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Atari pressed the reset button on its Atari VCS game console

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Atari made a lot of noise last year when it announced its Ataribox game console. But in December, just as it was about to launch its crowdfunding campaign and preorders for the box, it hit the pause button. The company postponed its preorders, and its project general manager Feargal Mac Conuladh left.

Last week, during the Game Developers Conference, the company announced it was back on track and renamed the box the Atari VCS. I caught up with Atari CEO, Fred Chesnais, and we talked about the new plan to bring a retro-modern game console to Atari fans.

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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.