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If you remember The Bards Tale, early Ultima and TSR-era Dungeons & Dragons computer games, Skald: Against the Black Priory will be immediately familiar. But unlike those games, limited as they were by the era's technical and graphical constraint...
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Xbox Game Pass gives members access to a huge library of downloadable games. Plans start at $10 a month, and the Ultimate plan supports cloud gaming.
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If the Atari 400 isn't so famous as other classic game consoles, in 1979 it (and its properly-keyboarded big sibling, the 800) was the gaming computer to have. And now you can have it again, in the form of the 400 Mini, which emulates not only that m...
A 20-year-old New Jersey gamer faces murder charges after he went after another online player — by flying to Florida and attacking him in real life with a hammer. Edward Kang allegedly knew the victim from ArcheAge, a Korean role-playing game, and...
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Behold Sony's PVM-4300, a menacingly-large cathode ray tube television manufactured by the company in 1989. They exported 20 to the United States, writes David L. Farquhar, "just in time for the recession." Sony's part number suggests it has a 45 in...
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Until a certain point in the late 2000s, Tetris would have officially been 39 years old this year. But now it's 40 years old, according to the attendant celebrations, promotions and earned media. What's the deal? Time Extension's Damien McFerran inve...
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I love these old VHS tapes of Jordan Mechner's brother David, then 15 years old, performing the moves that would end up as the smoothly-animated Prince of Persia. [via The Verge] https://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/mechner.mp4 Mec...