So you do your research, you read up on everything important about the PS3’s new Move controller, and you consider yourself well prepared for a future of wild merrymaking and multiplayer gaming parties.
And then you find out you can’t use four full sets of controllers with your console. As it turns out, the PS3’s Bluetooth module is only fit to address up to seven wireless devices at a time, which poses something of a puzzler when you consider that you need a pair of Move controllers (or a Move plus a sub-controller) to get your money’s worth and four times two is, well, a number greater than seven.
Perturbed by this, Gizmodo contacted Sony for an official response and the news gets even worse: Read the rest of this entry »
Chinese designer Daizi Zheng has created a mobile phone that uses sweet drinks like Coca Cola instead of lithium batteries.
Zheng has been working on this revolutionary device for Finnish cellphone giant Nokia, and claims he has come up with a way of using sugar-based drinks to power mobiles.
Any sweet drink, even sugar-sweetened water would be enough to keep the phone running much longer than lithium batteries. Read the rest of this entry »
Cool, but also kinda funny, because although this list has like half a dozen different Atari 2600 models, mentioning that their differences are important to a collector, it only shows one NES, while I know for a fact there were at least two versions of that console. Still, very neat.
You will see a compilation of more than 100 video game consoles. There are also computers in this series but they could play video games too and some people used them more for gaming than anything else at the time… You will find in this list portable consoles, accessories, packages…etc too! It should bring back memories even to the oldest of you.
A great list. Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »
Following on from Keith’s PS3 festive top 10 comes the Xbox 360 list. Remember these are suggestions on what to buy this Christmas so the list is mainly focused on recent-ish releases. Anyway, let’s go. In no particular order these are the Gamesblog Top 10 Xbox 360 games to buy this Christmas…
Fifa 10 / PES 2010
Ah, the great football game debate. I really couldn’t choose between them and which ever one you decide on your footy-loving 360 owner should be happy. Having said that there are some differences. Fifa is slower, more methodical and more realistic. It also has all the right teams and players, even if the likenesses are still scarily off at times. PES has better player likenesses and animations but more importantly plays a faster more fluid game on the pitch. Fifa has more online options, PES has more exciting goalmouth scrambles. I’d still go with PES if I really had to choose but this one is too close to call. Read the rest of this entry »
If you’ve been furiously mashing the refresh key on your Joystiq machine (also known as a computer), waiting for Sony to finally announce that the PS3 Slim will reintroduce PlayStation 2 backwards compatibility, we’ve got some sad news for you. Forget that silly patent that filled you with base, vile hope. The dream is dead.
Speaking to Ars Technica, Sony’s John Koller has made it quite clear that backwards compatibility will never, ever, ever be coming back to the PS3. “It’s not coming back, so let me put that on the table,” said Koller, quite simply. He added that, “It’s not as big as a purchase intent driver as you may be hearing,” saying that most consumers are purchasing the console for PS3 games and Blu-ray movies.
So, to reiterate, no more backwards compatibility from now until the world moves on. And probably not after that, either.
Many of you may have been impressed with the quality of games on the Apple iPhone, yet a mobile chip maker known as ARM says that we will soon be able to have Xbox quality gameplay available on cell phones. Cell phones that only cost about $100 dollars.
The new ARM Mali-200 and Mali-400 processors will be released around winter of 2009, and they should be in cell phones on the market within a few months after that.
The company has already ported Project Gotham Racer to work with their new processors. According to them, “Performance-wise, it runs like the original Xbox, but feature-wise it looks like an Xbox 360 title.” Read the rest of this entry »
Flush with the success of its G13 gameboard, Logitech is now creating a whole series of peripherals that will all work together to celebrate the seventh letter of the alphabet.
The G-series line includes a new $199 G19 keyboard, offering a 320 x 240 color LCD mounted on top and 12 “G-keys” that can have up to three macros assigned to each.
Next up is the $129 G35, a 7.1 surround-sound headset with integrated “voice-morphing” options for those who’d rather sound like a space squirrel than domestic gamer. Read the rest of this entry »
So you probably got used to using your regular controllers for your Wii, XBox 360 or PS3. That is what most people did and many of them never thought much of it either. Well these modders just couldn’t settle for standard, and they had to take matters in to their own hands to mod their controllers to do what they wanted them to do.
The following 17 game console controllers have been modded in ways which left them much different than their original forms.
The Wiimote AK-47 Mod
This Wiimote mod really takes Wii first person shooters to the next level. It has a Wiimote IR sensor modded into the muzzle, along with a function trigger. Read the rest of this entry »
Quite frankly, we’re a bit shocked it took this long for the paint gun-wielding gurus over at Colorware to start fancying up Nintendo’s famed DS Lite, but just in case The Big N has yet to unveil a hue that floats your boat, look no further.
As with most everything else it sells, you can send in your current unit in order to receive it back in a whole new outfit, but those who’ve yet to jump on board the bandwagon can acquire their very first DS Lite already modified.
Best of all, Colorware lets you paint up the main frame, button pad, front port, bottom, L / R buttons and even the stylus separately (for a cost, of course), so those looking to relive the 70s can toss together some seriously groovy combinations. Go on, hit up the read link and exercise that artistic muscle. Read the rest of this entry »
This is just horrible. Why would parents want to cause their child so much disappointment and sadness? Then they just walk out of the room, leaving him to cry alone.
I really feel sorry for this kid. One good thing might come from this video all over the internet, maybe this kid will finally get his Xbox.
