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Mega (Rock) Man – by Noah LaPointe

Gamers wouldn’t know which sequence they’d play until it began, and the unveiled info was only useful after a lost life returned them to the menu. By comparison, the freedom of choice in Mega Man allowed struggling players the opportunity to gain an advantage by prioritizing the levels they found easiest. The structure of Mega…

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Interviews: “All The Risky Stuff Is Basically Ticked” – We Spoke To The Developer Of The Ambitious Neo Geo-“First” Party Game, ‘Overserved’

“We don’t anticipate problems from any of the platforms.”. Overserved: Food Fighters is undoubtedly one of the more curious Neo Geo titles in recent memory. Though on the surface it may look like a fairly straightforward party game inspired by titles like Saturn Bomberman, behind the scenes, it is shaping up to be one of…

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‘We would need to shut off power for half the country’: Microsoft’s $1 billion Kenya data center project runs out of juice

Plans to build potentially the biggest, most expensive data centre in East Africa have stalled. Sources close to the matter say that talks between the Kenyan government and Microsoft have broken down due to disagreements over annual payments. Microsoft and its partners had wanted the Kenyan government to agree to pay annually for capacity, but…

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Framework says DDR5 memory costs ‘remain fairly stable’ but ‘on SSDs, the pricing story is unfortunately not as positive’ as it raises prices again

Modular laptop company Framework has some good news and some bad news. The good news is that memory costs from suppliers have reportedly remained steady over the past few months. The bad news is that it’s all outta storage and has to buy new stuff at inflated prices. “We’ve seen memory costs on DDR5 suppliers…

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