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Magnus Carlsen quit the World Rapid Chess Championship on Friday, reports CNN, “after he refused to change out of the jeans he was wearing…”
“Carlsen, the world champion from 2013 until 2023, allegedly replied, ‘I’m out, f*** you,’ after being inf… Continue reading Magnus Carlsen Quits Chess Tournament After Refusing to Change Out of Jeans
It’s one of the most successful — and oldest — computer games of all-time. This week CBS News Minnesota interviewed Bill Heinemann, who in 1971 co-created “The Oregon Trail” as an educational video game simulating pioneers travelling west.
… Continue reading What ‘The Oregon Trail’ Co-Creator Thinks of Apple’s Plans for a Movie
Back in 1976, Mattel Electronics Auto Race became the very first handheld game to use only solid-state electronics, according to Wikipedia. (Its only mechanical elements were its on/off switch and hand-operated controls…) Nearly half a century goes b… Continue reading Retrocomputing Enthusiast Repairs Mattel’s 48-Year-Old Handheld Videogame
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Months ago, 13-year-old Willis “Blue Scuti” Gibson became the first person to “beat” NES Tetris, crashing the game after a 1,511-line, 157-level performance. Over the weekend, 16-year-old Michael “… Continue reading Teen Achieves First NES Tetris ‘Rebirth,’ Proves Endless Play Is Possible
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Pong will always hold a special place in the history of gaming as one of the earliest arcade video games. Introduced in 1972, it was a table tennis game featuring very simple graphics and gameplay…. Continue reading Hydrogels Can Learn To Play Pong
CNN looks back to when “dial-up internet (and its iconic dial tone) was ‘still a thing…”
“File-sharing services like Napster and LimeWire were just beginning to take off… And in sweaty dorm rooms and sparse basements across the world, people broug… Continue reading New Book Remembers LAN Parties and the 1990s ‘Multiplayer Revolution’
Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov and others spoke at the Game Developers Conference about Tetris Reversed, reports VentureBeat — and told the story of “a lost prototype of a Tetris game that was never published.”
But little did Pajitnov know that… Continue reading ”Tetris Reversed’? Alexey Pajitnov Shows Footage From Rediscovered Prototype for ‘Tetris’ Sequel
“What happens when a loser who needs to win faces a winner who refuses to lose?”
That was the tagline for the iconic 2007 documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, chronicling a middle-school teacher’s attempts to take the Donkey Kong recor… Continue reading Billy Mitchell and Twin Galaxies Settle Lawsuits On Donkey Kong World Records
An 1979 Atari 8-bit system re-released in a tiny form factor? Yep.
Retro Games Ltd. is releasing a “half-sized” version of its very first home computer, the Atari 400, “emulating the whole 8-bit Atari range, including the 400/800, XL and XE series, a… Continue reading Atari Will Release a Mini Edition of Its 1979 Atari 400 (Which Had An 8-Bit MOS 6502 CPU)
15 months ago U.S. grandmaster Hans Niemannn was accused of cheating in a tournament after beating Magnus Carlsen (five-time world chess champion).
Last week a report was finally issued by the world governing body of chess, CNN reports:
FIDE’s report… Continue reading Official Probe Finds Hans Niemann Didn’t Cheat Against Magnus Carlsen