Sunday, July 16, 2006

Good Reads

I caught a link to this interview with Tom Kalinske, the former president of SEGA of America, at the Ars Technica journals. Some highlights include the story of SEGA's origins, how Sony got into the industry it would eventually come to dominate, how the Nintendo 64 was originally designed as a SEGA console (we got the Saturn instead), and insights into the internal rivalry between SEGA of America and SEGA of Japan.

Another article of interest is [H]ard|OCP's take on gaming performance from Intel's new Core 2 Duo CPUs. There are a lot of reviews making the rounds that paint this part as the new king of everything in computer land, and while it is a great-performing, energy-efficient, and reasonably-priced chip that certainly puts Intel back on top for the time being, that's not quite the whole story...

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