Category: video games
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Ben Heck Attempts to Repair The Nintendo Playstation Prototype
In part one, Ben Heck opened up the Nintendo Playstation prototype, in this part he’s attempting to repair the device. It’s fascinating to watch Ben Heck work through the problems of this old prototype.
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Halo Graphics Boards and Nvidia’s Bungled 10-series Launch
Nvidia just started shipping the GTX 1060 for about $300, the lowest-priced card in their 10 series, and now they’ve announced the new generation of Titan X at $1200. With cars the “halo” model is one that nobody is ever going to buy, but it’s designed to appeal to car enthusiasts and bring them in the showroom…
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Ben Heck’s Hands-On With The Nintendo Playstation Prototype
Ben Heck met with and interviewed the people who found a prototype of the original Playstation. That was actually going to be a joint project between Sony and Nintendo where Sony would develop the hardware and Nintendo the software for a CD add-on to the Super Nintendo. The partnership didn’t work out between the two companies,…
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Advice for the Developers of Pokémon Go
My old colleague, and current game consultant, Wes Leviton gave some free advice to Niantic, the developers of Pokémon Go on Gamesindustry.biz. Wes (and I for a short time) worked on a game called Life is Crime that was similar to Pokémon Go, though it was somewhat closer to Foursquare (now Swarm) in that you…
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Quadrilateral Cowboy Out Next Week, The 25th
Blendo Games’ Brendon Chung has done some wacky fun games in the past, and his next opus Quadrilateral Cowboy has been in the works for what feels like forever. Chung calls it a “…cyberpunk heist adventure…” I’m very excited to see that it’ll be out next week on Windows via Steam, and will have Mac and…