Swedish furniture maker IKEA and Microsoft’s Xbox division posted a short Instagram video this week that shows pieces shaped like the buttons and sticks on an Xbox controller. Designers from both companies worked together on the line. A full look at the collection is expected during Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, on August 26.
A short video posted last week shows someone strolling through a dense night-time cyberpunk city. Skyscrapers rise on either side of the streets. Cars roll past. Trees stand along the sidewalks. Pedestrians move about. Everything on screen is made from ordinary keyboard characters: letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and symbols stacked and spaced to form walls, windows, roadways, and moving figures. Grow Now Games, working alone, put the whole thing together inside a single HTML file.
Nintendo finally put its next home system on sale in Japan on June 23, 1996. After years of delays and growing anticipation, the company shipped about 300,000 units for the first day. Every one sold. Three games sat on shelves alongside the hardware: Super Mario 64, Pilotwings 64, and a Shogi (Japanese chess) title limited to that market.
