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NES cartridge made into NES console

Why? Why not. This is how it was done: Instructables user dany32412 pulled an Xzibit, he built a Nintendo NES system into an old school NES Cartridge.  Inspired by Kotomi who completed a similar project, he sourced a NES On A Chip (NOAC), a cloned consol which is essentially a fully functional Ninte

Pokémon, the horror story

It’s time to break out your DS flash cart or emulator and play the homebrew ghost story Pokémon (Creepy) Black. You could read most of it here, but I found it far more creepy using the DS game retelling. In true ghost story tradition, the game’s gradual unfolding is part of what makes it creepy, so

A metagame about playing JS Joust

Pippin Barr, the man behind Pongs and this article about sadist Pong, has made a game about playing the game Johann Sebastian Joust called Ludwig Von Beatdown. If you can’t make it to one of those artsy conventions, you can play at home! …kind of.

The dance marathon of video games raises over $1.5 million

Extra Life is a nonprofit that holds an annual 24 hour gaming marathon for charity. With the help of Twitch, a gaming entertainment service, they have set a fundraising record. The Twitch community has managed to raise more than $1.5 million for the Extra Life 2012 charity, which is set to see thous

Our Picks for Your Fall Sports Videogame Lover

It’s fall. That means you’ve nestled up on your sofa, arranged the magazines on your coffee table in a visually-acceptable arrangement, and will now spend the next dozen consecutive weekends glued to your television. You will be watching sports, playing video games, or hopefully doing things that in

Used game market boosts new game market

A business school professor at NYU predicts that, without the option to sell back a game, not as many people would buy it new. Price Charting summarizes how the study’s simulation of how the absence of a used market would impact the new game market: Because gamers who buy new games no longer have th

Dishonored began with no plot, just a world

Dishonored started with art and went from there, no plot, just an idea of what the world was going to be (a fact which our reviewer discovered on Monday). With Viktor Antonov, the guy who brought us the design of City 17, leading the charge, it doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. Antonov and Sebastia

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