Category: Gaming

The system this week reintroduced to the world as Apple-esque iSec (Sports Entertainment Center), highlighting centric approach to gaming, with martial arts, skateboarding, and good-old fashioned monster fighting titles having already been demoed. The console will also support wireless controllers of some sort, for those sick of all pesky exercise. The iSec is set to hit China at some point in the second half of this year, though the company has no international sales plan at least until they move million units domestically. The iSec is not having any official competition, since Wii, Xbox, and PS3 are not legally available in China.

The team at Gibrew.org have returned Linux to cell based gaming console with otherOS++, it features number of benefits over Sonys official stab supporting other operating systems. Linux is no longer relegated to a performance-degrading virtual machine has full access to PS3 hardware, it works on both old school fat and slim ones. This install is not for the faint of heart, and some other old models that use NAND flash instead of VFLASH are not compatible. You can download and install this by clicking on the source link.

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata addressed the Vitality Sensors conspicuous absence during a financial presentation, chalking the delay up to differences in biological information in humans. The peripheral is still coming, according to Iwata, but it wont be released until the company can make it work well with 99 percent of consumers a tall order indeed.

I Heart Chaos reports that Cranberryzeros next logical step after purchasing Nintendo 3DS was head down to Blue Flame Tattoo in Raleigh, NC to have gaming systems augmented reality card permanently on his arm. BSZ, he prefers to himself on the blog, was kind enough to share the video of the finished product. Dont forget to check out the video.

AMD now debuted its new desktop level Radeon E6760 discrete GPU, it features both Open CL Support and Eyefinity enhanced support for no less than six independent displays. AMD also notes that the GPU can be paired with its upcoming Llano APU for some additional graphics and parallel computing power, while it might not wind up in many consumer devices, as the company says it is ideal for everything from casino games to medical imaging. For more details read the press release.

With Sony PSN was targeted by an unknown hacker, Sony admitted after a week of silence that users personal information has been compromised. Now an interesting move was made by Sony to get back its loyal user base. In the official FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) released in the event of the current outage, Sony sheds a bit of light about refunding money to the users.

Last Wednesday (April 20, 2011) Sonys PlayStation Network was down. That time Sony said that it is for maintenance and the outage would only last for a day or two. But now, Sony has announced that the outage was due to a hacker infiltrating the system and stealing PlayStation 3 and PSP players personal information. Sony did not comment about whether the data that is stolen included credit card information.Sony said that the personal information of registered PlayStation Network (PSN) has been compromised, that forced them to shutdown the server last week. It believes personal information like Logins, passwords may have been illegally obtained.

Origins EON 17-S gaming notebook, though a $3,000 dent in your wallet could severly compromise your purchasing power for the next few months. That is the starting price for this gaming laptop, with a 2.5GHz Intel Core i7-2920XM Quad-core Processor factory overclocked to 4.5GHz, and max the system out with 32GB of RAM, dual 480GB SSDs and a 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M GPU will send the price tag north of $10,000. We had rather us the money as a down payment on a Tesla Roadster, but if helping to rebuild the economy with the best, brightest, and heaviest computing monster on your lap is just what you need. For more details read the press release

As we reported earlier the rumor about the successor to Nintendos Wii Gaming Console has become true. Nintendo has confirmed its plan to introduce the successor to its gaming console next year. Also Nintendo will reveal this model in the upcoming E3 gaming expo to be held in Los Angeles on June 7th. Still there is no official details about the console and the controllers. But we can hope for a solid improvement in terms of graphics department allowing us to play games at HD. Also we can imagine that Nintendo will come with a improved controller for the new games. Earlier this month Nintendo has lowered the price of Wii by $30 and and started selling them for around $170.

NVidia’s new Optimus Graphics Technology which is available only to notebooks till now, will be launched for desktops at the COMPUTEX 2011 convention in Taipei, Taiwan starting May 31. For those who are new to the term Optimus Graphics Technology of NVidia will allow automatic switching between integrated GPU and discrete GPU as required for optimal performance. This technology offers great graphics performance and better battery life for notebooks.

It really started on Wednesday night, with PlayStation gamers finding their network unresponsive to their login attempts, and now it continues as well. Sony has now finally shed some light on the problems; the culprit for the trouble has been identified as an external intrusion. The current downtime for PSN is second one, with anonymous group of online crusaders climbing responsibility for the first. The PSN blog has added an update to their US website, which suggests the service disruption may not over soon according to Patrick Seybold, the company is rebuilding our system for further strengthen our network infrastructure, and working nonstop to do so.

Arcade Forges SLG3000 scanline generator gives your seemingly flawless HD displays a throwback makeover. It act as a middle one between your VGA compatible device and your TV, bring back the imperfections that marked early console gaming. It enlists a series of DIP switches and a potentiometer for setting scanlines and resolution to your specs. You can load one of your source links for 50. Dont forget to check the video.

What we got today is Sony PSP is not dead yet. While it seems to be disappear from the market, that Japan and Europe are giving up on the downloadable content only devices, Sony of America told to Joystiq that the UMD-less PSP is still go in North America. The Production and sales will continue, you will get the handheld by this year.

The Sony PSP Go is being reported to have completed its production and shipment in Japan, seemingly foreshadowing a worldwide discontinuation of sales. The words from Impress Watch, which gives an official statement from Sony Computer Entertainment that promises support, firmware updates, and repairs for the PSP Go, but no further stock for the device. Sony said it will focus on shifting as many units of that classic device as possible until the NGP strides in and revolutionizes everything.

Nintendo Wiis prices came in sites like Toys R Us and best buy; both of them already have the motion controlled console on sale for $170 today. This doesnt seems to be a permanent price cut, hence it is noted as Limited Time Offer!, but we should not be surprised if other retailers follow the suit in order. With the rumors around like deeper price cuts and possibly new backward compatibility HD machine, every Wii is expected to sell at $170 today.

The PlayStation 3, that venerable old powerhouse of console gaming, has surpassed 50 million units shipped around the globe, while the PS Move Controller introduced late last year has also kept pace and rounded its own milestone with eight million units shipped. Sony reports that the sales to retailers not end users. So they are not directly comparable with retail sales of the competition.

After Nintendo slyly told that the 3DS set a day one US sales record for its handheld division, it has now been forthright and actually disclosed some actually disclosed some cold hard numbers. 400,000 3DS units were sold in a month of March, says Nintendo of America chief Reggie Fils Aime. It was still enough time for it to threaten the DS overall March tally of 460,000 and extrapolated over a full 30 days would total a whopping 2.4 million transactions.

The screenshots shows the Hulu Plus in action on the console, and a shot of Kinect Hub with Hulu and Netflix apps included. The Hulu and Avatar Kinect apps are fully functional, with good tracking of their movements similar to existing uses for the peripheral. The folks at Omni tech news also released a video on the Hulu Plus.