Author: Jack Slater
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Economy Takes the Controls From Some Video-Game Pros – NYTimes.com
The nytimes has an article about pro-gamers going retail and finding real jobs due to sponsors dropping them in this economic downturn. Above is depicted Emmanuel Rodriguez who had to go back to working at Sam’s Club after his sponsors dropped him and more than 100 other players who were getting a salary plus tournament…
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Goozex on the iPhone
As awesome as Goozex is, the new iPhone application leaves a lot to be desired. Namely, their implementation of the token system Goozex uses to identify you as a proper user for API access is incredibly poor. Once you launch the application you’re presented with the screen depicted to the right, which is OK if…
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Johnny Lee’s Head Tracking VR Tech
This is super old, but I found it via a friend recently and hadn’t seen the video:
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The Dallas Morning News with Gamestop’s Refurb Facility Pictoral
The Dallas Morning News has what turns out to be a rather compelling look inside a gamestop refurb facility.
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Wolfenstein 3D and the Pirates of Cydia.
One of the problems with releasing your source code with your data is when people stab you in the back for doing so. Soon, my next set of iPhone game reviews will go up on AtomicGamer, including Wolfenstein 3D Classic. While investigating the game for review, I came across a version on the Jailbroken iPhone…