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Gaming’s Slingbox Backed By $1M Funding
2:00AM Brian Crecente | Announced earlier this week, Spawn Labs version of the Slingbox for gamers is backed by $US1 million in Series A round funding, according to the Austin Business Journal. More »
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Augmented Reality Game Fights Zombies With Skittles
2:40AM Mike Fahey
The Georgia Tech Augmented Environments Lab has come up with a game that combines the joy of shooting zombies with the deliciousness of Skittles. More »
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Some Wet, Well-Lit CryEngine 3 Demo Footage
11:00PM Luke Plunkett
Crysis and Far Cry developers Crytek don’t just make games. They make game engines. And their latest engine is the CryEngine 3, which struts its stuff in the above video. More »
Yahoo! Names Rock Band 2 One of the Best Tech of 2008, Blu-Ray One of the Worst
6:40AM Brian Crecente | Yahoo! Tech writer Christopher Null listed Rock Band 2 among his personal eight best tech products of 2008. More »
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Gamer Builds Extremely Ugly Gameboy-Sized NES Portable
5:00AM Mike Fahey | While I’ve long been a supporter of the custom console movement, sometimes I see a project that really makes me wonder what the point is. Take this portable, Gameboy-sized NES, based off of a Super Joy III Nintendo clone. Sure, it’s slightly smaller than the original Gameboy and contains 72 built-in games, but oh my god is it hideous to look at. “But it’s all about the convenience!” you say? I have at least five devices within my reach that are smaller, prettier, and more than capable of tackling an 8-bit Nintendo title should I deem it necessary. More »
