Gaming

Sony Playstation 3 40GB

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Due to be released on Wednesday 10th October, finally a cheaper Playstation 3 model at £300. Around a £125 saving can be had if you buy the cut down version of the PS3. So lets get down to the important bit what’s been cut from the model.
Backwards Compatibility with PS2 Games
So your not going [...]

Halo 3 Game - Microsoft Free Disk Replacement Service

Friday, September 28th, 2007

The new Halo 3 game from Microsoft has certainly been freed into the market and has already earned more than 83m in only 24 hrs into its release.
Halo 3 Fix
The Halo 3 game is for the Xbox 360 but there have been problems with some of the disks sent out being scratched. Microsoft [...]

Extended Warranty on Xbox 360 ’s

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

And about time too… we can hear a great crowd of people shouting. The standard warranty on an Xbox 360 will now be increased from a year to 3 years and will be given free to all customers who experience a problem.
This hasn’t come as a huge surprise now that you think about it, [...]

Genius Navigator 335 USB Carbon Mouse

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

This Genius mouse takes navigation into the fast lane, at its low price of £19.99 from Genius Mouse you can hardly believe the high levels of quality, feel and sleek looks targeted at the professional gamer and business executive.
Its unique modish carbon fibre cover belies build quality only associated with the most expensive of input [...]

Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

Why is it that we always have to wait for new technology to arrive in Europe when our gaming counterparts across the pond get everything first. We refer to the Xbox 360 Elite that was released in the US stores at the end of April. In Europe we will have to wait until at least [...]

Where Has Techlounge Been?

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Our regular readers will have noticed that Techlounge has been a bit quiet over the last couple of months, and some of you will be wondering what we have been up to.
No excuses really… just that lots of other work came up which meant we didn’t have the time to review the products that we [...]

Playstation 3 Uk Launch

Monday, January 29th, 2007

It’s what we have all been waiting for, the news of the launch date for the Playstation 3. So a date to put in your diary is March 23rd 2007.
This is very exciting as what makes the PS3 different from the likes of the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii is the Blu-ray drive and [...]

Nintendo Wii Wrist Strap Recall

Friday, December 15th, 2006

There has been much hype and excitement over the launch of the Nintendo Wii with it’s revolutionary Wii controller. As with all consoles that get released these days it seems, there is a problem with it.
It seems that the wrist strap is weak and therefore causes the controller to be launched across rooms striking objects, [...]

TickMe - New Social Networking Site

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

After telling you about the Pixelotto site last week I thought I’d let you know about an exciting new social networking site called TickMe that launched very recently.
Forget about MySpace and FaceParty as these are getting fairly dated and abused now. This new site brings in the much needed extra level of privacy as well [...]

Gameboy Advance

Monday, December 4th, 2006

Another great handheld is being pushed off the shelf to make way for newer models, here at Techlounge we think that the Gameboy Advance has at least another year left in it, as it is ideal for the 5-7 years olds that can’t quite grasp the DS, also the games can be picked up fairly [...]