{"id":66157,"date":"2014-06-19T12:36:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T10:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=66157"},"modified":"2014-06-19T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T10:38:15","slug":"atari-targets-gay-and-lesbian-gamers-in-comeback-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/66157-atari-targets-gay-and-lesbian-gamers-in-comeback-plan","title":{"rendered":"Atari targets gay and lesbian gamers in comeback plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atari has unveiled its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atari.com\/news\/atari-unveils-corporate-comeback-strategy-interactive-entertainment-production-company\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;corporate comeback strategy&#8221;<\/a>,\u00a0which they hope will expand its business and bring the company mountain-loads of success.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly does this grand plan entail?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The company will aim at capitalising on rapidly growing markets and reach out to new audiences \u2013 including LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender), social casinos, real-money gambling, and YouTube with exclusive video content,&#8221; stated Atari.<\/p>\n<p>We are not exactly sure what they plan to do, but if it means making games for people of a particular sexual persuasion it will be interesting to see what they come up with. Last time I checked, most people liked\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62779-rollercoaster-tycoon-4-pc-to-please-die-hard-fans.html\">RollerCoaster Tycoon<\/a>, regardless of their sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the new markets, Atari plans to bring back some of its old titles to modern platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Atari is extending its classic gaming brands to various platforms including mobile (iOS and Android), PC, online, and other digital mediums.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More importantly Atari, where can I buy a new branded t-shirt? Mine is getting a bit old.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/65231-game-returns-in-sa-what-are-your-rights.html\">Game returns in SA: what are your rights?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65873-destinys-gameplay-multiplayer-shown-off-at-e3.html\">Destiny\u2019s gameplay, multiplayer shown off at E3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65803-assassins-creed-unity-gets-4-player-co-op-and-more.html\">Assassin\u2019s Creed Unity gets 4 player co-op and more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atari says it has a plan to be great again &#8211; let&#8217;s cross fingers for them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":49644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,3737,6073],"class_list":["post-66157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-atari","tag-lgbt-gamers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66159,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66157\/revisions\/66159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}