Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tired of not being able to play Crysis Warhead on your computer? Looking to build a new rig? Well instead of going nuts trying to build it yourself, you could always just check out the machine that GameCyte has put together.
The system is pretty well build, with a Core 2 Duo E7300 processor, GeForce 9800GT video card, 2GB DDR2 800mhz RAM, and a 250GB hard drive. There’s plenty more as well, so just check out the flyer above.
No, you’re not going to have to fork over some massive dough to get your hands on this bad larry. It will only cost you $700 and it’s already fined tuned to specifically work with Crysis, giving you 30 frames per second on the highest DX 9 settings possible.
While the game doesn’t come with it, Windows XP does.
While we won’t be seeing the limited edition of Rock Band 2 hitting the shelves for awhile, we will be seeing some standalone instruments making their way on to the shelves around the same time as the game launches next week.
The prices have been revealed as well and they are a bit up there, depending on what you’re looking to buy. The wireless drums will run you $90, the official guitar another $70. Mad Catz will be releasing their Fender P-Bass wireless guitar controller for $70 as well, and those of you who need a quality drum set can drop the $300 for the ION Drum Rocker set.
But you could just be lucky enough to still have everything working from Rock Band 1.
The rumors are begining to solidify a little bit more as the most recent batch of 80GB PS3’s that have hit the market may actually be running the 65nm RSX GPU.
What does this mean to the average consumer? Well, unless you’re looking to buy a brand new PS3 or upgrade your existing one, not too much. The 65nm processor will of course run at a lower voltage overall, but it won’t be making your games run any smoother.
The only tests so far that have lead to any evidence supporting this claim have been a drop in the power usage by these units while running and idle as well. These support the claims that this chip might be in use as that’s one of the only ways that the system could be running at a lower voltage compared to the older 40GB units.