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[VIDEO] Nostalgia Time: The NYC Wii Launch, 2006

We might not be able to cover the Wii U launch this year, so here’s a little low-res nostalgia. See what it looked like when Austin, Al, Ethan and Tony visited Toys R’ Us and The Nintendo World Store in

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[VIDEO] In Assassin’s Creed III, Horses Mate With Their Troughs

From the “Buggy Videogame Animations Are Fun” department:    

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[VIDEO] Windows 8 Won’t Obliterate Steam Or Eat Your Face

Gabe Newell called Windows 8 a “catastrophe”, and with what look to be two OS’es slapped into one and the fear of a walled-garden approach mounting, it seemed like he was right. But perhaps this comment also set off some

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[VIDEO] A Quick n’ Dirty Dive into Chaos Rings (Android)

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Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant – Will all of your games survive?

Remember when upgrading from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 or XP was a daunting task, requiring you to run through a gigantic online list of what applications–and of course, more importantly, games–would and would not work with the new OS?

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Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII — 20 Entertaining Hours of Boredom (Review)

Love it or hate it, Final Fantasy VII was a landmark title for Squaresoft, the Playstation platform, and videogames in general. It set a standard for communicating story through high production values and connecting its players to its characters. Cloud,

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Games I’ll Never Play Again: Chrono Trigger

GINPA is a recurring column in which the author discusses a single-player game he views favorably, but has no desire to ever re-play after finishing it. Back in 1995 I owned Chrono Trigger for the Super NES and played the

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Android Jelly Bean: Usable on the Droid Bionic

Last week, I wrote about how my summer ROM flashing adventures breathed new life into my Droid Bionic, a phone that has gotten a “raw deal”–as admitted, word for word, by Motorola Mobility’s VP for product management, Punit Soni. As I

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Coffee Ramble.

Al and Austin typically email about random games, tech, and their respective daily news topics as a morning ritual for sanity’s sake. Here’s their vomit for November 16th, 2012 (reverse chronological order).

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Motorola Lapdock (for Droid BIONIC)

One of the features touted for Motorola Android phones that were released between Fall 2011 and mid-2012–the Droid Bionic and the Droid Razr iterations–was Webtop, software which allowed for the phone to run in a barebones “Desktop” mode when connected

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