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UK Shoppers Gadgety Change in Taste

by Jay Garrett on March 17, 2010

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 spending habits.

This is then used to calculate the consumer prices index (CPI), which the Bank of England is furiously trying to keep below 3 per cent according to The Guardian.

Now that Blu-ray players are pretty affordable, with even top notch gear falling in the sub-£200 zone the HD tech now sits in the country’s basket in order to “capture price changes in this new expanding technology”.

Also joining the gadgety invasion are video game accessories thanks to the extra cash being spent by gamers on the likes of Wii Fit, Guitar Hero, Rock Band and Singstar.

The ONS calls this a “relatively new market” – just wait til Xbox 360’s Project Natal and the PlayStation 3’s Move busts out!

Gone are disposable cameras thanks to “decreasing expenditure as digital compact cameras and mobile phone photography become increasingly popular”.

Do you think that this represents the average shopper?

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XBox 360 Games on iPhone Before Windows Mobile 7

by Jay Garrett on March 15, 2010

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 Microsoft’s doing…..

Novell has shown off a new method for turning Xbox 360 games into iPhone apps – Android owners could well get in on the action too!

WinMo7 is due later this year and will bring XBox 360 games to your mobile but the big M’s frenemy, Novell, looks like it’ll pip it to the post and bring it to iPhone and Android before Microsoft.

Microsoft has partnered up with Nokia to bring its Flash competitor Silverlight to Symbian phones but Xbox 360 games have not hit Symbian phones yet.

As if to rub Microsoft’s nose in it Novell has shown an iPhone app version of the Indiana Jones games which, incidentally, Microsoft used to demonstrate Xbox 360 games running on Windows and Windows Phone 7 handsets. Hmmmmm……..

This all means that If games originally intended for Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7 blowers can be just as easily chucked over to Android and iPhone it kinda takes away the unique selling point of WinMo7 phones being the choice of casual gamers doesn’t it?

Halo on iPhone anyone?

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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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1 in 4 Gamers Pay and Download Instead of Leaving Their Gaming Chairs – What’s a High Street Again?

October 28, 2009 Click to read more →
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Gamers love to have the latest and bestest and it shows that 25% of gamers surveyed said that paying for and downloading the digital only version is the way forward.
The International Gamers Survey, conducted by Today’s Gamers took in the opinion of 13,000 gamers across Europe and the United States and found that, on average, [...]

Nintendo Wii Gets Price Cut Ahead of New Version – Wiiii?

September 22, 2009 Click to read more →
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Whilst the news of a Wii price cut was still warm in our ears it seems that Nintendo has something else up their collective sleeve.
According to Yoichi Wada, head honcho over at Square Enix, Nintendo will be rolling out the successor to the Wii by the year 2011.
And what sort of features will the new [...]

Nintendo Bringing Hollywood to Wii Worldwide

July 27, 2009 Click to read more →
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Nintendo is about to bring you another reason to buy their family friendly Wii.
The Nintendo Wii movie store is heading worldwide by the sounds of things and that will bring you the Hollywood greats right to your Wiimote!
Japan has the Wii movie service in place and the PS3 (via PlayStation Store) is already [...]

Michael Jackson to Appear in New Console Game

July 13, 2009 Click to read more →
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Since the shock death of the King of Pop, rumours have been going round that there had been a videogame, starring the man himself, in production.
This would be a followup to the “Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker” series of games created by Sega.
Well, as it turns out MJJ Productions (his production company), has confirmed that it’s been [...]

New Microsoft Xbox With Built-In Natal Controller For Next Year

June 19, 2009 Click to read more →
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More Microsoft Natal news!
It sounds like the Microsoft Xbox 360 will be arriving with built-in Project Natal motion-sensing camera and voice-recognition technology from 2010 – Could this be a reply to Sony’s Motion Contol release?
Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer was speaking to The Executive’s Club Of Chicago and stated that the new Xbox 360 hardware would provide a [...]

Left 4 Dead 2 – The Parish. More Zombies to Slay in The South!

June 2, 2009 Click to read more →
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As you’ve probably noticed; I don’t review games very often.
To be honest it’s rare I get the chance to play – but there is one FPS that keeps, quite literally, dragging me back – Valve’s award winning Left4Dead!
To my joy Left 4 Dead 2 has been announced at Microsoft’s E3 conference as an Xbox 360 [...]

Blu-Ray for XBox 360. More News!

May 2, 2008 Click to read more →

We are all aware of the constant rumour/denial cycle concerning the XBox following the death of HD DVD.
Rather than being ignored it seems that the leaks are getting more and more specific.
Engadget states that the Chinese language Economic Daily News is reporting that Pegatron, an OEM subsidiary of ASUS, has won the order from Microsoft to assemble the [...]