Infogrames Officially Changes Name To Atari

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday May 6, 2003 @07:15PM from the cruising-round-los-angeles-astride-his-harley dept.

According to this story from Reuters via Yahoo News, Infogrames is now officially changing its name to Atari worldwide. The French publisher originally picked up the home rights to the Atari name after buying Hasbro Interactive in 2001, and had recently been rebranding much of its line-up (even PC RPGs) with the Atari logo alongside the Infogrames one. Lovable French ruffian and Atari CEO Bruno Bonnell will open the Nasdaq stock exchange on Wednesday morning to herald the new ATAR stock ticker symbol for the company.

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apologies in advance... by Hadlock · 2003-05-06 20:33 · Score: 2, Funny

Atari was briefly in the engineering/scientific/graphics workstation business!

Imagine a beowulf cluster of Transputers!

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Re:Yeah, but... by Tink2000 · 2003-05-07 02:46 · Score: 2, Funny

Right after they release ET: The Extraterrestrial 2, I'd imagine.

Ooh look! A little dot! *raises neck and makes meowing-like noises*

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