Tired of that bulky and not-so-great-looking Xbox 360 taking up precious shelf space? It’s not exactly something that adds to the décor of your room, that’s for sure. For gamers who also like things to look a little more elegant and streamlined (ok, it’s just plain modern and cool looking), there’s the new Xbox 360 elegant edition that will fit nicely under the Christmas tree this year. Now your Xbox gaming console hides in this white rectangle box. They’ve also given it three 120mm fans that will hopefully keep your light green for years to come.

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Have you had the chance to try out Tony Hawk: Ride? If you’re like me, the odd peripheral probably got to you, but it was fun trying to master it. Now there’s a prototype for a skateboard to use, with arcade buttons, track balls, and even duct tape. It seems that skateboard enthusiasts everywhere are talking about it and rightly so. It looks like it’ll not only give you a realistic board to try to cut the moves with, but it should also elicit quite a response from your friends and family with duct tape and the beat up, scratched up surface.

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If you’re like most avid gamers, you either have or yearn for games that challenge you with amazing game design, but you also have or desire a hot looking gaming system. That’s exactly what iBuyPower’s new creation brings to you. The Chimera 2 is a sizzling gaming system that’s sure to please your eyes and grab the attention of anyone in the room. It’ll only set you back at about the thousand buck mark, too. It comes with a Core i5 processor and Radeon HD 5750 graphics, but you can easily use your tech knowledge to up those stats.

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Microsoft obvisouly don’t a repeat of last years Christmas holiday, if you didn’t hear about it, over the Christmas holiday, xBox live was used so much that it caused connection problems for most of it users, the people who just got a new xBox 360 + Live for Christmas weren’t able to play it online, the service went down for two whole weeks before Microsoft were able to bring it back online.

According to Aaron Greenberg, who is Microsofts xBox 360 product manager “Microsoft is well prepared for the type of growth we expect this holiday and that more Live staffers than ever before will be on hand to fix things if things do go bonkers.”

Hopefully this wont be a repeat of last-year!

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One of the great things about games is, your able to do very stupid things in the game and not be hurt in real life, for example crashing a car into a wall 100MPH, it would kill you if you didn’t have your seatbelt on, so during games, we dont need to care about our physcial safety gaming wise, but TN games has released information on the “gaming helmet”, which will allow you feel the game physicly.

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It’s no surprise than a follower of Ben Heck would release this device. A few months after the release of Ben’s portable Nintendo 64, he’s done it again by creating a portable DreamCast, which has been dubbed the DarthCast. The DarthCast uses the same shell belonging to a Lazer Doodle that the portable Nintendo 64 used. Once the shell was acquired, a Dreamcast, controller a PSOne LCD, and a power supply come together to make this inspiring piece of indie hardware. The DarthCast has around a three hour battery life before it will start to hum, letting you know its about to go over to the dark side.

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So you didn’t plunk down the cash for a 40GB PS3 package, and now you’re hurting for a media card reader and a couple extra USB slots. Don’t worry, Nyko has you covered here, even if they don’t care what they make your system look like. This unsightly little addition to your console will set you back $19.99, but you’ll have all the USB slots you’ll ever need. Of course, if you do care what your console looks like, you can always find creative ways of turning wired controllers wireless. But you’re guaranteed to spend more than twenty bucks because you’re concerned with console aesthetics.

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In an attempt to get people hyped about the update that is clearly not happening this week, Microsoft has launched a website that tells you all about the New Xbox Experience. The whole feel is meant to give you that dashboard style look. What’s cool is that each section offers an in depth look at some of the new features, such as Avatars, Parties, and all of the new social content that they’re planning on bringing over to Xbox Live. Unfortunately there still isn’t a date available for when this will all launch, but again, it’s not happening this week.

Keep an eye out on your Xbox and definitely check out the site if you’re curious to see what exactly they have in store for you.

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We’ve heard the rumors before. Nintendo has been planning on making a new Nintendo DS for quite some time. Now we’ve got yet another report that this will happen within the year. This information comes directly from Nikkei and the details sound pretty excellent. Apparently, the newer model will have a built in camera that will be used quite a bit in upcoming DS titles. The WiFi card will be revisited in an attempt to increase the range that the new Nintendo DS can offer. Apparently the estimated price for this system is $189, but then again nothing is confirmed.

It would be interesting to see how true this information is when we get closer to the end of the year.

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We’ve seen a lot of crappy games and accessories come out for the Wii since it’s launch not that long ago, so it’s hard to get excited about anything not monumental for our little white system. However, it looks like the guys over at Thrustmaster have come out with two of the hands down coolest Wiimote accessories to date. The first accessory is the epicly amazing dueling lightsaber pack. Considering The Force Unleashed has a multiplayer mode for the Wii, this pack makes sense. There are over 17 LEDs in each device. The second is what they call their Dual Trigger Gun. This puts every gun accessory to shame and even has a holster for the nunchuck.

The lightsabers will run you $34.99 for the set while the gun is only $17.99.

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