APRIL 19, 2010 • David Gardner and Phil Harrison resigned from the Atari S.A. board of directors. The publisher wants to increase focus on its historic brand, adding Atari founder Nolan Bushnell and online entrepreneur Tom Virden as replacements. Bushnell serves as a representative of the BlueBay High Yield Investment SARL (Luxembourg), and Virden will join the Atari audit committee.

Impact: Gardner and Harrison stepped down from their positions as CEO and president in early 2009, so they were already pretty much out of the picture.  Bushnell founded the original Atari, but it has no relationship to the current Atari which is a brand name adopted by French publisher Infogrames in 2001.  Atari has been significantly downsized in recent years, including selling off much of its European distribution to Namco Bandai in 2009.  The big new product from the company is the Star Trek Online MMOG.