The Ataribox, a new console from the Atari game company, will be launched in spring 2018. The device will be offered through a crowd-funding campaign for roughly 250 to 300 dollars (~240 euros).

Later on in the autumn, the device should appear on the Indiegogo crowdfunding site. Look at the Ataribox as a bit of a steambox, on which you can play a number of classic Atari games, but modern games can as long as they are not too graphically demanding. The Ataribox will make use of a custom AMD processor with Radeon graphics. There are now details about it just yet. The console will be running a customized version of Linux. The Ataribox would be capable of music and video streaming as well as running apps and web browsing.

The Ataribox team will start its campaign on Indiegogo next month to crowdfund the development of this console. In July, the first images of the Ataribox were released. The device is styled after the Atari 2600 from 1977.





