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Pre-Order PS3 Now

19. June 2006

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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 [...]

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Insane Tetris Skill

14. June 2006

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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?

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Nintendo DS Lite New York Midnight Launch A Success

12. June 2006

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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 [...]

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Drumming With The Nintendo Wiimote

30. May 2006

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Here’s another video to convince yourself that Nintendo Wii rocks. It demonstrates some cool drumming with the Wiimote motion detection controller. Simply amazing!

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Nintendo Wii To Be Priced Below $250

26. May 2006

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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?

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Video: Nintendo Wii Controller In Action. And New Classic Controller

10. May 2006

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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 [...]

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The Real PlayStation 3, The Real Controller, and The Real Price?

9. May 2006

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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 [...]

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Datel XSATA Backs Up Your Xbox 360 Data to PC

12. April 2006

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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 [...]

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Video: Multi-Touch Table Demonstrated With WarCraft III

2. April 2006

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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 [...]

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Goodbye PSOne

30. March 2006

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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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