ePanorama.net » Game Industry https://www.epanorama.net/blog All about electronics and circuit design Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:33:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 Repairing An Xbox One Controller https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2023/08/01/repairing-an-xbox-one-controller/ https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2023/08/01/repairing-an-xbox-one-controller/#comments Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:33:38 +0000 https://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=194299 I had one Xbox One Wireless Controller with broken bumber buttons. So I had to do Bumpers Replacement. Here are links to information I used in the repair problems. Xbox One Wireless Controller Repair https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Xbox_One_Wireless_Controller The Xbox Wireless Controller, manufactured by Microsoft, is commonly used with the Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles, but the →

]]> I had one Xbox One Wireless Controller with broken bumber buttons. So I had to do Bumpers Replacement.

Here are links to information I used in the repair problems.

Xbox One Wireless Controller Repair
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Xbox_One_Wireless_Controller

The Xbox Wireless Controller, manufactured by Microsoft, is commonly used with the Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles, but the controller can also be used on a PC. This includes repair information for model numbers 1537, 1697, 1698 (Elite), 1708, and 1914.

Xbox One Wireless Controller (Model 1697) Repair
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Xbox_One_Wireless_Controller_1697

Xbox One Wireless Controller 1697 Bumpers Replacement
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Xbox+One+Wireless+Controller+1697+Bumper

Repairing An Xbox One Controller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHNnPK2uleE

Repairing An Xbox One Controller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHNnPK2uleE

How to Fix Trigger & Bumper Buttons on Xbox Controller | LT RT RB LB Shoulder Sticking Stuck Repair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AdymLCSqxU

HOW TO FIX XBOX ONE CONTROLLER JOYSTICK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANTbgghBVS0

NEW XBox One controller tear down, fix, and repair video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx1xAhaYdKA

]]> https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2023/08/01/repairing-an-xbox-one-controller/feed/ 2 Pong is 50 years old https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2022/11/30/pong-is-50-years-old/ https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2022/11/30/pong-is-50-years-old/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2022 19:56:24 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=192756 ‘Pong’ is now half a century old. Pretty much exactly 50 years ago, Atari released Pong. It wasn’t the first video game ever created, nor the original take on virtual table tennis – But in Pong, the early video game industry was born in 1972. A few years later, the home version of Pong would →

]]> ‘Pong’ is now half a century old. Pretty much exactly 50 years ago, Atari released Pong. It wasn’t the first video game ever created, nor the original take on virtual table tennis – But in Pong, the early video game industry was born in 1972. A few years later, the home version of Pong would become an instant success. The success of Pong and Home Pong gave Atari the resources and expertise needed to create the Atari 2600.

Nowadays you can play Pong on-line on your web browser.

Did you know that Pong type games were once included in several TVs as built-in feature? And that there was once also a “Pong In A Chip“?

And there were Finnish engineers from Salora involved in the creation process of that chip?
Read more from those links:
https://www.pong-story.com/gi.htm
https://www.v2.fi/uutiset/pelit/36483/Uusi-tieto-1970-luvun-TV-pelivillityksen-juuret-ovatkin-Suomessa-paivitetty/
https://www.v2.fi/uutiset/pelit/32045/Salora-Playmaster–esitelma-suomalaisesta-pelitelevisiosta-vuodelta-1977/

Salora Playmaster Mini Peek – rare gaming television from 1977

]]> https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2022/11/30/pong-is-50-years-old/feed/ 15 Atari at 50 https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2022/06/28/atari-at-50/ https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2022/06/28/atari-at-50/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2022 07:17:21 +0000 https://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=191675 Atari At 50: The Story Of Our Lives https://hackaday.com/2022/06/27/atari-at-50-the-story-of-our-lives/ It’s been a year of anniversaries, what with the 40th birthday of both the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. There has been 50 years since Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney incorporated Atari Inc, a name that will forever be synonymous with the development of →

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https://hackaday.com/2022/06/27/atari-at-50-the-story-of-our-lives/

It’s been a year of anniversaries, what with the 40th birthday of both the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

There has been 50 years since Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney incorporated Atari Inc, a name that will forever be synonymous with the development of the computer game industry. PC Magazine have marked the event with a retrospective.

Atari Turns 50: A Look Back on the Original Name in Video Games
Atari launched a multi-billion-dollar industry, only to lose control of it in a series of missteps. But the name will always resonate.
https://uk.pcmag.com/games/141175/atari-turns-50-a-look-back-on-the-original-name-in-video-games

On June 27, 1972, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney incorporated Atari in Sunnyvale, California.

]]> https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2022/06/28/atari-at-50/feed/ 1 Pac-Man at 40 https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2020/05/23/pac-man-at-40/ https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2020/05/23/pac-man-at-40/#comments Sat, 23 May 2020 19:12:21 +0000 https://www.epanorama.net/blog/?p=186280 Pac-Man is a maze arcade game developed and released by Namco in 1980. The original Japanese title of Puck Man was changed to Pac-Man for international releases. Pac-Man was a widespread critical and commercial success, and has an enduring commercial and cultural legacy that has been featured in many computer games. It was also featured →

]]> Pac-Man is a maze arcade game developed and released by Namco in 1980. The original Japanese title of Puck Man was changed to Pac-Man for international releases. Pac-Man was a widespread critical and commercial success, and has an enduring commercial and cultural legacy that has been featured in many computer games. It was also featured on Google playable doodle from 10 years ago on pac-man

Pac-Man at 40: The eating icon that changed gaming history
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/pac-man-40-anniversary-history/index.html

When “Pac-Man” debuted in Tokyo 40 years ago, no one could have predicted it would become the most successful arcade game of all time.

Even though the game is 40 years old, always something new appears around it. Nvidia’s AI recreates Pac-Man from scratch just by watching it being played article tells that Nvidia researchers taught an AI system to recreate the game of Pac-Man simply by watching it being played. There was no coding involved, no pre-rendered images for the software to draw on. The AI model is simply fed visual data of the game in action along with the accompanying controller inputs and then recreates it frame by frame from this information. The resulting game is playable by humans, and Nvidia says it will be releasing it online in the near future.

]]> https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2020/05/23/pac-man-at-40/feed/ 5 Gaming addiction classified as disorder by WHO https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2018/05/08/gaming-addiction-classified-as-disorder-by-who-bbc-news/ https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2018/05/08/gaming-addiction-classified-as-disorder-by-who-bbc-news/#comments Tue, 08 May 2018 03:54:27 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=177591 Here are some news related to addictive gaming: Gaming addiction classified as disorder by WHO   http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42541404 Gaming can be too addictive to some people. Now gaming addiction is to be listed as a mental health condition for the first time. The World Health Organisation’s 11th International Classification of Diseases (ICD) will include the condition →

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Here are some news related to addictive gaming:

Gaming addiction classified as disorder by WHO

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42541404

Gaming can be too addictive to some people. Now gaming addiction is to be listed as a mental health condition for the first time.

The World Health Organisation’s 11th International Classification of Diseases (ICD) will include the condition “gaming disorder”.
Some countries had already identified it as a major public health issue – for example South Korea, Japan and China.

Other view to gaming:

HIGHER EDUCATION VIDEO GAME ALLIANCE OPPOSES WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION’S ‘GAMING DISORDER’

http://138.197.45.69/article_writeups/higher-education-video-game-alliance-opposes-world-health-organizations-gaming-disorder/
Proposed inclusion in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) stigmatizes billions of players worldwide, is based on little scholarly evidence, and proposes no treatment or prevention
We’ve seen this kind of scapegoating before with both games and other media forms for centuries.

]]> https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2018/05/08/gaming-addiction-classified-as-disorder-by-who-bbc-news/feed/ 3 Something has gone terribly wrong with Finland – it has become an emblem of mobi | Pocket Gamer.biz | PGbiz https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2018/04/18/something-has-gone-terribly-wrong-with-finland-it-has-become-an-emblem-of-mobi-pocket-gamer-biz-pgbiz/ https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2018/04/18/something-has-gone-terribly-wrong-with-finland-it-has-become-an-emblem-of-mobi-pocket-gamer-biz-pgbiz/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:50:44 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=177314 http://www.pocketgamer.biz/comment-and-opinion/67926/something-has-gone-terribly-wrong-with-finland-it-has-become-an-emblem-of-mobile-game-industry-stagnation/ There is no country as tightly bound to the mobile games industry as Finland, where the success of local champions has become a totemic part of national identity. Nokia’s Snake mobile phone game had been an astonishing success in 1997. Rovio’s Angry Birds took flight in early 2010. In the summer of 2012, Supercell →

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There is no country as tightly bound to the mobile games industry as Finland, where the success of local champions has become a totemic part of national identity.
Nokia’s Snake mobile phone game had been an astonishing success in 1997.
Rovio’s Angry Birds took flight in early 2010.
In the summer of 2012, Supercell shocked the nascent mobile games industry by launching Hay Day and Clash of Clans. Just few months later start-up Fingersoft spun gold out of gravity-based rally game “Hill Climb Racing”.
Nokia hardware was passé – the future belonged to mobile content. Finland would be the global center of mobile gaming. And for years, the magic seemed real. By 2016, Finland had 250 games companies and the industry represented 0.5 per cent of the GDP.
Yet in the past two years, it has become clear something has gone awry. It seems that it’s the aging mobile games studios have been unable to inject new blood and discover novel consumer behaviours.

]]> https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2018/04/18/something-has-gone-terribly-wrong-with-finland-it-has-become-an-emblem-of-mobi-pocket-gamer-biz-pgbiz/feed/ 0 The Death of Flash and Rewriting Old Code https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/12/23/the-death-of-flash-and-rewriting-old-code/ https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/12/23/the-death-of-flash-and-rewriting-old-code/#comments Sat, 23 Dec 2017 07:57:33 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=62098 https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DougPearson/20171212/311570/Post_Mortem_The_Death_of_Flash_and_Rewriting_14_Million_Lines_of_Code.php Adobe recently confirmed the suspicion held by many in the games industry that Flash is a dying platform. The official announcement that Flash will be discontinued in 2020 is threatening the infrastructure for many games and mobile apps, putting developers in a position to either abandon or overhaul their proprietary code built meticulously over →

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Adobe recently confirmed the suspicion held by many in the games industry that Flash is a dying platform. The official announcement that Flash will be discontinued in 2020 is threatening the infrastructure for many games and mobile apps, putting developers in a position to either abandon or overhaul their proprietary code built meticulously over the course of years. 

 The question was whether to start over by building a new platform from the ground up, or find a solution to transfer current codebase to a new platform. Finding the right solution was not going to be easy.

 Option #1: Unity

 Option #2: HTML5

 Option #3: Xamarin

 Option #4: Haxe

After selecting Haxe, the team decided to parcel the transition into four parts. With any major undertaking, challenges are bound to arise.

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This site tries to gather open-source remakes of great old games in one place. You get the source code – and can even play some games in your browser. This is a long list which will bring back gaming memories. Some of these games aren’t exact remakes but evolution of original ones.

 Similar resources: check out Free Gamer, a blog dedicated to open source game news, and Unix ASCII games, a list of opensource text-based games.


]]> https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/10/31/open-source-game-clones/feed/ 1 An Angry Birds Empire: Games, Toys, Movies and Now an I.P.O.  https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/09/21/an-angry-birds-empire-games-toys-movies-and-now-an-i-p-o/ https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/09/21/an-angry-birds-empire-games-toys-movies-and-now-an-i-p-o/#comments Thu, 21 Sep 2017 18:03:54 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=59493 https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/business/dealbook/angry-birds-rovio-ipo.html?referer=http://m.facebook.com/ The digital world is littered with one-hit wonders — companies that tried to turn a single successful brand into a big-time business only to be eclipsed by changing technology and consumer tastes. The maker of Angry Birds, Rovio Entertainment, hopes to defy that trend. Rovio found success in a smartphone game Angry Birds. Rovio helped →

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The digital world is littered with one-hit wonders — companies that tried to turn a single successful brand into a big-time business only to be eclipsed by changing technology and consumer tastes.

The maker of Angry Birds, Rovio Entertainment, hopes to defy that trend.

Rovio found success in a smartphone game Angry Birds.

Rovio helped usher in the rise of smartphone games, building a juggernaut around the Angry Birds brand. 

Now, the Finnish company is planning an initial public offering that could value the company at roughly $1 billion.


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