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Atari is the latest game publisher to reveal its financial numbers. The company announced that for the nine month period that ended on December 31, 2010 it had 41 million euros in revenues. While that's a decline of 55.7 percent compared to the same period a year ago Atari said those results were within its expectations.

Atari's latest game, the open world driving title Test Drive Unlimited 2, was released last week. It has a number of downloadable PC games due out in the next few months including remakes of Star Raiders and Yars Revenge along with Dungeons and Dragons Daggerdale and Ghostbusters Sanctum of Slime. It's next major retail game release will be The Witcher 2 in mid-May.

Publisher Atari is once again going back and reviving another of its classic games from its 2600 days. GameSpot has the first word on the new version of Star Raiders which in its original incarnation featured first person space battles combined with a large (for its time) tactical map.

The new version of the game is being developed by Incinerator Studios and will have much of the core gameplay design of the original combined with modern graphics, an episodic storyline, customizable space ships and online multiplayer modes. The game is currently due for release on the PC via download and other platforms in early 2011.