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Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media's sites from an editorial perspective. He's also the editor of Time Extension, the network's newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming's past glories.

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"Probably The Best Puzzle In The World" - When The Man Who Made Tetris Met The Creator Of The Rubik's Cube

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By Damien McFerran Verified
| Time Extension
If you're talking about the greatest puzzle ever made by humankind, the Rubik’s Cube would come pretty close to the top of the list. In fact, in the opinion of Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov, it's the "best puzzle in the world" – but amazingly, he hadn't met its maker – Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik – until this year.
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"The Magazine About Atari, Made On An Atari" - Atari Legacy Launches This Month

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By Damien McFerran Verified
| Time Extension
This month sees the launch of Atari Legacy, a new quarterly print magazine with features, hardware archaeology, demoscene news and "oral history from the Atari era." Edited by Piotr Mietniowski, PhD – "one of the world’s most recognised experts on 16- and 32-bit Atari computers" – Atari Legacy is even made on an Atari.
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"We Listened" - Commodore Reduces The Price Of Its Forthcoming Callback 8020 'Dumbphone'

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By Damien McFerran Verified
| Time Extension
Commodore International has reduced the entry-level price of its divisive Callback 8020 phone. Announced a short time ago, the Callback 8020 is seen as a means of combating the addictive lure of the modern-day smartphone. While it supports Android apps via its SailfishOS, it disables features like web browsing and social media by default.
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