Posts for 'Gaming' Category

As the game offerings for the iPhone grow in numbers and sophistication, the touch-screen gadget has emerged as a competitor to hand-held gaming devices such as the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP. The result: Major game companies are rethinking how they handle the market.

It's been two years since the iPhone hit stores, and one since Apple threw open the doors of its online App Store, from which users can download software applications. The store boasts more than 1.5 billion downloads to date.

Some game companies have chosen to join the race by remaking their most popular offerings for the iPhone. In May, video-game giant Sega put out an iPhone version of Sonic the Hedgehog. In June, Electronic Arts, creator of the hugely popular Sims franchise, offered an iPhone version of The Sims 3 that shot to the top of the most-downloaded list despite its $9.99 price tag, steep by App Store standards. (The price has since dropped to $6.99.)

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When you are watching a movie, or playing a video game, you want to be comfortable, but it is not always that easy.  Step 2 has come up with a solution to this with the Rock ‘N Fold Chair.

The Rock ‘N Fold Chair may not look like much, and was rather unimpressive the first time we checked it out to be honest.It is simplistic in a good way though, as this is one great gaming chair.The chair features dimensions of 36” x 18” x 24”, and weighs in at just under 20 pounds.

Setting up the Rock ‘N Fold Chair is extremely easy, all you have to do once you get it out of the box is to set up its padding on the chair, and you are good to go.  Once you are all set up, you can take a seat in this chair and feel right at home.

This is an extremely comfortable chair, perfect for the majority of teenage gamers out there.The chair comes fully assembled, meaning you don’t have to go crazy to try and put it all together.

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Believe it or not, this contraption is indeed a high-specced gaming machine, even if its outward appearance suggests the melding of Mica-coloured SS Commodore and an autobot. Launched by Acer yesterday, I'm sure the G7700 made more than a few people wet themselves - some over its looks, others over the price (we'll get to this).

Inside this metallic box sits an Intel 3GHz QX9650 (or a 2.66GHz Q9450 if the budget won't stretch); not one, but two NVIDIA 9800GTXs in SLI; 8GB of RAM (or less for the thrifty); a Creative X-Fi sound card; and "advanced" liquid cooling. All this adds up to 45kg of raw power, or cooked power, if the cooling happens to give.

How much is this majestic compilation of hardware? Just a ball-snapping $4,500, including GST. Yeah, I'd still prefer to build my own for much less as well. Love the case, though.

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Sony Corp. is reportedly negotiating licensing deals with studios to distribute videos online through a long-promised service for the PlayStation 3.

Citing studio executives who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the negotiations, The Los Angeles Times reported Monday that Sony could launch the service as early as the summer.

A Sony spokesman declined to comment.

"We don't have anything new to announce at this time," Sony spokesman Patrick Seybold said in an e-mail.

But a Sony marketing executive said in a blog post last week that news could come soon.

"Ultimately the goal of the PlayStation Network service will be to break through the overwhelming clutter of digital media to give you the TV, movies and gaming content you want. More on this very soon," Sony's Peter Dille wrote on its PlayStation blog.

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The PlayStation.blog reports today that the formerly impossible to create Dualshock 3 controller for PlayStation 3 will arrive in stores next week.

 "Rumble is back with the DualShock 3 wireless controller for PlayStation 3," said Kristin Neirinckx, Associate Product Manager for Sony Computer Entertainment America. "These are shipping to store shelves as we speak, so be on the lookout for them next week." They'll sell for $54.99.

Neirinckx also posted a list of DualShock 3-compatible games, which included MotorStorm, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, and EA's Burnout Paradise. Titles in the list with an asterisk, like Motorstorm, will require a patch in order to activate the rumble feature, she said.

The patch will automatically download to your PS3 if your console is connected online.

As expected, Sony will discontinue the sale of the motion-only, $50 Sixaxis controller as a result. "Sixaxis will no longer be offered after it's completely sold through at retail (likely by the summer timeframe)," a company representative told MTV Multiplayer on Wednesday.

Sony said on Tuesday it will add the Skype telephone service to its slim PlayStation Portable handheld console in Japan this month, enabling users to make free or low-cost telephone calls.

Sony will start selling microphones for the PSP-2000 in the Japanese market on March 19 as part of its efforts to broaden the appeal of its video game consoles amid fierce competition with rival Nintendo.

After a system software update planned for March 18, PSP users will be able to chat for free to other Skype users and, for a charge, call landlines and mobile phones anywhere in the world, Sony's game unit said in a statement.

The service was started for the PSP in Europe and the United States in January but Sony was forced to delay the launch in Japan because the microphones did not meet the Skype specifications.

Skype, which was bought by eBay in October of 2004, uses a peer-to-peer (P2P) network to enable users to make free Internet telephone calls to one another through their computers.

Users can also use the service to call landlines or mobile phones at low rates.

If your primary motivation in choosing an MP3 player is its ability to match your shoes then you're in luck, sissy. Sony's newest NW-E-series of Walkman USB sticks come in ¥16,000 (about $149) NW-E026F (4GB), ¥13,000 ($121) NW-E025F (2GB), and ¥11,000 ($102) the NW-E023F (1GB) flavors with plenty of interchangeable shells to keep up with your wardrobe. They support ATRAC/MP3/WMA/AAC and Linear PCM with an FM tuner thrown in for good measure. But hey, nobody as hip as you listens to FM now do they? Look for these to go global with the addition of DRM'd WMA but without Sony's proprietary ATRAC format sometime after the Japanese launch on March 8th.

Nowadays great efforts are made in order to simplify our life activity. Thus, there is no need to spare a lot of time in order to perform any operation because just a single touch is enough for modern devices to understand what exactly you want them to do. However, we should never stop at what has been accomplished.

Victor Soto who designed a new interesting gadget also adheres to this principle. His concept iRing represents a high-end ring, which helps you by means of Bluetooth technology and a tiny touch screen to control Apple devices, such as iPod and iPhone. Although it's available just in two colors - black and white - it can be considered as a very stylish device with well-known Apple symbol on it. This Apple symbol serves as an indicator that shows a current state of a device, which is under iRing's control. There is no need to take iPod out of your pocket in case you want to change track. Built-in battery will ensure a few days of continuous functioning. So, you can charge it just two or three times a week.

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"The number you are trying to reach is momentary unavailable, please try again later". This is the phrase we all hate to hear, but sometimes we find it very useful. Do you feel the need to become unreachable to everybody in this world? Do you have an important meeting or conference or do you simply need some silence?

There is no need to turn the phone off, you just need to pop the cell phone into a magic bag and no calls will get through.

This gadget is the mobile phone signal blocking bag. It looks as a common cell bag and will fit any phone as its dimensions are - 104*93*4mm.

It does not matter what network you use. The blocking bag blocks all mobile phone signals and all frequ

The Nokia 6300 is compact in design with stainless-steel covers and a sleek finish. It is 106.4mm long and 43.6mm wide. It has a thickness of 11.7mm and is a pretty light phone with a weight of 91g. It has GSM operating frequency with EDGE coverage. It has a 2 inch QVGA main display with up to 16.7 million true colors and a new enhanced Series 40 user interface.

The Nokia 6300 has a 2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom to capture quality images, full screen viewfinder, video recorder and player. It has email client that enables you to access your email on the go and also send messages with attachments, OMA MMS 1.2 for receiving, editing and sending multimedia messages, Push to talk, instant messaging and Nokia Xpress on audio messaging which is a fast and simple way to send voice or sound clips through MMS.

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