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  • UberNES may be the greatest screen saver since Johnny Castaway

    UberNES may be the greatest screen saver since Johnny Castaway

    Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Be still my beating heart. The UberNES Nintendo Screen Saver displays a grid of multiple working NES games when your computer is idle. Leave it be, and you’ll see all the various demos running at once. Hit the spacebar and you can actually start playing the games. Tears of joy, my friends. Tears of joy.

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  • The That’s Incredible! Video Game Invitational: This is what we used to watch

    The That’s Incredible! Video Game Invitational: This is what we used to watch

    Posted on July 29, 2009 | No Comments
    This was considered some heady stuff back in the day. That’s Incredible! was a show that featured “incredible things:” kids who could paint pretty pictures, interesting science junk, etc. But this takes the cake. I totally remember this episode and this is probably the best example of proto-games journalism you’ll ever see. PLUS this thing [...]

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  • Is the recession causing people to play more and more video games?

    Is the recession causing people to play more and more video games?

    Posted on July 7, 2009 | No Comments
    It seems gamers are playing the likes of Guitar Hero and Wii Whatever more hours per week than ever before. Is that the recession's fault? Maybe! Back in January, gamers were playing video games for an average of nearly 19 hours per week. In 2006, that number was just shy of 15 hours per week.

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  • iPhone App Roundup: America, F&$% yeah! edition

    iPhone App Roundup: America, F&$% yeah! edition

    Posted on July 4, 2009 | No Comments
    Ahh, 4th of July. A welcome day off work in the midst of summer. Seems like everyone’s on vacation these days and that means grueling airplane rides and long road trips with the family. If you aren’t lucky enough to be on JetBlue or Virgin, you’re probably stuck without in-flight entertainment, meaning you’ve got nothing [...]

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  • IPhone 3GS Handsets Overheat, Turn Brown

    IPhone 3GS Handsets Overheat, Turn Brown

    Posted on June 29, 2009 | No Comments
    The iPhone 3G may, at least for some users, have an additional, undocumented feature: It can be used to toast bread. Reports are coming in that the new, million-selling iPhone is suffering from overheating issues. The handsets are getting so warm, in fact, that the plastic cases of the white models are discoloring to pink. The [...]

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  • President Obama: Don’t spend all day playing video games; go exercise!

    President Obama: Don’t spend all day playing video games; go exercise!

    Posted on June 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Let's not dwell on this for too long, since it's largely a non-issue. President Obama, speaking to the American Medical Association (mostly about health care, such as it is), listed “video games” as a potential bad guy... for your health. You know, sitting on a couch all day long trying to rack up Achievements.

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