Atari's Breakout and Asteroids will join Online Arcade in a blockchain partnership with Coinbase.
Atari's Breakout and Asteroids will join Online Arcade in a blockchain partnership with Coinbase.
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Atari partners with Coinbase to bring Asteroids and Breakout to blockchain

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Atari is bringing their classic games Asteroids and Breakout to the blockchain in a partnership with Coinbase.

The games will be part of a celebration of Onchain Summer and the new Onchain Arcade, where players can compete to earn a spot on the leaderboard to earn rewards. Mint proceeds go directly to the creators who helped bring these games to life.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.