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You can get this 24kt gold NES system for $5K

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 4, 2016
1 min

Analogue is selling a new version of the Nintendo Entertainment System, circa 1983, with a 24-karat gold housing. It will sell for the low price of $5,000. And the company will only make 10 of the classic consoles.

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The Legend of Zelda becomes 3D in your browser

Posted byby Mike Minotti
April 4, 2016
1 min

This could help brighten up a nostalgic gamer’s Monday morning. Two Zelda fans, Scott Lininger and Mike Magee, have re-created the original Nintendo Entertainment...

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An interview with a Microsoft HoloLens true believer

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 4, 2016
12 min

Michael Hoffman is a true believer when it comes to the potential of Microsoft’s HoloLens holographic glasses technology. So much so that he quit...

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Uncharted 4’s Madagascar shows the heavy influence of The Last of Us

Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes
April 4, 2016
5 min

For his last hurrah, Nathan Drake is getting some help from an unlikely ally. The jovial treasure hunter has been the star of the...

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The boomerang kid: Rob Glaser on his return to RealNetworks and what’s next

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 4, 2016
6 min

The most surprising fact about video and music streaming pioneer RealNetworks more than 22 years after its founding is that the Seattle-based company still...

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Watch us play Lucky’s Tale in virtual reality with the Oculus Rift

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 3, 2016
1 min

Virtual reality is giving players a more immersive connection to video game worlds, and one of the best early examples of this is an Oculus Rift...

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Microsoft game chief Phil Spencer on openness, HoloLens, and Xbox 1.5

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 3, 2016
24 min

Microsoft has had its fair share of criticism about its platform strategy. Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, recently blasted Microsoft’s commitment to an open...

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How to get the Oculus Rift working with SteamVR right now

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 3, 2016
2 min

The Oculus Rift now works with Steam. Valve, the company that owns and operates the world’s most popular digital-distribution portal for PC games, has updated its SteamVR software to work with Oculus VR’s Rift virtual reality headset.