Atari) this year. In addition, Atari has been
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many gaming franchises from the 1980s and 1990s.

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