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    Fighting to Play: The History of the Longest Lived Fighting Game Tournament in the World

    Once a year they come to Las Vegas. Not to party. Not to compete. Not even to play Street Fighter.

    Perhaps they don't even realize it, but these few, these champions of a dying bit of pop culture, come to Las Vegas to scream into the approaching long night of arcade gaming.

    Each year EVO gathers the best among fighting gamers to celebrate arcade culture, to stave off, at least for one week, the creeping death that has turned arcades into family fun centers, filled 7-Elevens with console games and not cabinets, swept public gaming from the face of America.

    "Arcades have gone away but the culture is not gone," said Seth Killian, one of the group's founders. " It was such a great experience that we’re not willing to say it’s gone." More »

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    8:00 AM on Mon Oct 6 2008
    By Brian Crecente
    15,519 views, 110 comments

    Most discussed Alchemistmerlin: I always love people swooning over the "golden days when arcades were big!". Nostalgia over a business model designed to rip more »

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    Evo: Phase One To Contend In Upcoming Console War!

    Finally... a console more expensive than the PS3! Envizions Computer Entertainment sent us the press release, announcing Evo: Phase One, a 'next generation media hub' that "allows customers to pause, rewind and record live TV, store family photos, play 3D PC games, and access console like applications." Stats? More »

    11:39 AM on Wed Jul 12 2006
    By brownlee
    2,533 views, 27 comments

    Latest by chef: "The Sapphire RADEON X1600 Pro has 12 pixel pipelines that provides the highest graphics performance in its class..." "in its class" more »

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