If you're old enough, you might remember NBA Jam. This old basketball game has enough of a following that modders add new characters based on yearly rosters, and now there's going to be a documentary about NBA Jam and the start of sports video games.

What would you write in 72 bits? Currently, that's the amount of data that can be stored in a self replicating colony of E. Coli. You can't quite fit Shakespeare in there yet, but the team are working on multiplexing the data across multiple cells. 

Is your refrigerator running? You might want to check if your console is. New consoles draw more power than last gen, including significantly more when running video content than a dedicated streaming device.

The Opera Browser developer (Wait, that's still a thing?) now owns GameMaker. Well this is the weirdest development in 2021 so far.

This week DJ continued the suffering of EX-Arm, Professor went back to the flawed Master Chief Collection and Dev-i took the battle to a long time ago in the New Star Wars Battlefront 2.

NBA Jam doco in the works

- https://variety.com/2021/film/global/nba-jam-game-documentary-1234886255/

Info storing bacteria

- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00092-1

- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-020-00711-4

Next gen console energy consumption

- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-01-14-ps5-and-xbox-series-x-energy-consumption

Opera buys YoYo Games

- https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2021/01/19/game-maker-creator-yoyo-games-bought-by-browser-developer-opera/

Nerdful things

DJ

– EX-Arm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-Arm

Rating: 0/5

Professor

- Halo : The Master Chief Collection - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo:_The_Master_Chief_Collection

Rating: 4.2/5

Dev-i-boy

- Star Wars Battlefront II (2017 video game) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Battlefront_II_(2017_video_game)

Rating:

Other topics discussed

Space Jam (a 1996 American live-action/animated sports comedy film directed by Joe Pytka and starring basketball player Michael Jordan.)

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