The dirty, crushed and crumpled Atari 2600 cartridges that sat buried in a New Mexico landfill for more than 30 years are now up for auction on eBay, and some of those unearthed treasures are going ...

It has always been a myth that video game pioneer Atari buried their disgraced E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial title in the New Mexican desert after it nearly left them depleted. The shame was brought on ...

"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," a game that was so terrible it is widely believed to have caused the demise of Atari and the entire video game industry in the 1980s, is now selling online on eBay and is ...

Yesterday marked the climax of a decades-long story that surrounded one of the most poorly received video games in history. A Microsoft-backed documentary crew took to a landfill in the desert town of ...

Microsoft has released its documentary “Atari: Game Over” for free through its Xbox Video store. The hour-long film chronicles the rise and fall of Atari by literally uncovering the truth of what ...

Fans of video game history may want to book flights to New Mexico. On April 26, a team of documentarians and garbage contractors will excavate the fabled landfill where E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ...

The title that almost single-handedly ended console gaming before it truly began will soon take its place next to several hallowed video game relics in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of ...

However, the Atari 2600's library was also its downfall. The film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial had a huge amount of hype behind it. It was helped in no small part by director Steven Spielberg being at ...