Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
We keep waiting for “wireless” contact charging pads to blow our minds and revolutionize the way we use gadgets, but perhaps we’re just being idiot optimists. Or perhaps not. We’re seeing great possibilities with this latest implementation of WildCharger’s tech, the TouchCharge Kit from Psyclone for Xbox 360 controllers. The kit includes [...]
Filed under: Culture, Business
Variety reports that four movie studios are currently bidding for the film rights to Electronic Arts’ as-yet unnannounced game based on Dante’s Inferno. EA’s recently been on a movie deal bender, selling the rights to films based on Army of Two (suckers) and Mass Effect, but this is the first real “cart [...]
Filed under: Portable Audio
See that? That’s how far JVC’s eco-friendly designers will prostrate themselves in hopes of recycling your paper money into their bank accounts. On display in Tokyo at the Designer’s Week exhibition, the Sound Garden “Kirikabu” speaker combines your choice of potted plants with multi-directional speakers consisting of a woofer, and left- and [...]
Nintendo’s tip-toeing around an overseas, US release date of its new DSi handheld has now been narrowed to the summer of 2009, according to president Satoru Iwata. That’s a whole lot better than “well into” 2009 if you ask us. Meanwhile, Japan gets theirs starting Saturday for ¥18,900 or about $192 tax-inclusive — that's up [...]
Twenty years ago today, Sega released in Japan what was to be the most successful console in the history of the company. While the Sega Master System had only really taken off in Europe, the Sega Mega Drive, later renamed the Sega Genesis for its North American release, took the western world by storm. [...]
Filed under: Desktops
We saw Windows 7’s multi-touch capability way, way back in the day when Bill Gates was still at the wheel of Microsoft (uh hem, May). That demo was pretty limited to in-application touches and did little to show off the interaction with the OS and Internet browser — the two places we find [...]
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Microsoft’s Windows 7 announcement earlier today was followed up by an extensive demo of the new features during the PDC keynote, and since then even more info about the new OS has flooded out, so we thought we’d try to wrap up some of the more important bits here for you. Microsoft [...]
Wish there was a word more awesome than awesome. Because this would be that. Above is the original animation reference footage for the original Price of Persia. From 1985. That’s PoP creator Jordan Mechner’s little brother, running around in baggy pants. Mechner took this footage, tracked his bro’s movements then based the Prince’s animation [...]
Wish there was a word more awesome than awesome. Because this would be that. Above is the original animation reference footage for the original Price of Persia. From 1985. That’s PoP creator Jordan Mechner’s little brother, running around in baggy pants. Mechner took this footage, tracked his bro’s movements then based the Prince’s animation [...]
Filed under: Gaming
Guitar Hero: World Tour has only officially been on shelves for a day or so now, but unhappy PS3 customers are already making a fuss — the game’s new drumkit isn’t compatible with Rock Band 2. That’s a major disappointment — having redundant guitars because Activision and Harmonix can’t play nice is annoying [...]