Category: Gaming

The system this week reintroduced to the world as Apple-esque iSec (Sports Entertainment Center), highlighting centric approach to gaming, with martial arts, skateboarding, and good-old fashioned monster fighting titles having already been demoed. The console will also support wireless controllers of some sort, for those sick of all pesky exercise. The iSec is set to…

The team at Gibrew.org have returned Linux to cell based gaming console with otherOS++, it features number of benefits over Sonys official stab supporting other operating systems. Linux is no longer relegated to a performance-degrading virtual machine has full access to PS3 hardware, it works on both old school fat and slim ones. This install…

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata addressed the Vitality Sensors conspicuous absence during a financial presentation, chalking the delay up to differences in biological information in humans. The peripheral is still coming, according to Iwata, but it wont be released until the company can make it work well with 99 percent of consumers a tall order indeed.

I Heart Chaos reports that Cranberryzeros next logical step after purchasing Nintendo 3DS was head down to Blue Flame Tattoo in Raleigh, NC to have gaming systems augmented reality card permanently on his arm. BSZ, he prefers to himself on the blog, was kind enough to share the video of the finished product. Dont forget…

AMD now debuted its new desktop level Radeon E6760 discrete GPU, it features both Open CL Support and Eyefinity enhanced support for no less than six independent displays. AMD also notes that the GPU can be paired with its upcoming Llano APU for some additional graphics and parallel computing power, while it might not wind…

With Sony PSN was targeted by an unknown hacker, Sony admitted after a week of silence that users personal information has been compromised. Now an interesting move was made by Sony to get back its loyal user base. In the official FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) released in the event of the current outage, Sony sheds…

Last Wednesday (April 20, 2011) Sonys PlayStation Network was down. That time Sony said that it is for maintenance and the outage would only last for a day or two. But now, Sony has announced that the outage was due to a hacker infiltrating the system and stealing PlayStation 3 and PSP players personal information.…

Origins EON 17-S gaming notebook, though a $3,000 dent in your wallet could severly compromise your purchasing power for the next few months. That is the starting price for this gaming laptop, with a 2.5GHz Intel Core i7-2920XM Quad-core Processor factory overclocked to 4.5GHz, and max the system out with 32GB of RAM, dual 480GB…

As we reported earlier the rumor about the successor to Nintendos Wii Gaming Console has become true. Nintendo has confirmed its plan to introduce the successor to its gaming console next year. Also Nintendo will reveal this model in the upcoming E3 gaming expo to be held in Los Angeles on June 7th. Still there…

NVidia’s new Optimus Graphics Technology which is available only to notebooks till now, will be launched for desktops at the COMPUTEX 2011 convention in Taipei, Taiwan starting May 31. For those who are new to the term Optimus Graphics Technology of NVidia will allow automatic switching between integrated GPU and discrete GPU as required for…

It really started on Wednesday night, with PlayStation gamers finding their network unresponsive to their login attempts, and now it continues as well. Sony has now finally shed some light on the problems; the culprit for the trouble has been identified as an external intrusion. The current downtime for PSN is second one, with anonymous…

Arcade Forges SLG3000 scanline generator gives your seemingly flawless HD displays a throwback makeover. It act as a middle one between your VGA compatible device and your TV, bring back the imperfections that marked early console gaming. It enlists a series of DIP switches and a potentiometer for setting scanlines and resolution to your specs.…

What we got today is Sony PSP is not dead yet. While it seems to be disappear from the market, that Japan and Europe are giving up on the downloadable content only devices, Sony of America told to Joystiq that the UMD-less PSP is still go in North America. The Production and sales will continue,…

The Sony PSP Go is being reported to have completed its production and shipment in Japan, seemingly foreshadowing a worldwide discontinuation of sales. The words from Impress Watch, which gives an official statement from Sony Computer Entertainment that promises support, firmware updates, and repairs for the PSP Go, but no further stock for the device.…

Nintendo Wiis prices came in sites like Toys R Us and best buy; both of them already have the motion controlled console on sale for $170 today. This doesnt seems to be a permanent price cut, hence it is noted as Limited Time Offer!, but we should not be surprised if other retailers follow the…

The PlayStation 3, that venerable old powerhouse of console gaming, has surpassed 50 million units shipped around the globe, while the PS Move Controller introduced late last year has also kept pace and rounded its own milestone with eight million units shipped. Sony reports that the sales to retailers not end users. So they are…

After Nintendo slyly told that the 3DS set a day one US sales record for its handheld division, it has now been forthright and actually disclosed some actually disclosed some cold hard numbers. 400,000 3DS units were sold in a month of March, says Nintendo of America chief Reggie Fils Aime. It was still enough…

The screenshots shows the Hulu Plus in action on the console, and a shot of Kinect Hub with Hulu and Netflix apps included. The Hulu and Avatar Kinect apps are fully functional, with good tracking of their movements similar to existing uses for the peripheral. The folks at Omni tech news also released a video…