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Xbox 360 Coffin – Great for Goth Gamers or for Your RRoD Bereavement

by Jay Garrett on March 20, 2010

Has your Xbox 360 received the cold hand of the Red Ring of Death?

Rather than smashing it into tiny pieces in a red rage why not ceremoniously bury the late console.

The coffin was designed by Alexis Vanamois and has space for an accompanying controller.

If only Alexis added coffin handles and perhaps space for the power source I could see plenty of people buying one as a carry case.

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Commodore 64 Revived with New Powers and Performance

by Jay Garrett on March 19, 2010

Every geek of a certain age will remember the now classic Commodore 64.

It was at the height of 8 bit technology when it appeared in 1982 and over the following 12 years 17 million of the them were sold!

The new C64 will be sporting Intel’s 64-bit quad-core microprocessors and 3D graphics capabilities upto 500GB of hard drive storage and 4GB of RAM. Also included are a DVD-RW drive, a touchpad, four USB ports, a Gigabit Ethernet port and a DVI (Digital Visual Interface) port to connect monitors – all this is squeezed into the all-in-one’s keyboard that measures 17.5 inches (44 cm) wide and 2 inches (0.5 cm) tall.

Commodore said. “It’s designed to take up far less room — and use far less energy — than any other desktop computer,” Commodore USA said. The PC will run the Linux, Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

Commodore USA’s online store is due to open June 1 offering the new edition. Obviously they’re hoping that trading on the licensed Commodore name will envoke all those fond memories.

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UK Shoppers Gadgety Change in Taste

March 17, 2010 Click to read more →
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The Office for National Statistics has refreshed its hypothetical shopping basket again.
Alongside the addition of liquid soap, cereal bars and garlic bread (it’s the future!) comes the arrival of the more gadgety Blu-ray player!
If you’re not sure what all this is about the ONS updates this rather huge ‘basket’ to reflect the average urban consumer’s [...]

Netflix Movie Streaming and Xbox Live Gaming on Windows Mobile 7 Series

March 15, 2010 Click to read more →
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Exciting times at MIX 10 where Microsoft took the Las Vegas stage in order to show off a lot of the applications that will soon be hitting the streets with Windows Phone 7 Series.
Because Silverlight 4 and the XNA Framework have been baked into the Windows Phone platform this unleashes quite a bit of power [...]

XBox 360 Games on iPhone Before Windows Mobile 7

March 15, 2010 Click to read more →
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Do you get twitchy when you’re away from your Xbox 360 for more than an hour?
Do you happen to own an iPhone?
Well, you could get Xbox 360 games on your iPhone soon – and it may hit the Appley hand-held before landing on Windows Phone 7.
Odd as it may sound but then this isn’t [...]

Sony PS3 Move not Arc – Motion Controlling Wand gets Named and Shown off

March 11, 2010 Click to read more →
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Sony has been showing off its Nintendo Wii baiting motion controller. They’ve also officially named it: PlayStation Move.
Sony created a bit of a stir at the PlayStation presentation held at the Games Developer Conference in San Francisco.
The naming of the Move may have lost a number of people money if they’d been betting on [...]

Power Gig: Rise of the Six String! Like Guitar Hero but Better and More Useful!

March 9, 2010 Click to read more →
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If you enjoy a good game of Guitar Hero and/or Rock Band but can’t help that nagging feeling in the back of your mind telling you that playing these is all very well but it’s not actually teaching people to play an instrument – well, my gadgety friends, Seven45 Studios may be our saviours for [...]

Origin Eon: Ex-Alienware Execs 18 Inches of Gaming Greatness

February 19, 2010 Click to read more →
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When Dell grabbed Alienware for itself four years ago three key execs decided to say thanks, but no thanks.
Instead they formed ‘Origin‘ and went about building things the way Alienware originally did and created the Eon18 laptop.
The Eon18 has a distinct Alienwareness about it and, as you’d expect, this lappy is quite the customisable puter. [...]

Microsoft Windows Mobile 7 Series – The Details

February 15, 2010 Click to read more →
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Barcelona’s MWC has been buzzing as to what Microsoft was going to bring to the stand.
Even though the Project Pink hasn’t been officially outed yet the Windows Phone 7 Series has.
“Smart design and truly integrated experiences” is how the big M describes it.
What is cool is the Xbox LIVE games and Zune music and video [...]

Brave Arms Social Shooter – 3D First Person Shooter Coming to Facebook

February 5, 2010 Click to read more →
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Do you need more than Mafia, Vampire and Farming games?
If you have a Facebook account you may have noticed that these ‘casual games’ are becoming increasingly (annoyingly) popular.
Personally I welcome ‘Brave Arms’ with open….err… arms as it becomes Facebook’s first ever 3D first person shooter.
Some may stand-up and say that FPS games cannot be [...]

iDrift to iDrive Your iPad

February 1, 2010 Click to read more →
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It’s not even a week ago since the iPad was officially announced and already little iAdd-ons are appearing.
Michael Greenberg’s iDrift is a simple steering wheel that encases the new Apple tablet
This is a great idea for driving games I guess and a lot more straight-forward to produce when compared to the Wii’s wheel.
What do you [...]

Nokia Orion – A Gaming Phone That I’d Consider Owning

February 1, 2010 Click to read more →
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Remember the Nokia N-Gage?
Cool idea but I found the large, bulky handset based on Nokia’s Series 60 platform less than enticing.
Well those phone futurists over at Recombu have decided that there’s a significant gap in the market for a gaming phone – hush all those that are screaming “what about the iPhone!?!”.
This slim ‘n’ sexy [...]

Psychonauts PC Game for a Quid, £1, 20 bob, etc

January 27, 2010 Click to read more →
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Steam has cut the price to this fabby game to 1GBP til Thursday!
According to RPS it’s “one of the loveliest games ever, Psychonauts, for £1. It’s hilarious, it’s so beautifully written, and it’s bursting with invention and ideas like nothing else”.
If you’re unfamiliar with Psychonauts the outline reads thus:
For years, the Psychonauts have deployed [...]

Zune Xbox Phone Running Windows 7 Mobile Out in Spring

January 21, 2010 Click to read more →
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The Zune / Xbox Phone rumours had quietened down for a while but now Katherine Egbert, an anylist with Jefferies & Company, has said that Microsoft is getting ready to bust out a phone based on Windows Mobile 7.
This would make the job offer make sense as well don’t you think?
“Our recent industry checks [...]

Sega Mega Drive Classics on Your iPhone – Genesis Store Front

January 21, 2010 Click to read more →
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At the risk of appearing that I’m all about the retro (be it ladies undergarments or headphones) here’s a return to the halcyon days of gaming.
Sega Mega Drive – just the sound of the name transports me back to the days of ‘Road Rash’ and ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ and now (well, February) comes The Sega [...]

Girl Wearing Space Invader Tights and not Much Else – Cool Retro Black Milk Clothing

January 17, 2010 Click to read more →
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For all you retro-fangirls and cool scenesters here’s some $80 Space Invaders tights.
Guys – here’s some pictures of a girl in her underwear (check the gallery below)!
I found these on Kokatu under the amusing headline ‘Space Invaders by Camel-Taito‘ Heheheheheh! Classy huh?
There’s stacks of other designs to chose from including ‘Pheonix’, ‘Geishas’ [...]

Still Not Sure Which Gaming Console is the Best, Most Reliable or Played Mostly by Girls? Infographic Time!

January 17, 2010 Click to read more →
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There it is in its multi-font, easy read format.
What’s not to like about infographics – especially when about gaming consoles?
How many of you had your Xbox 360 give you the RRoD?
Who has NEVER played a Mario game?
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Mad Catz Cyborg Gaming Mouse Range – Prices and Details

January 6, 2010 Click to read more →
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I was so tempted just to post the pictures and see if anyone could work out what the heck this thing was.
Then the more I looked the more it became obvious. It’s examples of the new Mad Catz Cyborg mouse – although I still can’t guess what all the buttons and bolts do.
The Mad [...]

YouTube to Add Gaming Portal

December 30, 2009 Click to read more →
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YouTube could be increasing its web monopoly by also becoming an interactive gaming portal as well as somewhere to play 80’s music videos and clips of kittens.
The recent Google  patent application for a “Web-based System for Generation of Interactive Games Based on Digital Videos,” was filed earlier this year but has only been published this [...]

Nintendo Zii Trademarked – New Console, Handheld or What?

December 15, 2009 Click to read more →
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Nintendo has just trademarked the title “Zii” in Japan which is to be used for computer games and electronic devices, according to the paperwork released today.
The company actually filed for the trademark on October 30, but this was only just released on the trademark database.
This means that Nintendo has protected the word [...]

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