ModRetro finally reveals design for M64 console and controllers
Hot on the heels of the recently released competing retro machine, the Analogue 3D, ModRetro is finally unveiling what the upcoming M64 console and...
ModRetro’s Chromatic brings back Rayman handheld game for 30th anniversary
ModRetro, creator of the ultimate Game Boy-inspired handheld, the Chromatic, is bringing Rayman back in handheld form to celebrate the game’s 30th anniversary—officially launching...
Palmer Luckey’s ModRetro unveils Nintendo 64 clone plans
Palmer Luckey, CEO of Anduril and founder of Oculus, announced that his ModRetro company is making a Nintendo 64 clone machine. In a tweet,...
Hands-on with the newly resupplied ModRetro’s Chromatic | The DeanBeat
ModRetro announced yesterday that its Chromatic handheld game system is back in stock and ready to ship starting at $200. It’s a labor of...
Augmented World Expo 2025 will draw 400 speakers, 6K attendees and 300 global exhibitors
Augmented World Expo 2025 will draw more than 6,000 attendees, 400 speakers and 300 global exhibitors to its event June 10 to June 12...
Can Oculus Quest 2 overcome Facebook’s tarnished reputation?
Calling myself “deeply conflicted” about Facebook’s upcoming standalone VR headset Oculus Quest 2 would be an understatement. My long but imperfect memory can’t recall any...
The DeanBeat: What does video game history mean to you?
I’m about to co-write another video game history book: volume 2 of The Ultimate History of Video Games. My friend Steven Kent wrote the...
Palmer Luckey: I left Facebook enraged, but Zuckerberg is VR’s top backer
Though the exact circumstances of Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey’s March 2017 departure from Facebook have remained somewhat ambiguous, he’s now talking openly about...
Oculus Rift: The inside story
Among journalists, no one has gotten inside the story of the Oculus Rift as much as Blake Harris, who has just published The History...
Blake Harris talk — How ‘The History of the Future’ almost didn’t happen
Blake Harris is a historian of the video game wars. His first book — Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that defined a...