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Today is August 31, 2020
This Monday in Gaming:
Happy Monday! In today's gaming news:
  • A custom Gameboy that's actually a Wii
  • Sony made custom data libraries for next-gen PlayStation 5 rendering
  • Ubisoft has apologized for 'insensitive and harmful' use of the Black Power fist
  • Fans are remaking Battle for Middle-Earth in Unreal Engine 4
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This Game Boy Color is actually a portable Nintendo Wii and it's so damn clean
@Gingerofmods, on Twitter, created this beautiful Gameboy that is actually a Wii. This isn't an emulator, it has an actual Nintendo Wii motherboard inside this 3D-printed case.

Ginger says he used official Nintendo Switch joysticks, alongside some buttons from the Nintendo DS Lite, and hooked them all up to the guts of a GameCube controller -- which did require him to add software hacks to emulate some of the Wii's controls.

It gets a reported 2-3 hours of battery life -- but that USB-C port means it's easy to add an external battery bank to keep it topped up
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Sony made custom data libraries for next-gen PlayStation 5 rendering
Sony is empowering game developers by creating data libraries that're optimized for PS5's advanced next-gen rendering techniques, including ray tracing.

In its recent 2020 Corporate Report, Sony briefly mentions how it's helping game devs streamline data and asset management on the PS5. The next-gen PlayStation 5 SSD storage hardware is monumentally fast, and is capable of blasting uncompressed data at 5.5GB/sec speeds across a 6-channel memory controller and PCIe 4.0 x4 interface.

The SSD can feed data to RAM, GPU, and CPU components at never-before-seen levels for consoles, leading to instantaneous loading sequences, global illumination techniques like ray tracing, variable rate shading optimizations to significantly improve frame rates, and bigger, more robust worlds.
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