Growing Up Geek: Alexis Santos

Source: Engadget

Welcome to Growing Up Geek , an ongoing feature where we take a look back at our youth and tell stories of growing up to be the nerds that we are. Today, we have our new editor, Alexis Santos . Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted something emblazoned ...
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Adventures in Avengers Video Games Part 2 - Captain America and The Avengers: The NES Platformer

Source: About.com: Classic Video Games

Oh Snap! Iron Man and The Vision have been kidnapped, leaving the two least powerful members of The Avengers for players to control in an old-school style Nintendo Entertainment System platformer that shares the same name as the 4-player arcade beat-'em ...
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Which Company Has Contributed More to Gaming: Sony or Nintendo?

Source: Slashgear

In the gaming industry, two companies have come to define old and new: Nintendo and Sony . With Mario, Zelda, Metroid, and countless gamer-friendly devices, Nintendo has become the old school gamer’s favorite. The game company hasn’t lost sight o ...
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The Game Gallery in Easton offers gamers blasts from the past

Source: LehighValleyLive.com

Donald Steinmetz was looking to parlay his love of video games in a way that other gamers could relive the early adventures of Mario, Luigi, Link, Sonic the Hedgehog and others. So he, along with his friend Matthew Elli ...
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Father-son repair business keeps vintage electronics humming for dedicated owners

Source: Herald & Review

DECATUR — When it comes to electronics repair, there are handymen, and then there are Decatur’s Ishee boys. The father-and-son duo behind Mound Road’s Video Products Repair shop have fixed nearly every device ...
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How-To: XBMC 11 the XBMCbuntu way

Source: Engadget HD

For all intents and purposes, the original Xbox, with its NVIDIA GPU, 8-10GB hard disk and custom Pentium III processor was a high-end PC for its time -- albeit, one that connected to a television. What Microsoft didn't realize ba ...
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What If Shigeru Miyamoto Had Become a Manga Artist?

Source: 1up.com

I t's kind of a fascinating story really. Shigeru Miyamoto, maybe the most influential designer ever, had little interest in videogames until the late 1970s, when he played Space Invaders . Up until that point, he had wanted to be a manga artist. W ...
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BFI London Film Festival Announces New Approach

Source: Indie Wire

NEW DIRECTION FOR 56th BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL in Partnership with American Express FESTIVAL DIRECTOR CLARE STEWART INTRODUCES COMPETITION SECTIONS AND NEW PROGRAMMING APPROACH New partnership with Nintendo ...
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Listen: 8-Bit Versions Of Radiohead's "OK Computer" And "Kid A"

Source: Complex

In what has to be the most random, albeit awesome, music-related news of the day, someone has created 8-bit versions of two Radiohead albums. It essentially sounds like the British band wrote and recorded ...
Full article at: Complex  More like this  4 days ago, 3:46pm CDT