Atari just announced a new Asteroids game. No, you guys, I'm being serious. Stop laughing!
Asteroids: Outpost, as it's called, is described as an open-world MMO with survivalist gameplay. The experience casts players in the role of cosmic prospectors who must defend and expand their claims. That involves shooting space rocks out of the sky and harvesting the resources within.
Sounds just a tad different from the 1979 classic. Expect to see it on Steam Early Access soon.
Microsoft and Samsung have ended a legal fight over royalty payments related to Android devices, the companies announced late Monday. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed
Last year, Microsoft sued Samsung after Samsung allegedly failed to pay some fees to Microsoft for a cross-licensing agreement related to patents used in Android devices. Samsung contended that the contract was no longer viable after Microsoft acquired Nokia's mobile division.
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While it feels like Street Fighter II has been released on every platform ever, that's not true, as Capcom never blessed Nintendo's doomed Virtual Boy with the classic fighter. That's where fans come the rescue, as Hyper Fighting has introduced Street Fighter II to wildly outdated 3D.
Homebrew games have existed in the still-active Virtual Boy community for a while now, and someone finally took a shot at making Street Fighter II. The project has been floating around for a few years, but only recently came to fruition and into the hands of a few lucky collectors.
Planet Virtual Boy has been collecting details on everyone with copies:
"Apparently, complete-in-box copies of Mr. Anon's and MK's incredibly well-crafted homebrew game "Hyper Fighting" are now out there in the wild, as impressions of the game are starting to pop up here and there. At the time of writing, we have no further info from the team behind this, but it seems that the game won't see a public release due to the obvious copyright dilemma. For now, we can only gaze in awe at the imagery lucky owners of the few existing copies share with the world."
We're not talking ROMs, either. These are custom-printed cartridges. Vectrex Roli got one.
Only a few copies are out there, sadly, because actively selling Hyper Fighting could raise the attention of Capcom and bring the nifty fan project to a halt. Plenty of companies are fine to let fans mess around with their games, but the moment money becomes involved, it's different.
This means only a select few Virtual Boy fans have access to playable Hyper Fighting cartridges, but they've been filming their experiences:
The game footage looks a little cleaner in this video, thankfully.
In a nutshell, it looks pretty good! I mean, as good as Street Fighter II can look on a Virtual Boy. It's more impressive as a clever feat of engineering than something you'd want to spend much time playing, but as with Quake running on an oscilloscope, fans can pull of basically anything.
You can reach the author of this post at patrick.klepek@kotaku.com or on Twitter at @patrickklepek.
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Egyptian authorities have set a retrial date of Feb. 12 for two jailed Al Jazeera journalists
Baher Mohamed, a producer, and Mohamed Fahmy, Al Jazeera's Cairo bureau chief, have been in jail for 407 days. They were arrested "after being falsely accused of colluding with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood," Al Jazeera said Sunday in a post announcing the retrial
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Clippy was an idea ahead of its time—just horribly executed. The overly friendly paper clip has since become an endless joke that even Microsoft rips on every once in awhile. But as Cortana's conquest across Windows 10 and the new Spartan browser continues, it seems the popular voice assistant will also be coming to Office.
Built and designed in the 1960s after the A-12 Oxcart, the SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest, most vanguardist air-breathing airplane in the history of aviation. These once classified photos reveal how Lockheed built both birds in secret, in California. They look taken at the Rebel base in Hoth.
BuzzFeed assembled a listing of every Academy Award winning film in the Best Picture category since the inception of the Oscars. The films are ranked in order of their favorites. Obviously, taste in movies varies wildly from person to person, and it's likely that no one will agree with the way these films are ranked. Yet the list is nice because it features great images of each picture and key information as to who directed and wrote the picture, what films competed with it in the Best Picture category for that year, as well as mentions of the actors and other facts.
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