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RetroWorld Expo returns for a second year with a 2 day event. RWX is a celebration of classic and retro video gaming that also embraces tabletop gaming, modern video gaming, homebrew gaming, anime, action figures, comic books, cosplay, arcade machines, and much more.
Continue reading RetroWorld Expo 2016 October 15th-16th Wallingford, CT
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So many games and so few places to shove them. Atlantic shelves are decent enough, but they are expensive and made of particle board. Billy bookcases are solid, but way too deep if you are just storing games, and also on the expensive side. Is there a way to build nice, shallow wall shelving that will accommodate loose carts as well as boxed games, DVDs, and Blu Rays? Yes.
Continue reading Getting Organized and Staying Organized: Wall Shelves
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Pardon my de_dust 
I have an awesome gaming PC if I do say so myself. Even if the hardware is a few years old, it's still running strong. My quad core i7 setup with two Geforce 670s in SLI still handles just about everything I throw at it at high settings at a respectable frame rate. So why haven't I been doing the majority of my gaming on the PC? As it turned out, all I needed was instant access to my PC Games in the living room.
Continue reading The Steam Link Changed How I Play PC Games
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Happy Valentine's Day! If you forgot to buy your boyfriend/girlfriend/partner a Valentine's Day gift, don't fret! There are plenty of great games in your collection right now (or in GameStop's bargain bin) that will show your loved one just how much they mean to you on this special day.
Some of these games are a bit long so you won't be able to finish all of them on Valentine's Day.
WARNING: Minor spoilers will be briefly discussed for some of the games on this list
Continue reading What to Play on Valentine's Day
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Getting and staying organized is a constant endeavor. As a parent, there seems to be a never ending sea of plastic toys in every room of the house. As a homeowner, there is a never ending list of maintenance and upgrade tasks. As a game collector, there is an accumulation of more and more awesome video games that are added on a regular basis. How do we keep them all organized and why is it important?
Continue reading Getting Organized and Staying Organized
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Broken Age is a beautiful game. Sometimes you just want to enjoy a piece of art. I'm not going to open up the "Are Games Art?" can of worms argument, but I can say without a doubt that THIS GAME is a brilliant work of art.
Everyone knows the story of this game, but here's a quick recap if you aren't a part of "everyone": Tim Schafer and Doublefine started a Kickstarter asking for $300,000 to make an adventure game. The project exploded and they received over $3.3 Million. The game took a lot longer to make than anticipated, partially because they decided to make a much bigger game than they had originally planned now that they had way more funds than they thought they would. Instead of a delivery date of October 2012, the first half of Broken Age was available for backers to play in January of 2014, with the second half arriving in April of the same year. Along with the game, backers were given access to an episodic documentary of the making of the project. Now that that's all out of the way, let's talk about the game.
Continue reading Broken Age is a Beautiful Game
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PC gamers and console gamers have always been at odds, to put it nicely. Could the Steam Link help with the unification of these two long feuding groups?
Continue reading Could the Steam Link be the Missing Link?
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As a father of two boys under 2 years old, it isn't always easy to find time for gaming but I have played some great games this year.
I apologize for the quality of the pics, I took them off screen and they didn't all come out as nice as they look on my TV 
Continue reading Best Games of 2015 Wildbil52 Edition
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As the time counter in my Fallout 4 game crosses from 23 hours 59 minutes to 1 day, I'm examining why huge games like this one might scare people off and what we can do in order to play them.
Continue reading The Case for Huge Games
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It has been a long and interesting process. I learned a lot and I am very happy with the final product. Let me show you how I put all of the pieces together
Continue reading Arcade Control Panel Design Part IV: The Final Countdown
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We have 5 areas to route, some Lexan to cut, a little paint to apply, and there was a slight delay with the artwork. All in another day's work when designing a control panel.
Continue reading Arcade Control Panel Design Part III
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Time to update your collection, everyone, it's time for the RFGeneration Secret Santa v2015.0. RFGeneration's Secret Santa event is a fun and exciting holiday gift-exchange tradition that goes back several years.
For the full list of rules, information, and to sign up, head to the RFGeneration Secret Santa v2015.0 thread located here:
http://www.rfgeneration.c...15990.msg229936#msg229936
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OK, get ready for a long entry. I had originally planned for this to be a 4 or 5 part series but it's been kicked into high gear to get it complete by the time the RFGen crew descends upon me for the RetroWorld Expo. A lot of details to go over, a lot of assembly, a lot of art. Time to settle down for the never ending control panel assembly.
Continue reading Arcade Control Panel Design Part II
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We have talked about some of the things you should do when you first pick up a cabinet and we have talked a little bit about monitors and working on them. Now we are going to talk about the control panel ("CP"). There are lots of important decisions that go into designing them and if you are only going to have one or 2 machines, you had better make the CP count.
Continue reading Arcade Control Panel Design Part I
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When dealing with arcade monitors, there are a few relatively easy things that you can do to improve the visual quality and prevent a potential monitor catastrophe. I'll take you through a few easy fixes and show you one or two that require a little more experience.
Continue reading Arcade Monitor Repair: Flyback, Cap Kit, and Rejuve
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