Atari’s U.S. operation filed for bankruptcy in New York late Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reported. The pioneering, three-decade-old video game company behind “Pong,” and “Asteroids” has struggled to turn a profit in recent years and may be sold off to new buyers as a whole or in parts, the Los Angeles Times noted. Since 2000, Atari has been owned by a French company formerly known as Infogrames (which changed its name to Atari S.A.) and relies on a London firm called BlueBay Asset Management for cash flow.
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