Atari Developing Its Own 'PS3 Home beater'

Atari's online boss reveals Atari is currently working on their own ambitious PS3 Home-beating community portal.

According to trade mag MCV via Computer & Video Games, the company is to roll out a "major new online initiative" in the summer that will allow users to create their own game experiences. The project will initially appear on PC only, but Atari Online Entertainment senior vice president Chris Bergstresser hints at bigger things to come.

"Let's just say it will be PC to start with," he said. "I can't and I won't speak for Europe but presumably if it is a success in the US then yes, it will be coming to Europe. We would quickly open it up to other territories."

"Phil Harrison had this big announcement of Game 3.0 and I think its great that he's announced that because it will lend legitimacy to what we're doing. But it goes further than that."

"We feel user generated content is not just something you just let people dabble in," Bergstresser adds, "we feel that it is something where you give people the tools to do whatever the hell they want."