NBA Jam, Bacteria Data Storage, Console Energy Consumption & YoYo Games

<p>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.</p><br><p>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.&nbsp;</p><br><p>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.</p><br><p>The Opera Browser developer (Wait, that's still a thing?) now owns GameMaker. Well this is the weirdest development in 2021 so far.</p><br><p>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.</p><br><p>NBA Jam doco in the works</p><p><strong>- </strong><a href="https://variety.com/2021/film/global/nba-jam-game-documentary-1234886255/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://variety.com/2021/film/global/nba-jam-game-documentary-1234886255/</a></p><br><p>Info storing bacteria<strong> </strong></p><p><strong>- </strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00092-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00092-1</a></p><p><strong>- </strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-020-00711-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-020-00711-4</a></p><br><p>Next gen console energy consumption</p><p><strong>- </strong><a href="https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-01-14-ps5-and-xbox-series-x-energy-consumption" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-01-14-ps5-and-xbox-series-x-ener