British indie developer Jeff Minter became a legend after coding the Atari Jaguar game Tempest 2000, transforming Dave Theurer’s 3D wireframe shooter into a cartridge-based rave. Trippy visuals, an ...

Atari today launches Asteroids reboot Asteroids: Outpost on Steam as an Early Access title - and it's threatened to reboot other cult classic Atari games, too. Asteroids: Outpost is an open world ...

Surprise! Atari has announced Tempest 4000, the sequel to the classic arcade game Tempest, is coming out later in 2017 for PC and consoles. We don't have any assets of Tempest 4000, so here's a ...

Atari have announced they're revitalising Tempest, the classic 1981 arcade game, with a new game entitled Tempest 4000. The game will be the fourth Tempest game, and will be developed by Jeff Minter, ...

“Just as in the original game, players are once again in control of the Claw, a powerful spacecraft equipped to destroy deadly creatures and other obstructions with rapid-fire shots on vibrant ...

Atari has announced its working on a new version of classic arcade title Tempest, and long-serving designer Jeff Minter is back on board. Tempest 4000 will be released by the end of the year for PC ...

Atari has been responsible for some of the better old-school franchises still making the rounds today (thanks to releases like Atari Flashback), but there’s something about Tempest that resonates with ...

The original Tempest was one of the first games to feature 3D vector graphics. Atari used the same wireframe aesthetic in other iconic titles like Asteroids, Battlezone and Star Wars, which you might ...

The classic arcade game Tempest is coming back in the form of a miniature cabinet via Kickstarter through New Wave Toys. This 1/6th-scale machine, called the Replicade X Tempest, surpassed the funding ...

Llamasoft developer Jeff Minter is currently embroiled in a heated legal discussion with Atari over the rights to TxK, a tube shooter released last year on the Vita that bears a striking resemblance ...

Jeff Minter's TxK, a spiritual successor to the Tempest franchise he worked on for Atari in the 1990s, will not release on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Android following a copyright claim and ...

Tempest was one of the most popular arcade games of the '80s. The vector graphics were new at the time, and the gradually scaling difficulty lured gamers everywhere to continue plunking quarter after ...