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  • The G-Mate Gun Overlord – Real or Fake?

    The G-Mate Gun Overlord – Real or Fake?

    Posted on April 16, 2010 | No Comments
    We're not entirely sure this thing exists in real life. The G-mate Gun Overlord just seems a bit too glorious. Even the video after the jump isn't enough proof. If it is real though, watch out, it could be awesome. Unless of course it's not and actually really lame.

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  • Researchers: Playing video games before bedtime doesn’t keep you up all night

    Researchers: Playing video games before bedtime doesn’t keep you up all night

    Posted on April 16, 2010 | No Comments
    I remember when I was a kid playing the NES and I'd always play until about nine or ten at night and then go to bed and read until 2AM or so. While you could feasibly correlate the fact that playing games kept me up - my grandma always did and she said I'd always get too "excited" when I played SMB or something else equally thrilling - apparently there is no causation between the two. According to a Flinders University study, gaming did not cause sleeplessness or sleep impairment. The study focused on teens with a mean age of 16, however, and the researchers found that younger teens may be more impaired by thrilling games. They played CoD 4: Modern Warfare, incidentally, so it doesn't get more thrilling than that.

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  • Optoma GameTime projectors now available

    Optoma GameTime projectors now available

    Posted on April 14, 2010 | No Comments
    While we've come to know Optoma mainly for their pico projectors, they do make larger versions as well. Case in point, their latest product line, the GameTime series. Targeted at computer and console gamers, the GameTime line use DLP tech from Texas Instruments support resolutions specific to the Xbox 360, Wii, and PS3.

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  • Texas Hold ‘em on the Microsoft Surface

    Texas Hold ‘em on the Microsoft Surface

    Posted on March 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Games like this are exactly why Microsoft Surface is going to be a compelling platform. Some students ported Texas Hold ‘em to Surface, but added the ability to look at your cards from a mobile device. Placing a bet is as easy as dragging a chip on to the playing field, and you can even [...]

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  • This Brink trailer makes me want a TF2 Borderlands mashup

    This Brink trailer makes me want a TF2 Borderlands mashup

    Posted on March 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Don’t get too excited like I did. While Brink is really an upcoming game, it’s not going to be like the video above. It’s a full-featured console and PC shooting that’s supposed to come out this fall. But this trailer, made with the sounds and themes of Team Fortress 2, conjures up thoughts of how [...]

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  • DIY: Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a Ukulele

    DIY: Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a Ukulele

    Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Here's an interesting modification for a Guitar Hero controller. An anonymous modder posted a project to Instructables showing how to convert a full size controller to a small size. The modder converted his to a smaller size for his two year old daughter, but whatever your reason is, it looks like a fairly easy thing to do.

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  • This is not my beautiful 3D television: How gaming will change the 3D equation

    This is not my beautiful 3D television: How gaming will change the 3D equation

    Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments
    I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit in the past few weeks and Adam Frucci wrote something that caught my attention, concentrating my thoughts the way a seed crystal builds boules of material in the Czochralski process. Gaming will make or break 3D. I don’t care if James Cameron sends miniature 3D cameras into [...]

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  • Play (rock paper scissors) with yourself

    Play (rock paper scissors) with yourself

    Posted on March 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Self proclaimed glove hacker and electronics wiz Steve Hoefer just came out with his latest project, the Rock Paper Scissors glove. His project isn't just random either, the glove actually learns how you play and will take advantage of your patterns in order to defeat you. Kind of creepy.

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  • The Pokemon return: HeartGold and SoulSilver

    The Pokemon return: HeartGold and SoulSilver

    Posted on March 10, 2010 | No Comments
    So I got a random delivery today, and I was quite surprised to see it was from Nintendo. Even more surprising was when I opened the box and saw they had sent me the two latest Pokemon games, HeartGold and SoulSilver. What was even more interesting was when I started to read the enclosed literature that explained exactly what's new about these two games.

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  • The iTable continues to develop and show gaming potential

    The iTable continues to develop and show gaming potential

    Posted on March 10, 2010 | No Comments
    We've told you about the iTable before, and PQ Labs. They showed off their latest stage in the development process at CeBIT this year, by installing the screen into a coffee table. The newest version can register up to 32 touch points and actually determine the shape of the object being placed on the screen.

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  • Test Drive Unlimited 2 promises to seamlessly blend online and offline play

    Test Drive Unlimited 2 promises to seamlessly blend online and offline play

    Posted on March 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Atari has announced Test Drive Unlimited 2, coming in the Fall to Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. While the first version of the game contained both online and offline modes, this new version “is ‘always live,’ with automatic updates and seamless online/offline integration. A revamped single player narrative mode can be played offline or as part of the multiplayer experience.”

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  • Nice Doggie: Puppy Arcade 7 available

    Nice Doggie: Puppy Arcade 7 available

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Of all the wonderful uses for Linux, gaming hasn’t traditionally been one of its stronger suits. But as we all know, old console emulators provide eons of entertainment and said emulators run across a variety of operating systems. And so there’s Puppy Arcade, a derivation of the small-footprint, runs-on-just-about-any-hardware Puppy Linux.

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  • CrunchDeals: DJ Hero (Xbox 360) for $59

    CrunchDeals: DJ Hero (Xbox 360) for $59

    Posted on February 25, 2010 | No Comments
    If the $120 price tag that initially accompanied DJ Hero as it made its way to market in late October of last year seemed a bit steep to you (and apparently, you weren’t alone) then you may be interested to hear that you can get the Xbox 360 bundle for $59 from JR.com.

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  • No new Wii ‘any time soon’ says Nintendo

    No new Wii ‘any time soon’ says Nintendo

    Posted on February 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Don’t expect new console hardware from Nintendo in the near future. When asked “When do you think it’ll be time for new hardware?” in a recent interview with Gamespot, Nintendo’s Cammie Dunaway replied, “I don’t think it’ll be any time soon because even though our installed base is, at this point, 5 million households larger than the PS2 installed base was at the same point in its lifecycle, it still has a lot of room to grow.”

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  • Blip gets reverse-engineered. Proves that the computer was cheating.

    Blip gets reverse-engineered. Proves that the computer was cheating.

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Hand-held electronics are marvels of miniaturization. The ones that existed before I was born, even more so. Anyone who played Blip might be interested to know two things. First, despite being titled “The Digital Game”, it was in fact 100% mechanically driven. Second, the game was, as you may have claimed many times, actually impossible [...]

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