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Kyle Barr
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Kyle is a Consumer Tech Reporter for Gizmodo, a longtime player of tabletop games and recent dabbler in historical sword fighting.

Pay $200 to play PS5 on a smaller screen and likely with some lag.
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A stupid question, but considering some other details about this thing, maybe it’s not - this will stream PS*4* games from the PS5, right? Or is it locked to only PS5 games? Read more

It certainly seems like the Vita was a learning opportunity thoroughly lost. Read more

Proprietary equipment and no streaming....  Dump those stocks while you can! lol Read more

My original 2600 runs on a modern tv with a $3 adapter from amazon.  Pretty sure it will survive the apocalypse.   Read more

It’s funny that I can find a 5200 to 2600, and 5200 to 7800 adapter, but not the inverse. Read more

The 256MB of internal storage is probably what is holding the emulator and OS code.  Doubt it actually dumps ROMS to internal storage, there's no need when it can just load the whole 4kb into RAM. Read more

The price is nuts.  Maybe for a retro Genesis around x-mas, but an Atari in the middle of summer?  $25, tops. Read more

Someone has! You can find a “fixed” version on the website atariage.com. Search the forums. A user has been working on it since 2013. Read more

I’m sure the licensing would be a nightmare, but this not coming with E.T. is such a missed opportunity.
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Does it have the difficulty switches on the back?  EDIT: I didn’t look at all the pictures--it does.

Where’s the 6-lever limited edition?
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Given how Elon spent billions too much for the platform and now grinding Twitter into the ground—thus destroying his remaining assets in Twitter—I find I’m experiencing my fave emotion: schadenfreude. Read more

This also could assist in misinformation. Add an image to a news story, create your own misinformed headline.

So, another idiotic move by Major Idiot of our times, Elon Musk. Read more

It’s almost impossible to quantify the irony of Musk whining “We may fail, as so many have predicted...” as though it’s some sort of fated outcome when he’s actively making the experience worse at every turn.  Read more