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Researchers find 87% of U.S. classic video games are out of print and ‘critically endangered’

GeekWire

(Sega Image) A new study found that the vast majority of video games with a physical release in the U.S. In the study, Salvador’s VGHF research team set to find out how many “classic” video games that received an official release in the U.S. Kelsey Lewin, co-director of the Video Game History Foundation. between 1948 (i.e.

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Antstream Arcade will bring cloud gaming service and 1,300 retro titles to Xbox

GeekWire

Antstream Press Image) Cloud gaming company Antstream Arcade announced Friday that it plans to launch on Xbox on July 21, bringing its library of more than 1,300 retro video games to Microsoft’s gaming platform. Both preservation and accessibility are hot topics in the video game industry.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. June 2010: Autonomy acquires CA Technologies’ information governance business. The 2010s: Autonomy’s unravelling September 2010: Ex-SAP CEO Léo Apotheker is named CEO of HP.

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The David After Dentist meme is now an NFT — and yes, this is real life

The Verge

You have four eyes” “I feel funny”), and when he uploaded it to YouTube a few months later — intending to share it with friends and family — the video went viral within a few days. He didn’t get into the latest amounts, but he estimated in a 2010 interview that the family had made $150,000 in merchandise, licensing, and from YouTube revenue.

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You ever think about how Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC”

The Verge

I asked Joanna about this moment in time, and this is what she sent me: “I was basically Bono in this ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’ video. And then the iPad came out in 2010, and netbooks were inexplicably such a part of the computing vocabulary that Steve Jobs introduced the iPad by explicitly saying that netbooks were bad.

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Gaming in 2023: What to expect from Microsoft, Sony, Amazon, Valve, Nintendo, and others

GeekWire

This year started slow in the video game industry, due to a combination of pandemic slowdowns and highly-anticipated titles such as Elden Ring , but it ended with a tidal wave of big releases that seems likely to continue into next year. 2 biggest video game publisher in the world, behind the wildly diversified Tencent.

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- Thanks & Turkeys 2010

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

I and several of my staff walked home five miles in the snowstorm ( video of commuters walking across the West Bridge here ). Some of them are resorting to “compliance audits” to make sure we are paying for every last danged software license we are using.