Well, this was “fun” news to wake up to… long-running classic gaming forum AtariAge has been purchased by Atari, with its co-founder Albert Yarusso hired to maintain the site.

Perhaps this was inevitable… Atari SA has been aggressively buying up IP holders left and right, and the web site AtariAge shares its name with a newsletter published by Atari forty years ago.

Still, it’s rarely a good thing when independent online publishers get gobbled up by massive corporate interests. Remember how Jump the Shark jumped the shark after Fox bought it and turned it into a vapid TV gossip site?