Arcade1Up Announces Ms. Pac-Man, Marvel vs. Capcom Cabinets

During today’s IGN Summer of Games event, the folks over at Arcade1Up revealed a handful of new additions to their line of miniature arcade cabinet replicas. These include Ms. Pac-ManMarvel vs. CapcomX-Men vs. Street FighterBig Buck Hunter, and a virtual pinball machine based on Marvel Comics superheroes.

While Ms. Pac-Man is iconic enough to occupy her own cabinet, the others brought along some friends.

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Secrets of the Nintendo CIC Chip – Early Cartridge Anti-Piracy | MVG

To combat unlicensed games and win back confidence of retailers in North America and Europe, the NES and all licensed games came with a lockout chip known as the 10NES or CIC. In this episode we take a look at this chip , the clone chip that was developed by Atari and how it took 20 years for the homebrew community to reverse engineer the chip and the challenges they faced.

GeeekPi RaspberryPi 4 Set-Top Box Kit with Full Size HDMI Ports!

In This video, we take a look bath the all-new GeeekPi Acrylic Raspberry Pi Set-top Box Kit. This case/Kit adds full-size HDMI ports to The Raspberry pi 4 and it moves all the ports to the back for a cleaner looking Raspberry pi setup. No drivers are needed so this will work with any Raspberry Pi OS like Retropie, Lakka, Raspberry OS, Batocera, Ubuntu, and many more.

New Metal Slug Console and Mobile Games Take Aim at a 2020 Release

It’s been a while since we’ve heard about the new Metal Slug game in development, but Korean subsidiary SNK Interactive has announced that the game is slated for release within 2020. Not only that, but there will also be a new smartphone game that has yet to be officially announced. [Thanks, Inven via @Gatoray on Twitter!]

Both games are currently in development at SNK proper in Japan and are separate from the Metal Slug IP smartphone game that is being developed by Tencent’s Timi Studio. Development on the mobile game is currently 80% complete, and the game is set to be a “2D side scrolling card-type game” that will release for both iOS and Android devices.

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Japan: Nintendo applies for new trademarks including Game Boy Advance and Wii U

Nintendo has recently filed for seven new trademarks in Japan sparking speculation. These trademarks were applied for on 12th May 2020 and were published today 8th June 2020 and include Game Boy Advance and Wii U. Game Boy Advance games have long been rumoured to be next on the list of Virtual Console games for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. As always we shall have to wait and see whether these trademarks amount to anything new.

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Nintendo now says that the accounts of 300,000 Switch users have been hacked

Do you have a Nintendo Switch? Did you also have a Nintendo 3DS or Wii U?

If you answered yes to both of those questions, there’s a possibility your Nintendo Switch account was one of about 300,000 that was breached by hackers.

Nintendo announced the breach in April, but it doubled the number of affected accounts in an update this week “as a result of continuing the investigation.”

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Far Cry 6 set outside of US, return to exotic setting, July 12 reveal

The news is coming from Gamereactor.dk, which says that Far Cry 6 will be officially unveiled during the event. The site said (translated): “The last [Ubisoft] game scheduled to be released before April (unless Ubisoft decides it’s this game that should be postponed due to COVID-19 or that there are too many AAA releases in a fairly short window) is set to be a Far Cry”.

It continues: “I don’t want to ruin Ubisoft’s plans by giving you all the information, but I can say with certainty that those of you who didn’t like Far Cry 5’s North American setting are likely to find this game more interesting when it’s officially unveiled during Ubisoft Forward on July 12”.

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