An attempt at a modern Commodore 64 (C-64) computer and gaming handheld was revealed this morning on Indiegogo, ahead of what was previously supposed to be an April 19th announcement. Headed by a company called Retro Games Ltd., who are out of Knaresborough, United Kingdom, the plans are to release...
Thanks to NeoGAF for the heads-up on an as-of-yet unconfirmed report that Nintendo will officially be ceasing production of the Wii U by the end of this year. This follows several months of "stock shortages" in Japan, as well as the official end of production for select Wii U accessories. As...
Both Sony and Microsoft have been dropping hints about potential hardware upgrades, and as usual where there are those types of hints, there's probably some substance to it. This of course got the community in a tizzy, and conjured the expected comparisons to Sega's dalliances in the 1990s with the Sega...
Prior to the early 2011 release of the Nintendo 3DS, I predicted that I thought it would sell well, but, thanks to a variety of factors, wouldn't sell anywhere near to the heights reached by its record-setting predecessor, the DS. The main factor of course in not being able to...
Some individuals, pundits, and other factions within our videogame, computer, and technology community seem to want to liken the latest explosion in Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) consumer technology to 3D technology that was in seemingly every new television of recent vintage as the next...
Legal Emulation While emulation is a murky legal issue, there are plenty of legitimate ways of playing older games thanks to official emulation. One of the best and brightest ways to access classic games is Nintendo's Virtual Console, part of Nintendo's online store that uses software emulation allowing older titles...
In Time's recent article, 14 Things Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima Told Us, additional vague details about Nintendo's forthcoming NX platform and what it means for Nintendo's current platforms have come to light. Unfortunately, there's still no clear picture of exactly what the NX platform is going to be. I've discussed...
This is part four of my attempt to build the original Kickstarter version of the Pimorini Picade (Maxi version). Part three is here. As we left off, I was going to hook up the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B and get RetroPie on a microSD card and go from there....
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