20 Facts About Atari SA

Atari SA is a French video game holding company headquartered in Paris.

Atari SA is a public company that, as of 2007, had, as a majority stockholder, the company California US Holdings, Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of IESA.

Atari SA, Inc has the rights to publish and sublicense in North America certain intellectual properties either owned or licensed by IESA or its subsidiaries, including Atari SA Interactive.

On July 29,2004, Epic Games, the developer behind the Unreal franchise, announced they had ended their publishing contract with Atari SA and signed a three-game publishing deal with Midway Games beginning with Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict in 2005, although Atari SA would continue to publish the existing back catalog of titles.

On September 1,2006, Atari SA, Inc announced that its stock faced delisting from the NASDAQ stock exchange due to its price having fallen below $1.

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In July 2007, Atari SA sold back their exclusive Hasbro licensing deal back to Hasbro for $19 Million, which concluded with Hasbro signing a new casual game deal with Electronic Arts a month later.

On November 7, GameSpot reported that Atari SA was beginning to run out of money, losing 12 million dollars in the first fiscal quarter of 2008.

Atari SA was notified of NASDAQ's final decision on April 24,2008, and the appeal hearing took place on May 1,2008.

Atari SA was expected to raise its value to $15 million USD from the period of December 20,2007 through to March 2008.

Atari SA received notice of its absolute delisting on September 12,2008.

On 21 October 2010, Atari SA announced Atari SA's reference shareholders BlueBay Value Recovery Fund Limited and BlueBay Multi-Strategy Fund Limited are exploring a disposal of the shares and equity-linked instruments held by them.

In July 2013, Atari SA began to sell its game assets, developers and the famous "Fuji" logo and the Atari SA name in a bankruptcy auction.

Atari SA had plans to sell off the Test Drive and RollerCoaster Tycoon franchises.

In December 2016, Atari SA sold the Test Drive franchise to Bigben Interactive.

In 2015, Atari SA announced a turnaround strategy that would focus on re-releasing the catalogue of Atari SA games.

In 2020, the Atari SA Token was launched by Atari SA, in equal partnership with the ICICB Group.

Group partnering with Atari SA gave birth to a new company incorporated in Gibraltar called Atari SA Chain LTD.

In March 2021, Atari SA extended its partnership with ICICB Group for the development of Atari SA branded hotels, with the first hotels to be constructed in Dubai, Gibraltar and Spain.

On July 5,2021, Atari SA Gaming announced to fully reenter the premium console and handheld industry and put a lesser extent to free-to-play and mobile games, leading to possible titles being closed or sold, alongside the closure of Atari SA Casino.

On November 24,2021, Atari SA announced they had invested $500,000 in retro gaming streaming platform Antstream, and a deal to potentially purchase MobyGames for $1.