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The Nintendo Famicom Controller

Before the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) hit the states, Nintendo had a console in Japan that would start a revolution of gaming. It was called the Famicom, or the full name, Family Computer. In 1983, the console hit the homes of gamers in Japan and test the waters of this new generation of console gaming. …

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New Blood boss Dave Oshry ‘quadruples down’ on supporting GOG after worrying about its future, committing to sales, demos, one-click mods, plus day-and-date releases alongside Steam

After expressing worry about the future health of games storefront GOG in an RPG Site interview, New Blood CEO Dave Oshry has recommitted to supporting the platform, including fuller parity with the Steam releases of its games. GOG’s clear remit⁠—offering the titular “good old games” you can’t get elsewhere⁠—has been long been challenged by Steam’s…

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Retro Review: Fort Apocalypse for the C64

Fort Apocalypse Title Screen Early in my video gaming life, one of the first computer games I ever played was Dan Gorlin’s classic Choplifter on my cousin’s Apple II. The simple presentation, on that glowing monochrome green CRT, was instantly addictive. When we got our Commodore 64 some time later, it was one of the…

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Man pleads guilty to generating songs with AI then having bots stream them ‘billions of times’ to make over $8 million in royalties

Have you ever stumbled onto an extremely popular artist that you’ve never heard of before, just to wonder if you’re so out of touch that a global phenomenon could pass you by? Well, in at least one recent case, there was a ‘musician’ with billions of streams that basically all came from bots—and if that…

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Mega Crit responds to the panic over Slay the Spire 2’s 1st balance pass, saying these changes are ‘the first of many’: ‘No change is necessarily permanent’

Slay the Spire 2 has been raking in the dough and enjoying all sorts of positive feedback, but the precarious thing about making something people love is that the minute you change it, you’re messing with that thing people love. Developer Mega Crit experienced this last week when its first balance changes incurred the collective…

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