Forgotten Copy of Super Mario Bros. Sets Record at Auction
The game was bought as a Christmas gift in 1986 but was left in a desk drawer for 35 years. It sold for $660,000 at an auction on Friday.
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April 3, 2021
An unopened copy of Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. that had been bought in 1986 as a Christmas gift but sat forgotten in a desk drawer until recently was sold on Friday for $660,000, according to an auction house in Dallas.
The price was a record for a video game, the auction house, Heritage Auctions, said in a statement. That distinction was previously held by another copy of the same game, which sold for $114,000 in July.
Roblox Tops $45 Billion on First Day of Trading as Gaming Booms
The gaming site, valued at $4 billion a year ago, has benefited from the way children are passing their time in the pandemic.
Welcome to Bloxburg is one of many games in Roblox’s online universe, where players have avatars and can interact with one another.Credit.Roblox
March 10, 2021
When the pandemic forced people indoors a year ago, many passed the time by playing games on their iPhones, building gaming computers and exploring the latest blockbuster titles on their Xbox and PlayStation consoles.
For video game companies, that has meant gushers of cash. A record $56.9 billion was spent on gaming last year in the United States, up 27 percent from 2019, according to the NPD Group. Sony, which released the PlayStation 5 in November, recently reported a 62 percent profit jump while Microsoft tallied $5 billion in quarterly gaming revenue for the first time, helped by sales of its new Xbox devices.
A New Generation of Wi-Fi to Improve Your Home Network
The technology, Wi-Fi 6, is designed to reduce congestion from devices. We put it to the test.
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When the pandemic upended our lives, many of us were forced to stay home and shift our work and hobbies to the internet. Office meetings and classrooms were replaced with video calls. We binged on Netflix, played more video games and shopped online.
The result: We slammed our home Wi-Fi networks with more devices that were doing more than ever before. Our congested internet connections, which contributed to spotty video calls and sluggish downloads, became the No. 1 tech headache.
E.A. Sports Will Resurrect College Football Video Game
The planned return of a game beloved by fans was announced amid a protracted national debate over whether players should be paid for their images.
In recent years, Electronic Arts has had its college football video game on hiatus amid a wider discussion of whether players should benefit from its sales.Credit.Douglas Defelice/USA Today Sports, via Reuters
Published Feb. 2, 2021Updated Feb. 5, 2021
The Electronic Arts college football video game franchise, long beloved by sports fans but paused indefinitely years ago when it was swept up in wrangling over the rights of student-athletes, will be revived, the game maker said Tuesday.