The Checkmate Retro Styled IPS Upgradeable Display is a flat-screen monitor that looks and works like a 1980s computer monitor. It's a Kickstarter project for people who want to play retro games on their old consoles and computers.

If you've ever tried to connect your old console to a modern TV, you might have learned that the picture is less than perfect. — Read the rest

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I think it's going to be a good long while before I stop feeling sad about Mass Effect: Universe. Since its abrupt cancellation and its studio's closure, more information has been leaking out in bits and pieces from former BioWare devs, although some are admittedly more believable than others. — Read the rest

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If I had a nickel for every really great-looking video game fan film that dropped in the past two weeks, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Just over a week after The Walking Dead star Chandler Riggs took on Resident Evil, another filmmaker has tried their hand at an equally iconic series. — Read the rest

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So. BioWare, the legendary RPG studio that created the Mass Effect series, was shut down just yesterday, taking with it an in-development Mass Effect 5. In my coverage of the initial event, I lamented that we'd never see the project again thanks to its unceremonious death. — Read the rest

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If you need any more proof that private equity ruins everything it touches, look no further than the curious case of EA. Electronic Arts has long had a reputation for being the greediest game publisher around, going to great pains to monetize its games to the fullest extent possible and touting a list of killed studios Ted Bundy would be jealous of. — Read the rest

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