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Major news alert! Atari denies it is owned by Soulja Boy

Bullet Club

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Atari denies it is owned by Soulja Boy​

This clown car never stops.

The modern form of Atari is a zombie: a bunch of post-glory-days companies that have acquired the assets and IPs of one of the greats, and use them in all sorts of slightly questionable ways. We've had Atari casinos, concepts for Atari hotels, dabbling in crypto, the nice-looking but wildly overpriced Atari VCS relaunch, and most recently of course Atari got into NFTs.

Well, if that wasn't all mad enough, now the rapper Soulja Boy has taken to social media to declare that he, the one and only Soulja Boy, now owns Atari. He's pretty explicit about it too: "I own Atari. The first rapper to ever own a videogame company."

Soulja Boy adds that Atari is, apparently, going to buy the Soulja Boy console company for a cool $140 million.




"I signed two deals with Atari," says Soulja Boy, before exhorting his followers to find Atari on twitter. "We gonna take it to the next level know what I'm saying."

Not that acquiring Atari was Soulja Boy's only announcement of the day. "I just signed Tom Hanks' son, Chet Hanks, he got some fire music coming out."

Got to respect the hustle, I guess. Now, Atari itself seems to have been unaware of this change in affairs, and shortly after Soulja Boy's 'announcement' took to its own Twitter account to clarify that current CEO Wade Rosen is still very much the CEO (as well as a major shareholder).




This didn't stop Soulja Boy, who as well as posting his usual bromides on Twitter last night took the time to post an article repeating the claim he's the first rapper to own a games company.

What exactly is going on here is as clear as mud, though if one thing seems certain, it's that Soulja Boy doesn't actually own Atari. I've reached out to Atari to ask about the nature of its deals with Soulja Boy: the company simply pointed me towards "Atari's recent tweet regarding the matter."

Source: PC Gamer

Atari Superman dat ho.
 

Dream-Knife

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Why does anyone still care about atari?

They last published a few games for Xbox, including Unreal Championship and Housemarq's amazing Transworld Snowboarding, but they haven't actually made anything in 30+ years.
 

Bullet Club

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Why does anyone still care about atari?

They last published a few games for Xbox, including Unreal Championship and Housemarq's amazing Transworld Snowboarding, but they haven't actually made anything in 30+ years.
They released a new console recently.


A massively successful launch.
 

MrA

Member
I fucking love Soulja Boy so much! The way he manages to get under everyone's skin all the time has me dying. One of the best trolls rn, that's for sure.
I don't know anything about him except his trolling and I have to say he delivers some fine trolling
 
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SpongebobSquaredance

Unconfirmed Member
this is literally the funniest shit ever. If he actually would be CEO, what would that be like though? Can't be much worse than current day Atari.
 
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