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Consoles in the cloud: Could games hardware soon be a thing of the past?

Jun 7, 2012

They Twittered. They guessed. They tried their hardest to fathom the truth. It was Mark Twain who said "the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated", but that has never prevented people from predicting and reporting the demise of people and objects in the 115 years that have passed since he did. full story

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