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Xbox co-creator channels arcade classics at mobile-game startup

The correlations between classic arcade games like Centipede and popular mobile games like Angry Birds are undeniable: they're simple, fun, and addictive. Seamus Blackley has hired a slew of old-school game developers to try to cash in on that fact with his company Innovative Leisure.

Atari "dream team" reforms to make games for "the new arcade", iOS

A "dream team" of old Atari heroes who shaped early videogames are reassembling to pump out games for iOS - "the new arcade". They will be known as Innovative Leisure. Boring - my imaginary dog could do better. They will be lead by Seamus Blackley, the man who co-wrote the initial Xbox proposal and assembled the original Xbox team. His journalist wife Van Burnham, author of Supercade, will help ...

Seamus Blackley's new team of Atari coin-op superstars

Imagine if the creators of classic arcade games like Asteroids, Tank and Battlezone got together and decided to start making games for iPad. You'd have to wonder how their "old school" mindsets would translate to perhaps the most dynamic gaming platform our there. Soon, we won't have to wonder, because a new video game company, led by former Xbox man Seamus Blackley, is combining the talents of ...

Interview: Seamus Blackley's new team of Atari coin-op superstars aim for iPad

Imagine if the creators of classic arcade games like Asteroids, Tank and Battlezone got together and decided to start making games for iPad. You'd have to wonder how their "old school" mindsets would translate to perhaps the most dynamic gaming platform our there. Soon, we won't have to wonder, because a new video game company, led by former Xbox man Seamus Blackley, is combining the talents of ...

Top 10 Atari Arcade Games

In this week's TIME Magazine, we write about a group of 10 original Atari programmers who are banding together to form a new casual gaming company. Here's a look at some of the old company's best coin-op titles.