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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
It has been revealed that we can expect the new Playstation 3 console, that is due to be released in the Autumn, to be completely backwardly compatible. This means that it will have the capability to play every single Playstation game ever produced including the games for the original Playstation, the PSOne and PS2.
Sony apparently [...]
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
These 3 racing carts have been officially licensed by Nintendo themselves so expect these to be great. You can choose from Donkey Kong, Yoshi and of course Mario. It would have been nice to see Mushroom and Princess too but you can’t expect everything and hopefully we may see them if these are a big [...]
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Friday, June 9th, 2006
Well it’s kind of a gadget and kind of not.
Covered in Swarovski crystals the Retro VW Camper Van certainly has been pimped by MTV, but did we mention it’s not full size. This VW Camper has a small needle underneath and a amp and speaker built in and drives round your Dads vinyl collection. [...]
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Rumour has it from a thread posted in the Nintendo insider forums, that at E3 gamers were not actually playing on the Nintendo Wii. Pictures which have surfaced seem to show leads from a Wii leading into a Gamecube. Which may suggest that the Wii was only an outer casing and was only for show [...]
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Ordinary coffee table? We don’t think so! This is a stealth tabletop. Manufactured by Design Concepts it has a 19 inch screen built into it and can be used for all sorts of tasks. The main feature of this is that you can spec it up to be compatible with any mulitmedia feature. For example [...]
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Sony yesterday unveiled two new “portable cinemas” the D-VE7000S and the DVP-FX810.
The D-VE7000S is shown on the right and is a classy looking tablet design which is barely larger than a DVD case. The D-VE7000S will be lightwieght, compact and come fully supplied with sound isolating walkman headphones, a speaker cradle and with an [...]
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Monday, May 22nd, 2006
With the anticipation building over the launch of the Nintendo Wii, there is mixed feeling towards the new controller that Nintendo have released. The design of the console is vert striking but the thing that really catches the eye is the Wii’s controller. It is the first controller announced which features motion sensor technology (Sony [...]
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Monday, May 22nd, 2006
Nintendo’s next generation console which was known as the Revolution has now officially been re-named the Nintendo Wii. This would appear to be a totally bizarre name, but Nintendo insists that the reasoning behind the name is that “Wii sounds like “we,” which is simple really. Nintendo says the name needs no abbreviation because people [...]
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
Ok so at E3 the new PS3 controller was shown…. “Hang on that’s the old controller”.
Ok, it looks like the old controller but they have taken out the rumble technology and added something much better. The new PS3 controller now has motion sensors X-Y-Z, pitch, roll, and lateral motion detection. Hopefully it will be like [...]
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Friday, April 21st, 2006
The Xbox 360 has now been out for six months and it has suffered various problems as documented in our Xbox 360 Faults and Problems post, but has generally been a success with gamers finding it the ultimate in graphics and gameplay. By the end of June it is expected that Microsoft will have [...]
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