Digital Eclipse schedules free DLC packs for Atari 50

Good news for owners of Atari 50, the anniversary collection released by Atari and Digital Eclipse (now part of Atari) earlier this year. Multiple DLC packs are planned for the game, with the first of these debuting next week.

The first DLC pack includes a dozen yet undetermined Atari 2600 games. That's not so exciting, but later DLC packs open the door to a much-needed boost in the collection's anemic selection of Atari Lynx titles. None of the games developed by Epyx were included in Atari 50 when the collection first launched... a cruel blow to fans, considering that titles like Slime World, California Games, Electrocop, and Blue Lightning were among the standouts in the color handheld's library.

(Seriously, an Atari Lynx collection without Blue Lightning is like a taco without the shell. It just completely misses the point.)

Thanks to Time Ext er, Nintendo Life for the scoop. Sorry, force of habit.