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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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Confirmed: The Best Final Fantasy Is Coming To The PlayStation Network
After a couple of weeks’ worth of teasing, Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada confirmed during a brief Twitter video that the best Final Fantasy game ever created will soon be released on the PlayStation Network. Just in case any of you forgot which Final Fantasy was the best, it was of course, Final Fantasy IX…
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Time Readers: Penny Arcade Creators More Influential Than Obama, But Not Lady Gaga
In the race to determine Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, readers rank Penny Arcade’s Gabe and Tycho just above President Barack Obama, but they’ve got a ways to go before catching up to Lady Gaga. Every year, Time polls its readers on the artists, leaders, and innovators they believe are the…
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Split/Second Tears The Hell Out Of Downtown
Can you imagine how much creating a television show set that looked like this would cost if Split/Second was a real reality television show? More than I have in my pocket right now, I’d daresay. And that’s being conservative. Say what you will about Disney’s Split/Second – it does one of the core things I…
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PAX East Is Over, Time To Register For PAX West 2010
It seems like only five days ago that the inaugural PAX East came to a close, and now pre-registration for PAX…West? Just PAX? What the hell do we call it now? Anyway, you can buy tickets now. It looks like the official PAX website is referring to the Seattle branch of Penny Arcade’s annual convention…
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Free Realms Reaches 10 Million Users, Gives Out Free Cash
Free Realms continues to be an unrelenting engine of family-friendly fun and frivolity, reaching the 10 million player mark just short of its first birthday, with Sony Online Entertainment doubling Station Cash purchases this weekend in celebration. We’ve established by now that people love mini-games and free things, and that’s pretty much the formula to…
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A Flying Hamster Shooting Beer – Is This The Best Game Ever Created?
The Game Atelier’s upcoming PSP shooter The Flying Hamster features a hamster shooting sunflower seeds, fire, eggs, bananas, bees, and beer at enemies like pistol-packing penguins and milk-shooting cows. Fall in love with the first gameplay videos here. To be honest here, I’m a fan of anything that contains hamsters. I love those little bastards,…
By Mike Fahey
