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Today, Atari has unveiled a brand new puzzle-platformer game called Kombinera, which is coming to pretty much any platform you can think of this April.
Kombinera is a new Atari IP where players take control of differently colored balls and use them and their unique abilities to work their way through over 300 environments and puzzles. The balls all move in unison, but different colors will interact with puzzles in different ways, requiring concentration and puzzle-solving to move forward.
The game is developed by St. Louis-based Graphite Lab, with Atari publishing. Atari's role is, per CEO Wade Rosen, a recommitment to publish more games going forward after a significant loss of momentum in the last decade. Since September, Atari has published a number of "Recharged" versions of older arcade games such as Brick Breaker, Asteroids, and others. But Kombinera is the first new IP to come out of this initiative, and according to Rosen, the first of many to come.
Rosen tells IGN that Atari's upcoming release calendar has the publisher releasing, on average, a new game every month for the next 13 months. That includes a mixture of classic IP (like the Recharged games), brand new IP, and new games from existing franchises. For now, Atari is working entirely with external studios, though Rosen suggests they may one day bring development in-house. He says that in the coming months and years, we can expect to "see Atari collaborate with a variety of studios, from small independents to larger studios with well-established reputations."
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Coming in April on multiple platforms including the Atari VCS
Kombinera is a new Atari IP where players take control of differently colored balls and use them and their unique abilities to work their way through over 300 environments and puzzles. The balls all move in unison, but different colors will interact with puzzles in different ways, requiring concentration and puzzle-solving to move forward.
The game is developed by St. Louis-based Graphite Lab, with Atari publishing. Atari's role is, per CEO Wade Rosen, a recommitment to publish more games going forward after a significant loss of momentum in the last decade. Since September, Atari has published a number of "Recharged" versions of older arcade games such as Brick Breaker, Asteroids, and others. But Kombinera is the first new IP to come out of this initiative, and according to Rosen, the first of many to come.
Rosen tells IGN that Atari's upcoming release calendar has the publisher releasing, on average, a new game every month for the next 13 months. That includes a mixture of classic IP (like the Recharged games), brand new IP, and new games from existing franchises. For now, Atari is working entirely with external studios, though Rosen suggests they may one day bring development in-house. He says that in the coming months and years, we can expect to "see Atari collaborate with a variety of studios, from small independents to larger studios with well-established reputations."
Atari Is Publishing Kombinera, Its First Original Game In Years - IGN
Today, Atari has unveiled its first original game in years: a puzzle-platformer called Kombinera, coming to pretty much any platform you can think of this April.
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Coming in April on multiple platforms including the Atari VCS
