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  • Pinel & Pinel Arcade Trunk Is the Poshest Imaginable Way to Play Space Invaders [Arcade] Friday, July 16, 2010 @ 8:10PM# arcade Calfskin upholstery, chromium plating, premium speakers—not exactly reminiscent of an arcade gaming experience. But if want to ditch your emulator for something a bit more, dare we say, decadent, luxury French cabinet maker Pinel & Pinel will indulge. More »
  • Legacy Games for Nintendo 3DS Thursday, July 15, 2010 @ 8:24PMThis isn't the first 3D system. Let's celebrate with some classic Nintendo ports!
  • 18-button WarMouse Meta, technical expression of insanity Saturday, June 26, 2010 @ 7:37AMSeemingly designed by those who like to snuggle with snapping turtles and incorporate hand grenades into their decor, WarMouse Meta is large and in charge with 18-buttons including a joystick.
  • CESA: 5.2 million illegal downloads of Dissidia: Final Fantasy in Japan Thursday, June 10, 2010 @ 2:40AMSiliconera has some more insight on those Consumer Entertainment Software Association piracy figures , and while the "money lost" totals are still a little inflated (it's very hard to agree with the sentiment that all pirated software would otherwise have been purchased legitimately at full price if not for piracy), the actual downloads are pretty surprising. Dissidia: Final Fantasy is the big ...
  • Hey Apple, Make The iPad Arcade Possible Already [Hacks] Wednesday, June 9, 2010 @ 7:42PM# hacks The iPad, the future of computing , touchscreen this, touchscreen that, yadda yadda, blahblahblah. BLAH. What about connecting it to a joystick to get an instant mini-arcade machine? That's what Hideyoshi Moriya did, using Arduino circuitry and cardboard. Imagine the possibilities: More »
  • 10 Awesome Vintage Video Games You Can Play Online Sunday, May 16, 2010 @ 11:01PMThere’s something about an old video game that does a body good. The 16-color graphics, the 8-bit sound — something about it conjures memories of simpler times, when joysticks seemed larger because our hands were still small, and a dollar seemed like a heck of a lot more money than it does right now. Allow us to take you on a vintage voyage with a time machine of links, if you will. Here are ten ...
  • ThinkGeek’s arcade cabinet turns your iPad into an iCade Friday, April 16, 2010 @ 8:41AMKnowing that many of our loyal geeky customers would eventually get an iPad...
  • Interview: Other Ocean's Mika Talks Dark Void Zero's True Origins Thursday, April 8, 2010 @ 7:59AMDark Void Zero is the DSiWare companion to Capcom-published Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 title Dark Void. Originally, it was pitched to audiences as a game planned for an ancient two-screened arcade system, the PlayChoice-10, which had similar architecture to the NES. An elaborate backstory was created, and Capcom and Other Ocean, the developer of the game, stuck to it carefully, going so far as ...
  • EA’s Battlefield 1943 hits 1 million units sold on XBLA Thursday, April 1, 2010 @ 3:03AMEA's Battlefield 1943 has reached 1 million units sold on Xbox LIVE Arcade, EA studio DICE announced in a press release Monday. The first-person shooter multiplayer game is the fastest title on XBLA to reach the million marker.
  • Microsoft shows off XNA games running on Windows Phone, full 3D is a go Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 8:07PMAlright, we're going to be straight with you: you're not going to like this. See, Microsoft just showed us a pair of 3D games running on its ASUS Windows Phone prototype and built with its brand new XNA Game Studio 4.0 , but wouldn't let us nab a single photo or video of the process. What we can tell you is that they exist, they work, and at least Microsoft tossed us some screenshots to wave in ...
  • Microsoft shows off XNA games running on Windows Phone, full 3D is a go Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 8:07PMAlright, we're going to be straight with you: you're not going to like this. See, Microsoft just showed us a pair of 3D games running on its ASUS Windows Phone prototype and built with its brand new XNA Game Studio 4.0 , but wouldn't let us nab a single photo or video of the process. What we can tell you is that they exist, they work, and at least Microsoft tossed us some screenshots to wave in ...
  • 14 console and PC mods you'll wish you owned Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 8:23AMAs gamers of a hardcore persuasion, we form a very deep bond with our machines. Far more than mere appliances, they're as much part of the family as they are part of our homes' technological landscapes. Millions might be sold, but only one feels uniquely our own.
  • Best of FingerGaming: From Call of Duty to Ravensword Monday, November 23, 2009 @ 3:28PM[We round up sister iPhone site FingerGaming's top news and reviews for Apple's portable games platform, as written by editor in chief Danny Cowan and authors Louise Yang and Jonathan Glover.] This week, FingerGaming covers recent releases like Call of Duty: World at War Zombies and Ravensword, and reviews Earthworm Jim and Earth Dragon. Here are the top stories from the last seven days: - Top ...
  • Beer + Videogames = Kegerator for the Ages Thursday, October 29, 2009 @ 2:46PMPut a kegerator and a classic videogame console into a single container, and what you get is the Arkeg. Wired takes a look in this video review.
  • AdvantageSix launches new VirtualRPC based PC Tuesday, October 27, 2009 @ 5:11AMAnnouncing it as a "new RISC OS machine", which really woke us up this morning, AdvantageSix (better known as STD to RISC OS users) has instead launched the A6 - a WindowsXP PC that employs VirtualRPC-SE to allow RISC OS and RISC OS applications to run on it.
  • Wii Price Cut Takes Aim at Xbox 360, PS3 Thursday, September 24, 2009 @ 12:56AMNintendo lops $50 off the Wii's price tag in the US, effective September 27th.
  • How guilt became part of gaming Sunday, August 30, 2009 @ 9:46AMBreaching the barrier between physical and virtual selves threatens a fundamental part of gaming's appeal I don't know about you, but the last thing I want to see in games is myself. Sadly, it looks as though I am fighting an unstoppable technological tide. At last week's Gamescom, Ubisoft revealed a new fitness game named Your Shape, which it claims is the next generation of physical exercise ...
  • Build Your Own Bartop NES Cabinet Monday, August 24, 2009 @ 2:21PMIf you’ve got a spare PC and 17-inch monitor, why not fashion your own NES bartop cabinet? (more…)
  • Build Your Own Bartop NES Cabinet [DIY] Monday, August 24, 2009 @ 11:31AMIf you've got a spare PC and 17-inch monitor, why not fashion your own NES bartop cabinet? Step-by-step instructions are available over at Instructables, but the end product is a tabletop Nintendo...
  • Get Drunk, Play Street Fighter: The Arkeg Drink-n-Game Wednesday, August 19, 2009 @ 12:44PMThere are very few gadgets out there worth dropping $4000 dollars on. Even for a high-end gaming PC or HD TV, that's pushing it. And yet, I find myself wanting to blow that huge chunk of change on a machine that can only handle 24-bit arcade games. The Ark...
  • GPX2 Wiz – An Amiga, Atari ST, C64 and more in your pocket Wednesday, July 15, 2009 @ 2:11PMOh wow, I really want one of these handhelds. It looks like a retro gamer’s dream. It has emulation software for MAME (retro arcade games), Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore VIC20/64/128, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, NeoGeo and support for Flash based games. The GPX2 Wiz features a QVGA OLED Touch … [visit site [...] Filed in categories: Portable and Console Gaming , Spotlight ...
  • Freeware Friday: Tyrian Friday, July 3, 2009 @ 1:13PMFiled under: Features , Indie , Arcade Welcome to Freeware Friday , a weekly column showcasing excellent games that you can play free of charge! Back in the day, PC gamers had two great shareware shoot-em-ups to choose from: Raptor and Tyrian . While many chose Raptor (whose full name is Raptor: Call of the Shadows ), the clear winner in terms of care and quality is Tyrian . Oozing ...
  • iPhone Commodore 64 Emulator Rejected by Apple Monday, June 22, 2009 @ 7:00AMManomio's C64 emulator for the iPhone is finished but it may never see an App Store release.
  • Commodore 64 iPhone App Finished, But Denied Approval Sunday, June 21, 2009 @ 5:24PMGood news, iPhone owners: Apparently developer Manomio -- the same folks behind the iPhone version of Flashback -- has been secretly at work on a Commodore 64 emulator application, and recently completed the project. But here's the bad news: Apple has rejected it from appearing on the App Store. Interestingly, the Commodore 64 emulator was not rejected for legal reasons; as Touch Arcade reports ...
  • Fully Licensed Commodore 64 Emulator Rejected By Apple App Store [App Store] Sunday, June 21, 2009 @ 3:05PMQuick update on the Apple App Store approval process: Shaken babies are OK, but inevitable moneymakers like a licensed, legal Commodore 64 emulator are rejected. Why the rejection, you ask? Here's...
  • Gaming merger leaves Ghostbusters in limbo Thursday, May 21, 2009 @ 2:03PMOn Tuesday, video game giant Activision Blizzard announced it would be picking up five newly acquired properties as a result of its July merger with Vivendi Games: Crash Bandicoot , Spyro the Dragon , Ice Age , Prototype and one unannounced game.