Publisher Atari has revealed that, as of today, its stock will no longer be listed or traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market.

The action follows numerous warnings from Nasdaq, in which Atari was informed that it would be delisted if the value of its public shares did not increase to $15 million or more and stay above that figure for at least ten days.

Following its removal from Nasdaq, Atari stock will be available for purchase and sale through delisted company trader Pink Sheets.

The company does not expect its delisting to affect its merger with parent company Infogrames, which is set to close in the third quarter of 2008.

Publisher Infogrames today announced that it has acquired the remaining shares of Atari for $11 million, making the ailing company a wholly-owned subsidiary.

Infogrames previously held a majority stake of 51.4% in Atari.

"Bringing Atari US and Infogrames businesses together will enable us to create a simplified global structure for our business as we seek to re-build a well-managed, cohesive and financially disciplined company," said Infogrames CEO David Gardner.

Atari had been financially troubled for months, posting losses quarter after quarter. As part of the merger, Infogrames has agreed to lend Atari $20 million in cash.

Battlezone and Rocky and Bullwinkle will debut on Xbox Live Arcade this week, Microsoft has revealed. Both will be downloadable from the Xbox 360's online Xbox Live Marketplace beginning Wednesday, April 16.

Ported by Stainless Games and priced at 400 Microsoft Points ($5), Battlezone is an update to Atari's classic tank-on-tank combat title. As is typical for most XBLA reimaginings, it includes both the original game and a mode with enhanced graphics.

Battlezone also features support for two-person offline and online multiplayer.

A collection of over 100 mini-games inspired by the cartoon series, Rocky and Bullwinkle was developed by Zen Studios and will sell for 800 Microsoft Points ($10). It allows up to 12 local players care of controlling-passing, and 25 of its mini-games can be played with the Xbox Live Vision camera.

Atari today announced the appointment of former Vivendi Games executive Jim Wilson as CEO and president of the troubled publisher, effective immediately.

Wilson's appointment is the latest in a series of restructuring efforts by Atari and parent company Infogrames following mounting losses and workforce cuts. His predecessor, David Pierce, resigned in November of last year.

Earlier this month, Atari owner Infogrames hired a new president of its own, former Sony Computer Entertainment executive Phil Harrison, with Harrison specifically noting Atari's high potential.

"Atari, Inc., with its world-renowned brand and strong library of game franchises, has a tremendous opportunity in North America," Wilson said today. "I look forward to working with the Atari team and shareholders to lead Atari, Inc. into its next phase of growth."

Valve Software today announced that Atari is the latest publisher to put many of its games up for download on Steam, Valve's popular digital distribution service.

Beginning today, Atari-published titles such as Bohemia Interactive's ArmA: Combat Operations and Frontier's RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Platinum will be available for purchase via the Steam store.

Valve also announced that CD Projekt's highly-rated RPG The Witcher will be added to the Atari catalog in the coming weeks, along with other Atari-published RPGs such as Obsidian Entertainment's Neverwinter Nights 2 and its expansion Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer.

Atari's largest shareholder and parent company Infogrames has made an offer to buy the remainder of shares and make the company private, GamesIndustry reports.

Infogrames, which already owns a 51 percent stake in Atari, offered $1.68 per share in an effort to retain the company as a wholly-owned property. Atari said that the company's board of directors intends to give the proposal a thorough evaluation.

The news comes just days after the appointment of former Sony executive Phil Harrison as president of Infogrames. Harrison noted that shaping the future of the Atari was one of his major goals in his new position.

Late last year, Atari enacted a plan to restructure its corporate model in the wake of mounting losses and a $3.5 million settlement payout to FUNimation over royalties owed for properties associated with Dragon Ball Z.

Atari parent company Infogrames Entertainment today announced the appointment of former Sony executive Phil Harrison as the company's new president.

Harrison, who resigned from his post as the president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios late last week, will also join Infogrames' board of directors in his new position. As president, he will oversee the studios and content development for the group.

"This is the perfect time to join Infogrames and help shape the future of Atari—one of the industry's legendary brands," Harrison said today. "As the game business moves rapidly online I believe we have an outstanding opportunity to create amazing network game and community experiences for players the world over."

The addition of Harrison to Infogrames' corporate roster comes amid troubled times for the publishing house, which is restructuring in effort to cope with mounting losses, a hefty settlement payout to FUNimation over royalties owed for properties associated with Dragon Ball Z, and a 20% cut of its workforce.

Metanet Software and Slick Entertainment's N+ will be this week's sole Xbox Live Arcade release, Microsoft has announced. Selling for 800 Microsoft Points ($10), it will be available for download from the Xbox 360's online marketplace Wednesday, February 20. Based on Metanet's original ninja-tastic physics-based freeware platformer N, the console remake adds cooperative and versus multiplayer, both local and online, along with more than 300 levels, a stage editor, additional costumes, and the promise of more downloadable arenas.

Versions of N+ are also in development for Nintendo DS and PSP at SilverBirch Studios. Slated to arrive later this spring, they will be published by Atari.

Neverwinter Vault has posted a Mysteries of Westgate Q&A, asking the folks at Ossian Studios about their Atari published Neverwinter Nights 2 adventure pack.

Following up on yesterday's trailer, Atari has provided us with new screenshots from the Xbox 360 version of Eden Games' modern reimagining of the classic survival horror series.

The game is currently slated for a May release on PC, Xbox 360, PS2 and Wii, with the PS3 edition said to follow later in the year.

Atari has sent out a new Alone in the Dark (PC, PS2, PS3, X360, Wii) movie, showing two minutes of gameplay footage from the Eden Games developed horror action game. As we recently noted, the game is due out this May.

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Metanet Software and Slick Entertainment's N+ , the console-enhanced remake of the ninja-tastic physics-based freeware platformer N, has completed Microsoft's certification process and will soon be unleashed onto the Xbox 360's online Xbox Live Arcade.

Slick Entertainment revealed the news on its website, though no specific date for the title, which supports user-created content and four-person multiplayer, was provided.

"It's been quite the ride to get this project out the door," wrote the developer. "It was like one of those nice and gentle rollercoaster rides, but just as you think you’re at the end, there is a double loop with a tripple[sic] corkscrew."

Versions of N+ are also in development for Nintendo DS and PSP at SilverBirch Studios, and will be published by Atari.

An Infogrames executive has confirmed that the release of Eden Games' Alone in the Dark (PC, PS2, PS3, X360, Wii) will be pushed back to May of this year.

In an interview with French newspaper Les Echos, republished on MCV, Infogrames CEO Patrick Leleu said "[Alone in the Dark's] development is nearing completion but some scenes in this fully immersive game deserve to be more polished and we will not take any shortcuts."

Infogrames owns a controlling stake in the struggling Alone in the Dark publisher Atari, holding roughly 51% of its shares.

Additionally, CVG reports that the PS3 version of Alone in the Dark has been delayed beyond the new May release window, but will still see a 2008 release.

Rumors of a delay were sparked when a feature in this month's Games For Windows magazine listed the title's release date as September, which Atari had dismissed earlier this week.

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Slated for a 2008 release on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit will support "fierce online battles" within "realistic battle stages," according to publisher Atari.

The game is being developed by Namco Bandai, the studio that brought us the combat classics Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2 (PS2) and Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai 2 (PSP). Check out some images below for an idea of just how extreme this game will be.

A representative of Atari has dismissed speculation that Eden Games' Alone in the Dark (PC, PS2, PS3, X360, Wii) has been delayed to September.

When reached for comment regarding a possible delay, an Atari spokesperson said, "Please treat this as a rumor as there is no official confirmation from Atari."

The rumor began circulating late last week, when Games For Windows magazine featured Alone in the Dark in an article of infamous delayed or cancelled games, listing the title's most current release window as September of this year.

The denial puts Alone in the Dark back within the release window of publisher Atari's current fiscal year, which ends March 31, 2008.

According to a feature in this month's Games For Windows magazine, Eden Games' Alone in the Dark (PC, PS2, PS3, X360, Wii) has been pushed back to a September 2008 release.

The feature, which details infamous delays and cancellations in PC gaming's history, lists Alone in the Dark's "estimated arrival time" as September of this year, six months behind its currently projected release window of this coming March.

Eden Games and Atari were reached for comment but have not responded as of this time.

While we did announce the winner of the Shacknews Holiday Contest of Doom yesterday, what we didn't announce were those who took away spoils in the sweepstakes from submitting an entry. Picking one winner wasn't easy, so with the assistance of my buddy the random number generator we came up with the answers. Those results follow:

• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - MoreVespeneGas (PS3), Jamiejme (PS3), Troz (PC)
• Quake Wars: Enemy Territory: Collectors Edition (PC) - Wormmeat, liqker
• Tony Hawk's Proving Ground (Wii) - kallanta, ieGod
• Bee Movie: The Game (Wii) - the stickboy, c_man_tmt
• Spiderman: Friend or Foe - helvetica (PC), bettycocker (PC), aeg1x (PSP)
• Signed Team Fortress 2 poster - itsjeff9
• Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles (PSP) - tiberius bill
• Silent Hill Origins (PSP) - nitaib
• Coded Arms: Contagion (PSP) - ohhjebus
• Metal Gear Solid Digital Graphic Novel (PSP) - MajorGun
• The Witcher (PC) - filthysock, ajax, grayscale, RomSteady, gonnabechef
• TotalGaming.net memberships with tokens for Galactic Civilizations 2 (PC) and Sins of a Solar Empire (PC) - Yoonix, WARLORD48, Reavers!, cool_canuck, rustified
• Oblivion: Game of the Year Edition - T-900 (PS3), TShandy (PC), Daggoth (PS3), Trips (PC), Hidden Key (360), Gibolas1234 (360)
• Shadowrun (360) - Redfield, exigence7
• Mass Effect (360) - Lawgiver, fuji-juice
• Prey: Collectors Edition (360) with a custom Xbox 360 faceplate and mousepad - BlackCat
• The ultimate mystery Bag of (Gaming) Crap - shortbuscaptain

Thanks to everyone who participated and to the companies that generously submitted prizes such as Activision, Konami, Valve, Microsoft, Stardock, Atari, Bethesda Softworks and 3DRealms. Stay tuned for more contests in the new year.

Games are what bring us together, and the holidays are what hopefully give us a nice end and new start to the year. Here at Shacknews, we too wish to acknowledge the festive gaiety of the season with a whole slew of prizes and a contest worthy of your time. We're asking you to recreate your favorite scene from a game and to give it a holiday theme. Interpret this directive as objectively or abstractly as you like, but humor, cleverness and skill should be the key ingredients of your entry.

We're going to give you a full week for this contest, accepting entries until December 26th at 11:59 CST, giving people that day after Christmas to submit a decent entry. Why so much time, you ask? Well I think we expect some pretty great entries since the first prize for this contest will be an Xbox 360 Elite edition game system.

Intimidated by the notion of making something? You shouldn't be, because just submitting something will enter you in our game sweepstakes. For this, we have a wide array of prizes such as Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat (PS3 and PC), the collectors edition of Quake Wars: Enemy Territory (PC), Tony Hawk's Proving Ground (Wii), Bee Movie: The Game (Wii), Spiderman: Friend or Foe (PC and PSP), a signed Team Fortress 2 poster, Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles (PSP), Silent Hill Origins (PSP), Coded Arms: Contagion (PSP), Metal Gear Solid Digital Graphic Novel (PSP), The Witcher (PC), TotalGaming.net memberships with tokens for Galactic Civilizations 2 (PC) and Sins of a Solar Empire (PC), Oblivion: Game of the Year Edition (360, PS3), Shadowrun (360), Mass Effect (360), the collectors edition of Prey (360) with a custom Prey 360 faceplate and mousepad, a plethora of t-shirts, an ultimate mystery Bag of (gaming) Crap and more just for submitting an entry, courtesy of Activision, Konami, Valve, Microsoft, Stardock, Atari, Bethesda Software, 3DRealms and Shacknews.

When submitting, post your entry in the comments to this article and please indicate if you own a PC, Xbox 360, Wii, PS3 or PSP. If you need tools, check out Splashup or Paint.net and image hosting can be found at EasyScreens, Photobucket and ImageShack. As many submissions can be made as you like, but quality will always win out over quantity. Worldwide entries will be accepted, however only North American residents are eligible for the Xbox 360.

Modern updates of two old-school classics hit the online Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday, December 19.

Selling for 400 Microsoft Points ($5), Stainless Games' revisiting of Atari's Tempest adds all sort of fancy graphical effects to the tunnel-based shooter. Of course, the original graphics are included as well.

Kuju Sheffield's reimagining of Sensible World of Soccer, meanwhile, is priced at 800 Microsoft Points ($10). Based on the supposedly fan-favorite Sensible World of Soccer '96/'97, the latest release in the series adds online play and high-definition assets to the mix.

Troubled North American game publisher Atari has completed the first steps of its restructuring process. The company's CEO recently resigned after mounting losses forced Infogrames to enact a serious restructuring plan.

The company borrowed an additional $4 million from BlueBay High Yield Investments to allow Atari "to meet its holiday season financing needs," according to the announcement. Undoubtedly, these financing needs include the company's settlement with animation studio FUNimation over royalties owed for properties associated with Dragon Ball Z.

It seems the bulk of the $4 million loan will go toward paying the $3.5 million settlement to FUNimation. Atari still has exclusive rights in North America for video games in the Dragon Ball Z franchise through January 2010.

No longer a developer, Atari also renegotiated its publishing and distribution agreements with parent company Infogrames, and gave the Paris-based publishing house license to the Atari name for the restructuring initiative in connection with U.S. company's website.