Enlarge / If you’re unfamiliar with the name, “Atari 2600,” fellow kids, have a gander at this piece of hardware. (It actually worked, promise.) Wahyu Ichwandardi / Getty Images reader comments 62 with 46 posters participating Share this story The following excerpt comes from Arcade Perfect: How Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat, and Other Coin-Op Classics Invaded ..
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reader comments 13 with 12 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] There’s a new Midnight Society of scary storytellers in the Nickelodeon reboot of Are You Afraid of the Dark. Hot on the heels of this summer’s adaptation of Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark, Nickelodeon has dropped the first trailer for its ..
Enlarge / Settle in, grab some popcorn, and enjoy the game. Aurich Lawson / Getty reader comments 292 with 168 posters participating, including story author Share this story Last week, the team behind Death Stranding discussed the game’s “Very Easy Mode” publicly for the first time. The mode, according to Director Hideo Kojima’s assistant Ayako Terashima, ..
Enlarge / Björk’s metamorphosis within VR already looks trippy enough as a sample image. It’ll blow your mind in VR. reader comments 58 with 46 posters participating, including story author Share this story “I often feel like some sort of [technology] bridge,” singer, songwriter, artist, and producer Björk tells me over the telephone from her ..
Enlarge / UK Parliament sends a clear signal: loot boxes in series like FIFA are on notice. EA / Machkovech reader comments 82 with 64 posters participating, including story author Share this story Video game loot boxes View more stories UK Parliament published a wide-ranging inquiry on Thursday looking into the rise of “immersive and ..
Enlarge / Mitchell rides an oversized Donkey Kong machine in the Citrus Bowl parade. reader comments 132 with 91 posters participating, including story author Share this story Competitive video gamer Billy Mitchell is threatening “legal recourse” against Guinness World Records and the Twin Galaxies scoreboard if they don’t retract “defamatory statements” against him and reinstate ..
reader comments 4 with 4 posters participating Share this story Say hello to the Vive Cosmos, HTC’s first PC-VR headset with inside-out tracking. Sam Machkovech Dummy head not included with the $699 retail price. Also not included: any extra lighthouse tracking boxes. It’s all inside-out tracking! Sam Machkovech That inside-out tracking is fueled by an ..
reader comments 164 with 118 posters participating Share this story Major gaming retailer GameStop says it will be closing “between 180 and 200 underperforming stores” in the next six months. That statement comes following 195 store closures in the last 12 months and what the company says it expects will be “a much larger tranche ..
reader comments 117 with 74 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Aquaman star Jason Momoa plays the lead role in See, a new sci-fi series on Apple TV Plus. At today’s Apple event, Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced the first trailer for See, an original 10-episode sci-fi series for the company’s forthcoming streaming service, ..
reader comments 26 with 24 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] A grown-up Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) must face the ghosts of his childhood to defeat a new evil in Doctor Sleep. Fans of the 1980 film The Shining will be going back to the Overlook Hotel with a grown Danny Torrance in Doctor ..
