Gadgets and Video Games

It’s a sad fact that at the end of every console war, a remainder of die-hard zealots from each camp stay behind, waving high their console’s battle standard while refusing to endorse any and all future pieces of hardware. Such a camp surely exists for the Sega Dreamcast, and while time may have forgotten these stubborn warriors, the kind folks at developer HUCAST have not — they recently released a 2D horizontal shoot-em-up titled Dux exclusively on the extinct piece of Sega hardware. Dux is currently selling for the bizarre price of $27.90 .

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Brand new 2D shmup ‘Dux’ released … for Dreamcast

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In Sony’s on-again / off-again relationship with PS2 backwards compatibility on the PS3, we’ve had our hopes raised to the stars and dashed again more times than we imagined possible. Today, Siliconera discovered what appears to be but one more volley in the company’s neverending game with our hearts, filing for a patent for software back in December of last year (published publicly just last week). According to the report, the software is intended to “decode and recompile” the hardware used in the PS2’s defining chip, the Emotion Engine, possibly allowing for previously unplayable PS2 games to become playable. While this patent could certainly suggest things to look forward to in the rumored PS3 Slim , we’ve been burned in the past and aren’t exactly holding our breath. Maybe more possible, Sony’s Eric Lempel said in February of last year that “There are possibilities through technology and software emulation to make that possible,” speaking on the subject of downloadable PS2 titles — rather than disc-based software support, mind you.

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Sony patents software-based PS2 CPU emulation

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We know how much you’re looking forward to the second installment in the trilogy of mini-expansions for Final Fantasy XI , which is … wait, it is XI , right? Or — hold on, is it XII ? Which one had the monkey-tail guy in it

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Final Fantasy XI moogle-filled expansion begins pre-sale July 5

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