Author: Jack Slater
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Washinton D.C. is Shutting Down The City’s Largest Shelter to Make Way for Rich People
This shelter doesn’t sound spectacular, but the space provided opportunities for the 239 families living there to have fun activities that won’t be possible elsewhere. Splinter’s Emma Roller: …over the past seven years, the families and organizations that operate within the shelter have created a makeshift community of their own. This is what happens when…
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The Steam Link is Getting Usurped by Apps
Valve is releasing Steam Link apps for iOS and Android sometime during the week of the 21st of May. They’ll stream games to your device or TV from a host computer just like the Steam Link box does. Valve says that these apps will support a few different types of controllers including Apple’s MFI standard,…
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Parappa The Rapper on PS4 is Actually a PSP Emulator
I’ll probably never use it, because I don’t jailbreak modern consoles, but it’s an impressive discovery by KiiWii on the GBA Temp forums (via Wololo) that the Parappa The Rapper remaster for the PlayStation 4 is actually a PlayStation Portable emulator with special features. Those features let the developers replace the textures in an emulated…
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Epic Sues 14 Year Old Fortnite Cheater
Sarah Jeong has an article up about Epic suing a 14 year old cheater in their free-to-play game Fortnite. It’s absolutely twisted that a business can sue anyone for cheating in a video game. It’s slightly more understandable to get litigious with people making and selling cheats, but then Epic should really just strengthen their…
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The Oculus Go
Adi Robertson has a review up of the $200 Oculus Go, a VR HMD with a built-in old-ass (seriously, it’s from 2016) smartphone chipset for people without a Samsung phone: The Oculus Go improves on the Gear VR in one big way: you don’t need a high-end Samsung phone to use it, so the headset…