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Game Over, Yuzu: Nintendo Switch Emulator Will Shut Down and Pay $2.4 Million
Nintendo has a history of not just stopping video game pirates, but ruining their lives. The Mario maker sued Yuzu, a notorious free emulator of the Nintendo Switch just last week. On Monday, the developers behind Yuzu agreed to shut down the website entirely and pay Nintendo $US2.4 million dollars, according to court documents. Citra,…
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What Does It Take to Make the Criterion Collection of Video Games?
If you want to watch the famously bad 1956 Sci-Fi film Plan 9 from Outer Space, you have several options on both free and paid streaming services. The film has been archived, restored, and documented by people who care about the history of cinema. The same can’t be said about the similarly horrible 1993 Atari…
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Relive the ’90s With These Web-Based Mac Emulators
Back in the ‘90s, you needed to have powerful hardware to use an operating system as advanced as, oh, Mac OS 8. Nowadays, you can run the whole thing in a Chrome tab. It’s easy to forget just how far computers have come in a relatively short time. In case you want a quick reminder,…
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Microsoft’s Phil Spencer Wants the Gaming Industry to Embrace Game Preservation Through Emulation
Replaying the favourite video games of your youth isn’t as easy as re-reading a loved book or re-watching a movie you’ve already seen 100 times. And Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of Gaming, thinks that’s a problem the games industry needs to address by embracing emulation with open arms.