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Rock Band Drum Kit Now Out

Drummers who have been waiting for the one Rock Band drum kits can now breathe easy as these plastic drums are finally available at a retailer near you. Three months is a lengthy instance to wait, particularly for those who don’t want to drop a whole wad of cash for the initial bundle. Still, th…

Wii Sensor Bar comes with Clock

I certainly know how fast date flies whenever you’re having fun, and even more so with the Nintendo Wii. Cyber Gadget’s wireless Wii sensor bar has a solution that ought to help you keep track of duration, since it comes with a clock tacked onto it. It plus looks a whole lot better than what Nin…

Zune to get Multiplayer Gaming

While the Zune is pretty adept and sharing files wirelessly and keeping you occupied with audio and video, it really falls short in the other entertainment segment - games. Thankfully, Microsoft will soon take advantage of its wireless capability to introduce that element into gaming. Hopefully …

Wii Fit US Launch in May

Looks like the Wii Fit will be landing on US shores that May, enabling folks living Stateside to take advantage of the weight-and-motion sensing device known as the Wii Balance Board right smack in the middle of their comfortable living room. that isn’t an exercise replacement, so spending too m…

Second Life Heads For Mobiles

Looks like cell phone owners aren’t left out of the Second Life loop either, with Vollee planning on rolling out technology which makes it possible for Second Life to run on 3G handsets courtesy of Vollee’s streaming media service. Sounds like a pretty impressive feat, considering how Second Lif…

Alienware Gets Penryn Processors

Alienware isn’t too slow tot he game by offering Intel Penryn processors in their Area-51 m15x laptop, featuring a choice of T- and X-series Core 2 Duo processors. whether you think that the standard 2.5GHz T9300 is not fast sufficient for you, there is always the upgrade option of a 2.6GHz T950…

Mario Kart Wii Wheel: Good or poor?

Mario Kart has definitely evolved by the years, from the solo days of the SNES version to Double Dash on the GameCube where you get to play as a tag team. With Mario Kart Wii hitting retail game shelves that spring, it will introduce a totally new gameplay element - the Wiimote is placed right i…

Rumor: Blu-Ray Xbox 360 in May?

The latest post-DVD-war rumor is that Microsoft is set to “dump HD DVD and bring out a Blu ray Xbox 360 by as early as May 2008”, according to smarthouse. The authors say that they have learned that from insiders at Microsoft. The exposition ends with “Both Intel and Microsoft have been su…

Nintendo Character Evolution Shows How Compute Graphics Have Evolved

Geekologie has a cool post (and most importantly image) about the evolution of three historic game characters from Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong.

While I’m not certain that all the images fit a global respective timeline, but we can say for certain that that shows how far computer graphics…

Wii Sales To Surpass Xbox 360 that Year

Market analysis firm iSuppli predicts that the Nintendo Wii will surpass the Xbox 360 that year in terms of sales, although they still maintain that the PS3 will outsell both by 2011. 2011 is still three years away - would the PS3 receive a more effective rival from Microsoft and Nintendo by soo…

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