Play.com is now taking pre-orders for Sony PlayStation 3! It is priced at £549.99 (~US$1020). Due to an expected European shortage of the PS3, we are unable to guarantee delivery of your PS3 before Christmas. All pre-orders will be fulfilled on a first come, first served basis and game titles in this package may be [...]
Continue reading...14. June 2006
You’ve always thought you were great at Tetris? Perhaps you haven’t seen this video of the champion at the Tetris Japan Finals 2001. Can you do that?
Continue reading...12. June 2006
Even though being a mere redesign and nothing as grand as the Nintendo Wii, the Nintendo DS Lite Midnight Launch was still a great success. Die-hard fans queued up, all eager to be one of the first in New York to get their hands on a Nintendo DS Lite. The first 100 shoppers even got [...]
Continue reading...30. May 2006
Here’s another video to convince yourself that Nintendo Wii rocks. It demonstrates some cool drumming with the Wiimote motion detection controller. Simply amazing!
Continue reading...26. May 2006
After so much speculation, Nintendo has finally revealed the official price of their next generation gaming console, the Nintendo Wii. Nintendo says it’ll be Â¥25,000 in Japan, which translates to around US$220 with the current exchange rate. So non-PS3 fanboys, would you buy the Wii?
Continue reading...10. May 2006
Check out the Nintendo Wii video above that was shown at E3. Looks cool and all, swinging the Wii Remote around as if you’re actually playing the real golf/tennis/FPS. But really, we’ll only know how well it’ll catch on when it’s eventually released. Home console input devices that require exaggerated movements have never ever really [...]
Continue reading...9. May 2006
The long-awaited Sony PlayStation 3 E3 event is finally here. For those of you who have been following the news of PS3’s controller design change, the real PS3 controller design is finally here. Pictured above, the new PS3 controller design doesn’t look very different from the PS2’s. But beneath it lies several interesting features [...]
Continue reading...12. April 2006
If you have an uber-large hard drive on your computer and it’s far from being fully utilized, why not use it to store your Xbox 360 data? The soon-to-be-available Datel XSATA does just that, via USB. It is especially good if you need more than what the Xbox 360 hard drive can do for [...]
Continue reading...2. April 2006
Here’s a video demo of an amazing prototype table-top touch-panel named DiamondTouch, made by Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL). By touching the screen, you complete a circuit that sends a signal containing the touch’s X/Y location to the table and the computer. That means a cable has to be connected to each players’ chair, or [...]
Continue reading...30. March 2006
Sony is officially pulling the plug on the PSOne – the redesigned version of the original PlayStation. With PS2 and the soon-to-release PS3 both supporting PS1 games, there is little reason for Sony to continue manufacturing them anyway. Also, with an upcoming game download service and emulator from Sony, PSP users will also be able [...]
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19. June 2006
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