TERM EXTENSION TO XBOX PUBLISHER LICENSE AGREEMENT

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                                                                   EXHIBIT 99.3

              TERM EXTENSIONS TO XBOX(R) PUBLISHER LICENSE AGREEMENT

      ATARI, INC. ("PUBLISHER") and MICROSOFT LICENSING, GP have entered into

that certain Xbox(R) Publisher License Agreement dated on or about April 18,2001

(the "PLA"). The term of the PLA is three years from the first commercial launch

of the Xbox, which was November 15,2001. The PLA will therefore expire by its

own terms on November 15,2004. The parties hereby