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Action Meets Fantasy in Silverfall(TM)

Atari and Monte Cristo Announce New Action RPG Game for North America

NEW YORK, Sept. 14: Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR), one of the world's most recognized brands and leading third-party video game publisher, today announced the upcoming North American release of Silverfall TM , a 3D action role-playing game (RPG) that casts players into a world torn between science and nature. Developed by Monte Cristo Games, Silverfall will be available in North America for Windows in February 2007.

Set in a world of fantasy dominated by the great, opposing powers of technology and nature, Silverfall gamers must choose between these forces in order to conquer all forthcoming quests and save the principal city from falling. Two companions will accompany them on their journey through the fascinating world of Nelwe. Decision-making is key throughout the game, as players' choices impact both storyline and accumulation of skills.

"Atari is committed to bringing engaging products to gamers," said Robert Stevenson, Vice President of Business Development, Atari, Inc. "Silverfall offers a deep role-playing experience and an abundance of features that deliver an exciting gaming experience for PC and RPG fans."

Silverfall offers a unique character building system of advancement and equipment that allows for complete freedom to customize characters. Gamers can develop unique characters such as scientist troll magicians, elemental elf warriors, or mercantile goblins. Fighting and magic are employed throughout the game, and vary from melee, ranged and technical to light, elemental and dark. Gamers will play throughout a 25-hour main quest, numerous side quests and two multiplayer modes, player-versus-player and co-operative. With four races to choose from, nine skill sets encompassing more than 130 individual skills, over 100 monsters, and advanced 3D graphics, Silverfall replenishes the RPG genre with a memorable hack-and-slash action adventure.

For more information on Silverfall, Atari and its entire product line-up please visit www.atari.com.

About Monte Cristo

Monte Cristo is a leading independent executive producer of entertainment software. Since 1995, the company has released 25 products. Based in Paris (France) and in Kiew (Ukraine) Monte Cristo currently focuses its production and design resources towards city builder and role playing games. For more information, visit www.montecristogames.com.

About Atari

New York-based Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR) develops interactive games for all platforms and is one of the largest third-party publishers of interactive entertainment software in the U.S. The Company's 1,000+ titles include hard- core, genre-defining franchises such as The Matrix TM (Enter The Matrix and The Matrix: Path of Neo) and Test Drive ® ; and mass-market and children's franchises such as Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues TM and Dora the Explorer TM , and Dragon Ball Z ® . Atari, Inc. is a majority-owned subsidiary of France- based Infogrames Entertainment SA (Euronext - ISIN: FR-0000052573), the largest interactive games publisher in Europe. For more information, visit www.atari.com.

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