Atari has launched an end-of-year enterprise replace relating to its work and efficiency throughout 2024; its first full calendar yr in executing its new retro-focused technique.
Crucially, issues appear to be wanting good for Atari, with the corporate highlighting a number of launches throughout 2024, together with the likes of Yars Rising, Mighty Morphin Energy Rangers: Rita’s Rewind, The Factor: Remastered, and RollerCoaster Tycoon Basic.
It particularly singled out its acquisitions of Digital Eclipse and Nightdive Studios, noting how this has “considerably deepened the corporate’s experience in bringing retro video games from the Seventies via the early 2000s to fashionable PCs and consoles and expanded the corporate’s ability and repute for buying the rights to and creating content material round a number of the world’s most beloved IPs”.
Although not essentially Change-related, Atari additionally hailed its launch of the brand new Atari 7800+ console, {hardware} that enables customers to play authentic 2600 and 7800 cartridges whereas providing fashionable conveniences comparable to wi-fi controllers and HDMI output.
Atari’s CEO, Wade Rosen, commented on the corporate’s efficiency in 2024 and said:
“It was vital that Atari execute in opposition to our retro-focused technique in 2024, and I’m extraordinarily happy with the corporate’s efficiency throughout all of our enterprise traces.
“Ending the yr with such a powerful reception to our fourth-quarter recreation releases — Mighty Morphin Energy Rangers: Rita’s Rewind and The Factor: Remastered, in addition to the Nintendo Change launch of RollerCoaster Tycoon Basic — offers me confidence that our technique will result in much more success within the coming yr.”
The corporate additionally revived the publishing model Infrogames in 2024, buying the rights to titles comparable to Bread & Fred, Completely Dependable Supply Service, and Surgeon Simulator.
