Category: Gaming
Dell's super-cool XPS 710 H2C gaming PC
That's super-cool as in swizzy cooling technology, obviously. Although the XPS 710 H2C doesn't look like your average beige box either. Its big selling point for hardcore PC gamers is that it apparently keeps its cool, even when you're duking…
Microsoft aiming for simultaneous Vista and Xbox 360 software releases
Microsoft wants to strengthen the relationship between Vista PCs and the Xbox 360 games console by encouraging developers to release games titles for both platforms at the same time. Other intiatives include having games that are playable on both formats,…
80s-style Nintendo game and watch keyrings
More great Nintendo-related stuff discovered at Shiny's Nintendo Wii blog, Wii Wii, this time these fantastically retro 80s-style game and watch keyrings. Don't expect full versions of any Mario or Zelda title, but do expect an eye-catching keyring, the time…
The world’s first Nintendo Wii laptop
Spotted over at Shiny's Nintendo Wii blog, Wii Wii, is an advancement that Nintendo has kept very quiet – the world’s first Nintendo Wii laptop. Ok, it wasn't made by Nintendo, but by those clever folks at Engadget. The laptop…
Arcade Mania Sit-Down table
Cancel any plans you had to go out in the next, ooh, 48 months. The Arcade Mania Sit-Down is so cool, you won't want to leave the house. And friends, family and passers by will be constantly dropping in anyway….
Fancy a tilting Xbox 360 controller?
With all the hype around Nintendo's Wii-mote and the PS3's Sixaxis controller in recent months, poor old Xbox 360 owners would probably be feeling sorry for themselves if they weren't waggling their trigger thumbs to stumps playing Gears Of War….
Mobile game of the week: Tomb Raider Legend 3D
Okay, so you can turn Lara Croft into a 2D platform game, but it doesn't really do justice to, well, the reason millions of sweaty-joysticked men fell for her in the first place. Yes, gamers, I'M TALKING ABOUT BREASTS. Well,…
Vandals get their L33T on
If you're going to smash up a derelict building and risk an ASBO, you may as well do it in style by bringing a Tetris influence to your 'work'. Marvellous. (via The Next Net)…
Turn your Nintendo DS into a VoIP phone
If I get my DS working at a Wi-Fi hotspot, chances are I'm going to be playing Mario Kart DS online (and losing, dammit). But how about using the DS to call people for free? Admittedly, Nintendo has yet to…
Khet: it's like chess, but with extra lasers
Deep Blue wouldn't have had a chance against Garry Kasparov if the Russian had been given a laser or two. Perhaps this could form the basis of a chess handicap system in the future, if computers start kicking human-grandmaster ass…