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“Is This My NES’ Final Form?” – Retro Gamer Shows Off The Most Pimped-Out Nintendo Entertainment System You’ve Ever Seen

The ultimate NES for 2026. One of the things I really love about modern-day retro gaming is the sheer number of aftermarket hardware upgrades available for systems that are now decades old. From updated power supplies to improved AV connectivity and the ability to load games via SD cards, the world of retrofitted upgrades is…

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Forget about PCs or LLMs, Micron says driverless cars and humanoid bots will soon be gobbling up 300 GB of RAM per device

As if there wasn’t already preposterous levels of demand for computer memory, Micron has identified two new classes of device that will soon be gobbling up RAM in huge quantities. Apparently, both autonomous cars and humanoid robots will need hundreds of gigabytes of the stuff. Speaking during Micron’s recent earnings call with Wall Street’s best…

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Phoenix Wright Has Been Demade For The Game Boy

Features the entire first case. 2bitcrook has (partly) remade Capcom’s Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney for the original monochrome Game Boy. The popular series started life on the Game Boy Advance in Japan, making this unofficial port a fitting tribute to the franchise, in a fashion. Read the full article on timeextension.com Features the entire first…

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Clair Obscur’s narrative lead says while it’s ‘a painful process’ to write, AI has never tempted her: ‘The whole point of writing is to express what I have in my head’

One of the most irritating facets of the AI hullabaloo—as someone moderately invested in making things—is the assertion that AI finally ‘unlocks creatives to make bigger, better things’ or some other codswallop. Bah, I say—the truth being that creative arts like writing, drawing, painting, or acting are immensely complicated professions, and when I look at…

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Asus ROG Strix XG27JCG review

The last time I gamed on a 4K 27-inch display, what I really wanted were even more pixels. Over eight million obviously just ain’t enough. Actually, no I absolutely didn’t. But the new Asus ROG Strix XG27JCG is giving them to me anyway, all 15 million of tiny RGB suckers thanks to a 5K native…

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Arc Raiders devs wanted to make it an adventure game more than a shooter: ‘We saw more potential in allowing players to explore rather than just shoot’

Until Arc Raiders pivoted away from being a solely PvE boss fight race, production director Caio Braga said in a recent GDC talk that no one could really describe what the game was: “You’d ask someone who would say it was a battle royale versus Arc, or it’s a co-op Shadow of the Colossus game,…

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