Category: video games
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Build Your Own 1/10th of a Pinball Cabinet
Jeremy Williams has an awesome guide up on Tested for building the first eight inches of a pinball cabinet, suitable for playing pinball in VR, and this video below demonstrates an older version of it in action: It’s a pretty great build, even has an accelerometer for tilting the table.
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Disney Infinity’s End
Disney is getting out of the business of making games, again. Disney Infinity developer, Avalanche Software (not Avalanche Studios, the developer of Just Cause and other games) is shutting down as they release two final expansions to the toys to life game with Star Wars, Marvel, and other characters this June. I just got a Disney…
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Geforce GTX 1080 and 1070
Watching the Nvidia announcements today on their Twitch channel was mind-bogglingly boring. Here’s the important parts: The Geforce GTX 1080 and 1070 were announced. The 1080 will cost $600 and be available in some special Founder’s Edition for $700 when it is released on the 27th. The GTX 1070 is about a million times more…
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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Announcement Trailer
Speaking of which, here’s the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare announcement trailer. It features the worst cover of a David Bowie song I’ve ever heard. In the year he died, why not pay out the bucks and license the real thing instead? Awful. At least it has something closer to gameplay footage, but the Modern…
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Battlefield 1’s Announcement Trailer
It’s difficult to write about today’s Battlefield 1 announcement. What DICE showed today was a completely computer-generated trailer. It does promise new biplanes, airships, sea ships, horses, multi-position bombers, flamethrowers, swords, and slap flights with shovels. But without any gameplay footage, it’s hard to say what we can actually expect from the finished product when…