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8BitDo Gave the NEOGEO CD’s Gamepad a Wireless Upgrade and Recreated Its Uniquely Clicky Joystick
8BitDo’s wireless-ification of classic video game controllers continues with a new wire-free version of a gamepad that is still divisive amongst retro gaming fans. Unlike other recent recreations, 8BitDo went to great lengths to ensure its NEOGEO CD Wireless Controller still included a joystick relying on microswitches that creates a distinct click sound and feel…
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An Angry Birds Cafe Is Opening in New York as the Game Craters
It wasn’t the hardware that made the iPhone a hit, or even iOS, it was the potential unlocked by the introduction of the App Store, and one of the earliest must-have apps for Apple’s smartphone was a game about slingshotting enraged fowl that, almost 14 years later, will be the branding focus of a new…
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Brilliantly Modded Game Boy Camera is No Bigger Than a Cartridge
Twenty-five years after the Game Boy Camera first debuted back in 1998, fans are not only still enjoying lo-fi, black and white, pixelated photography, they’re also re-engineering the camera to make it better, even going so far as to shrink it down to the size of a regular Game Boy cartridge.
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Sony’s Smartphone Motion Tracking System Will Be Available to Americans for $US449
After debuting in Japan, earlier this year, Sony is finally ready to bring Mocopi — the company’s smartphone-based wearable motion-tracking system — to the U.S., and while it arrives with a slight price bump, it’s still a far more affordable alternative to building an entire mocap studio or surrounding a room in sensors. Motion capture,…