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Dr. Ed Roberts, ‘Father of the PC’, Dies at 68
In 1975, Popular Electronics featured on its January cover a computer kit built for home enthusiasts, touted to cost at least $1,000 less than anything else. It was the Altair 8800. Its creator, Dr. Ed Roberts, died Thursday. Roberts’ creation is widely credited with kicking off the microcomputing boom of the latter quarter of the…
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No New Titles for Game Room Until Late April
New games will be added to the Xbox Live Game Room on a weekly basis – but those updates won’t begin until late April, according to a community manager in an official forum. That’s disappointing news for those anyone popped into Game Room after it launched last week, demoed a few free games and then…
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Snoopy Flying Ace: High Road To Reminiscence
A brief hands-on with upcoming Xbox Live Arcade air combat game Snoopy Flying Ace at PAX East made me realize how badly I missed playing Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge. Snoopy Flying Ace, developed by Smart Bomb Interactive, is the follow-up to Snoopy vs. the Red Baron, a dog-fighting (sorry!) game for the PlayStation…
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Crackdown 2 Multiplayer Preview: I Don’t Have Your Goddamned Orb
It’s hard to get an accurate feel for the Rocket Tag online multiplayer mode for Crackdown 2 when every time I try to get a word in edgewise – oh dammit I’m dead. That’s pretty much how my ten minute session of Rocket Tag went down. I slipped into one of the last rounds of…
By Mike Fahey
