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This Youtuber Made The Fake GameCube Portable From 2005 Into The Real Thing

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A virtual rendering of a handheld Nintendo GameCube was an object of affection for dedicated gamers back in 2005. Now, it's a reality. Gaming

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AI Murder Machine Kicks Air Force Pilot's Ass in DARPA's Simulated Dogfight Contest

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Next Week’s Partial Lunar Eclipse Will Be Longest for Next 648 Years

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Modder Brings Fabled Portable GameCube To Life

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The seemingly ancient GameCube portable concept from 2005 has been transformed into a real product, though you'll probably want to stick with the Switch.

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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover breaks 17-year-old driving record

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NASA’s Perseverance rover recently drove a record distance on a single solar day across the surface of Mars, smashing the record set by another rover in 2005.

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‘Resident Evil 4 VR’ Heading To Oculus Quest 2, Details Here

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In a surprise announcement made earlier today during the Resident Evil Showcase , it was revealed that Capcom, Facebook, and Armature Studios are developing an official VR port of the 2005 action/horror game Resident Evil 4 , aka the best Resident Evil game ever.

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Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge Are Mr. and Mrs. Smith in a New Series for Amazon

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In a move straight out of our fanfic dreams, Fleabag ’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Childish Gambino himself Donald Glover will executive produce and star in a new series based on the 2005 movie Mr. and Mrs Smith for Amazon Prime.

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‘Resident Evil 4 VR’ Arriving Just In Time For Halloween

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During the Resident Evil Showcase this past April, Capcom revealed Resident Evil 4 VR , a full VR port of the classic 2005 survival horror game coming soon to Oculus Quest 2 headsets. Check out the latest trailer for the upcoming VR survival horror game here.

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Resident Evil 4 VR Wins VR Game Of The Year At SXSW 2022

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A VR adaptation of the hit 2005 action-adventure game of the same name, RE4 VR puts you in the shoes of Leon S. This year’s nominees included hit games such as Demeo, Lone Echo II, and After the Fall just to name a few.

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Metroid Dread has been in the works for 15 years

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Metroid Dread producer Yoshio Sakamoto confirmed that the game has been in the works since 2005. Gaming e3 2021 metroid dread Nintendo

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Augmented Reality Disappeared From Gartner’s Hype Cycle – What’s Next?

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Since 2005, enthusiasts have been following AR’s journey up and down the curve. Augmented reality evolution in the Gartner Hype Cycle from 2005 until 2020. Augmented reality evolution in the Gartner Hype Cycle from 2005 until 2020. In the AR industry, this news left some open-mouthed: augmented reality is officially out of Gartner’s Hype Cycle.

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Doctor Who Could Bring Back Its Fantastic Behind-the-Scenes Show

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When Doctor Who returned in 2005, alongside it came a support show unlike anything else at the time: Doctor Who Confidential , an extensive weekly, behind-the-scenes breakdown of how the episode you just watched got made.

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‘Resident Evil 4’ is Coming to Quest 2 (but not original Quest)

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Capcom today announced that it’s bringing the horror classic Resident Evil 4 (2005) to Oculus Quest 2. Initially launched on Gamecube in 2005, it has since been ported to PS2, Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, Xbox One, and PC, selling 10.6

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Leaked Capcom Documents Point to ‘Resident Evil 4’ VR Coming to Oculus Headsets

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Considering the original game was first released on consoles in 2005 and then later remastered in 2011, the Quest platform is a likely bet; Facebook has also largely abandoned PC VR in the wake of Quest 2, its latest standalone VR headset.

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Y: The Last Man Canceled at FX as Its First Season Nearly Ends

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Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s 2005 comic, has been canceled. FX’s adaptation of Y: The Last Man , based on Brian K. The announcement was made today by showrunner Eliza Clark, who said that FX on Hulu wouldn’t be going forward with a second season. Read more.

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Hong Kong's Disney+ Nuked an Episode of The Simpsons That Mocked Mao Zedong

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The irony gods have smiled upon us once again: After Disney+ made its long-awaited Hong Kong debut earlier this month, a 2005 episode of “The Simpsons” lampooning Chinese government censorship seems to have been discreetly scrubbed from the app in the region.

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Quest 2 Discounted for Limited Time, Includes Free Copy of ‘Resident Evil 4’ & ‘Beat Saber’

Road to VR

And on the scarier side of things, Resident Evil 4 is a great VR port of the classic survival-horror title initially launched by Capcom on GameCube in 2005. This summer Meta raised the price of Quest 2 by $100 and tossed in a copy of Beat Saber to stave off growing costs.

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This AR Go-Kart Experience Is Basically Real-Life ‘Mario Kart’

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Back in 2017, Nintendo partnered with VR Zone Shinjuku to create Mario Kart GP VR , a location-based VR port of its 2005 arcade racing game, Mario Kart GP. Chaos Karts uses digital projections to deliver a one-of-a-kind interactive combat racing experience.

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Leak: ‘Resident Evil 4 VR’ Mercenaries Mode Coming Next Year

VRScout

In this brilliant VR adaptation of the legendary 2005 action-horror game, players take on the role of special agent Leon S. A leaked video confirms the arrival of the popular game mode. Last month Resident Evil 4 VR launched on Oculus (Meta) Quest 2 headsets.

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What Apple's Rumored Big Change Could Mean for the Future of the Mac

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Apple’s Mac computers have gone through just two major CPU architecture transitions in their entire history: moving from Motorola 68k to PowerPC processors in 1994, and then switching from PowerPC to Intel x86 chips in 2005.

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Ex-Apple Engineer Says U.S. Government May Have Built a Top-Secret Geiger Counter Out of an iPod

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Back in 2005, before the iPhone, Apple purportedly helped a U.S. Department of Energy contractor modify a 5th-generation iPod to secretly record and store data.

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Constantine Was Rated R Mostly Because It Was Moody

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Constantine , the 2005 Keanu Reeves - starring adaptation of the Vertigo Comic, had a rough go of it at first.

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Watch Obi-Wan Kenobi's Final Dual With a Revenge of the Sith Upgrade

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Back in 2005, audiences saw Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) fight to the near-death on the lava planet in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. No matter what happened on Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi , there was no way it was going to match Mustafar.

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The Timey-Wimey History of Doctor Who's Time War

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Those five words have hung over Doctor Who ever since it was revived in 2005: an earth-shattering conflict that saw the Doctor’s people, the Time Lords, pitted against the Daleks. The Last Great Time War.

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A Console Modder Recreated a Classic Portable GameCube That Only Ever Existed Online as a Render

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It’s still no easy feat, but creating a realistic 3D render of a miniaturized console is nowhere near as difficult as building the real thing, but that didn’t stop YouTuber GingerOfOz from building a handheld portable GameCube based on nothing but a concept pic that’s been floating around the internet since 2005.

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It's Official: Y: The Last Man is Dead

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Vaughn and Pia Guerra’s 2005 Vertigo comic, the post-apocalyptic series starred Ben Schnetzer as Yorick, the last surviving cis male on the planet and his pet monkey as they travel the new world… Read more.

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Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys Welcomes Whoopi Goldberg as the God of Birds

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Here’s some more casting news for the highly anticipated Amazon series based on the 2005 novel Anansi Boys from author Neil Gaiman : Whoopi Goldberg has been announced to play the book’s main antagonist, the God of Birds.

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‘Resident Evil 4’ for Quest 2 to Release October 21st, Extended Gameplay Trailer Here

Road to VR

Just in time for Halloween, Oculus announced today that the VR port of the award-winning survival horror game Resident Evil 4 (2005) is set to release on October 21st.

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I Miss Electroplankton: The Nintendo DS' Weird and Wonderful Musical Toy

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I’m more of a “hey, I guess I should play this now that it’s finally on sale” kind of gamer, but in 2005 I was obsessed… Read more.

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Oh, Right! A Percy Jackson Streaming Series! We Totally Forgot!

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The first Percy Jackson book was released in 2005. The first Percy Jackson movie was released in 2010. And now, 22 months after news broke of a Percy Jackson streaming show, that’s officially happening too. Read more.

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The World Finally Caught Up With Russell T. Davies’ Doctor Who Ambitions… What Now?

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He’ll make his return in 2023, replacing just the second showrunner to replace him since the series returned in 2005. Everything old is new again—Russell T. Davies is going to be running Doctor Who again for the first time in over a decade.

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Marvel's New Hulking & Wiccan Comic Would Warm the Scarlet Witch's Cold, Dead Heart

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Since the moment they were first introduced together in the pages of Young Avengers back in 2005, Teddy Altman , the shapeshifting heir to the Kree and Skrull thrones, and Billy Kaplan, the Scarlet Witch and Vision’s reincarnated son , have been inseparable, and their love for each other been obvious to everyone who… Read more.

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Star Wars: Republic Commando Redeploys Delta Squad on PS4 and Switch

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Before Dave Filoni’s Clone Wars cartoon unknowingly kicked off a huge part of the new Star Wars prequel-era canon, our best look at the lives of the clone army came from 2005's Republic Commando , a semi-tactical first-person shooter now hailed as one of the best Star Wars video games ever made.

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Every VR Game Announcement From The Meta Gaming Showcase 2022

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This past November we heard rumblings about a potential return of The Mercenaries, a bonus game mode that launched with the original game back in 2005. Catch up on all of the exciting announcements from this year’s show. The 2022 Meta Gaming Showcase is officially in the books.

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10 Amazing VR Games For The Quest 2

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The game was originally released in January of 2005 as a non-VR title and received rave reviews. The Meta Quest 2 VR headset has a little something for everyone. There are hundreds of fantastic titles available to purchase in the Meta Quest Store right now.

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Biden Pledges to Cut U.S. Carbon Emissions 50% by 2030

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On Thursday morning, the Biden administration unveiled a pledge to slice the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions in half compared to 2005 levels by the end of the decade.

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Five Classic Video Games That Deserve A VR Remake

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Earlier this month, Resident Evil 4 VR launched on the Oculus Quest 2 and so far players are absolutely loving this expertly-crafted VR remake of the original 2005 horror-action video game. VR remakes are all the rage at the moment.

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