Atari, the video game developer company widely known as Pac-Man and Pong, announced plans for the launch of its own digital currency, which will be better known as "Atari Token." Atari recently acquired 15% of the shares of a Gibraltar-based company, Infinity Networks LTD, and granted a license to the firm. This association, which was mentioned last December, will allow the creation of a digital entertainment platform that uses the Atari Token as currency.
Drederic Chesnais, president of Atari, said in a statement: "Our goal is to take strategic positions with a limited risk, to create better sources of value with the assets and the Atari brand." In the past, Atari had announced that it would be working on a currency also called Atari Token in order to serve as a purchase currency for its products, so it is still not entirely clear whether this new Criptomoneda will also serve to that Purpose.
Among other announcements, the video game company said it plans to integrate payments with Criptomonedas through a partnership with Pariplay, which offers online games using products and characters originally designed by Atari as part of its catalog . In turn, the company announced last week that it also had plans to create a second digital currency with the intention of being used in an online casino project.