Roller Coaster Tycoon Comes To The 3DS

Roller Coaster Tycoon has been one of my favorite games for years and it's kind of cool to see that the series will be coming to the 3DS. N-Space has announced that they will be developing a Roller Coaster Tycoon for Nintendo's 3D handheld. Atari will be publishing the game which will be relesed sometime in March next year. Here are some details for the upcoming game:

• Published by Atari
• Developed by N-Space
• View Coasters in 3D
• Touchscreen controls
• Built from the ground up with all-new assets exclusive to 3DS
• Several coaster design options including suspended, hydraulic, wooden, steel and inverted
• Other rides such as monorails, prebuilt kiddie carousels and country fair-style attracions
• Give parks themes such as haunted house and others
• Handle ride construction and park maintenance
• Hire and manage staff
• This includes janitors, mechanics and more
• Multiple modes such as Coaster Creator and Sandbox
• Built-in tutorials
• Coaster Story mode teaches you how to do everything through a series of scenarios and tutorials
• In-game adviser will help identify in-part objectives and show players their progress
• Due out in March

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Atari Cracks Down On Fan Websites

The last time I heard anything relating to Atari was...actually, I don't think I've really ever heard anything Atari related in any form of news throughout my years. There's always a first for something at least, and this first Atari related news has to do with Atari lawyers shutting down any Atari related sites, mainly non-commercial fan sites.

Atari has been cracking down on websites that are any way related to Atari, whether it be a hobbyist site or an Atari news site. The reason why Atari is doing such a thing is pretty unclear at the moment. One site in particular, atari2600.org, was forced to shut down his site and has since posted this message:

"Following a 'request' from Atari Legal's lawyer to hand them this domain, and to show my good faith and intentions with regard to their trademark and claims thereof... I have removed all content of this site.

I'm a bit of a retro-gaming nut. Over the 11 years I've 'owned' this domain, the site was used as a personal/hobbyist site for my interest in '2600 homebrew programming. It's variously been used to promote my '2600 game Qb (2001-2003), my extensive tutorials on '2600 programming, as a domain for the '2600 programmers' [stella] mailing list (2004-2010) and more recently linking to some of my videos and demos for the platform. The '2600 platform has been near and dear to my heart for a long time. 

:("

 Like I said, it's unclear on why Atari is doing this now as opposed to years ago. Their reason better be one hell of a reason though. I am really interested in what Atari is going to say about this, if they do say anything. I'll keep you guys updated though.

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