05/08/08
Skullcrushers. The name sounds more
like a medieval torture device or a fantasy-game clan than it does a desirable headphone system, and the first half of that equation is probably true. Folks in the Middle Ages likely weren't big fans of bass, opting instead for lutes and harps rather than drums and rhythm, so to slip on a headphone system that absolutely glorifies every ounce of bass in a song would probably send serfs into a drumline-induced....
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04/26/08
Much to the chagrin of portable
music-player companies, Apple and its iPod have cornered the market on personal audio devices. Sure, there's the Zune and a host of other MP3 players, but the name "iPod" is as synonymous with "personal music player" as the name "Google" is with "conduct a search online." So it's not surprising that ifrogz has created an entire line of cases for the various iPod iterations, including the new 3G iPod, to let....
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04/04/08
The road to Pixar curves through a
range of neighborhoods, a metaphor not lost on those familiar with the Animation Studio itself. After taking the highway off-ramp, visitors to Pixar's Emeryville, California, headquarters pass into a sleepy part of town, an area where a black Chevy with 14 stuffed animals wedged between its cab and bed seems right at home outside the local market. A place where the 30-something woman walking in bedazzled....
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03/20/08
In case you hadn't heard, the Xbox 360 is
supposed to be replaced by newer, shinier console in 2010. The PS3's replacement will probably roll around a few years later, if only because the PS3 seems much more future-proof and should have a longer shelf life. For that reason alone, I like to consider the PS3 the Twinkie of this console generation. The Wii's successor? All bets are off about when we might see that one, although it will surely....
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03/14/08
Whether you're playing World of Warcraft on your
PC, Call of Duty 4 on your Xbox 360 or Resistance: Fall of Man your PS3, the chances are pretty high you spend about half of your gaming time playing online. Don't feel bad; you're not alone. However, if you're like most of us here at DailyGame, you're also not alone in your constant need for more Cat-5 and routers to keep playing smoothly online. Somehow, there just never seem to be enough Ethernet....
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02/19/08
In the late 1980s (as I recall) came
the hype of Virtual Reality (VR). For $5-$10 at just about any major arcade or shopping mall, you could experience five minutes of virtual bliss. Just step onto a circular platform, put on some weird gloves and clunky goggles, and voila!, you were in a half-finished world with no realism whatsoever. I never had the $5, so I just stood and watched the television screen as other suckers squandered their....
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01/23/08
For the past six years, we've done our
best to give you from-the-hip, honest and timely coverage of videogames and gaming systems. Last fall we expanded into Blu-ray Disc, HD-DVD and home electronics, and judging by your page views, that content has been a refreshing addition. Now we want to hear from you directly: what would you like DailyGame to write about in the coming weeks, months and years? Basically, we're pulling....
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01/14/08
Philips is a powerhouse when it comes to
electronics, whether you're talking HDTVs, home-entertainment systems, digital photo frames or toothbrushes. At CES 2008, the company came to the show with both barrels loaded, showing off its first Profile 1.1 Blu-ray Disc player, a new 700 Series for its FlatTV line and a new Ambisound Home Theater System. With the rush of product announcements at CES, some of Philips'....
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01/09/08
As we unveiled in our news section earlier
today, Corinex has used CES to debut a pseudo-wireless Internet product geared specifically toward gamers. We say "pseudo" because the new product, called GameNet, doesn't use any Cat-5 cables or routers to connect consoles to the Internet. But it doesn't use a WiFi connection, either. So how do Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii gamers use GameNet to play games online? By plugging....
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01/08/08
CES may be home to thousands of home
electronics and technological gadgets, but two trends are really distancing themselves from the pack this year: new HDTV technology and new iPod speaker systems. Among all the iPod docking stations and speaker systems at CES 2008, few stand out like the Tannoy i30. The i30 iPod speaker system is the first digital consumer speaker system from Tannoy, which is known in the UK and....
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01/07/08
Whether you're playing Halo 3, Call of Duty 4 or Gran Turismo 4,
playing games in split-screen mode has its pluses and minuses. The pluses are anchored by the sheer rush you get from playing co-op or versus in person with friends, but that rush is often overshadowed by the biggest minus of split-screen play: having the play area be a small quadrant or, at best, half the screen. Widescreen HDTVs minimize the smallness issue to...
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01/05/08
In the yin and yang of home entertainment,
few companies or consortiums maintain market dominance forever. The "format war" between Betamax and VHS dragged out for just over a decade, with Sony's Betamax technology ultimately falling by the wayside. Likewise, the battle between Laserdisc and VHS endured for 22 years, with Paramount publishing the last Laserdiscs in 2000. Sony and Paramount find themselves at opposite ends....
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12/27/07
The next iteration of Blu-ray playback
, Profile 1.1, is about to head into consumers' hands via a smattering of soon-to-release movies, but some groundwork for Blu-ray Profile 1.1 has already been laid, even if some consumers don't realize it. Last week's PlayStation 3 firmware upgrade included full support for Profile 1.1, a logical step for Sony to take with its PS3 considering Blu-ray is the company's own proprietary format. But....
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12/17/07
The holidays are a great time to
tinker with gadgets, because let's face it, the best electronics come out to play around this time of year. The holidays are also good times to get familiar with electronics that released earlier in the year that you missed, and the Mio C520 Portable GPS System and multimedia player is one such item, for three reasons. First, it's a sexy gadget that just begs for user input. Second, it's an incredibly useful tool for....
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12/11/07
Ladies and gentlemen, whether you want to
admit it or not, Christmas is merely two weeks away. And in case you hadn't noticed, the stores are just a mite busy this year, particularly in the world of video games and electronics. We know you're slammed with work, family and holiday beer -- er, cheer -- so we've taken it upon ourselves to prepare this 2007 Holiday Buyer's Guide with our thoughts on the items that will make....
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12/06/07
You own an Xbox 360. You own a PlayStation 3. 
You own a Mac Mini. You own an HD-DVD player. You own an HD DVR. You own, well, more HDMI-equipped devices than a single HDTV can support. Thus is the conundrum of technophiles and early adopters; when buying the latest HDTVs and high-definition home electronics, there's a point where one product category is always ahead of the rest. And HDMI inputs are just such a point. In the....
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12/06/07
There's a certain sense of luxury when
you open the OPPO HM-31 HDMI switch. For starters, the simple fact that you need an HDMI switch means you've probably got a nice HDTV and home-entertainment setup, which by some folks' account is the very definition of "luxury." On the other hand, there's the quite literal feeling of the velvety sack in which the switch comes packaged inside its box, which gives the same aura as....
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11/26/07
Whether you're talking TVs, stereos or game consoles
, Sony is one of the few electronics companies that reaches both casual consumers and hardcore audio/videophiles. When it comes to pricing, though, Sony is generally known for "high end" MSRPs, even for its less-hardcore products. Yet the company's MDR-DS6000 5.1 wireless headphones bridge both worlds, with plug-and-play ease, a stylish form factor and nice....
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11/26/07
Not all of us can afford buying a top-tier surround system to 
accompany our over priced full 1080 HDTVs. JVC offers an affordable alternative for those of us looking for a home theater in a box that surprisingly has connectivity frills that are usually only available on the higher-priced systems. However, don't expect to fill a large room with an impressive wall of sound as the unit is designed for a....
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11/19/07
With the high-definition video capabilities of
the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, it's easy to overlook the quality of the consoles' audio output. A quick glance at the rest of the home theater, though, shows Blu-ray Disc players and HD-DVD players, both of which make it harder to forget about audio due to their support of uncompressed and master tracks. Traditional surround-sound systems do an admirable job of capturing aural quality, but....
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09/14/07
Disney's Magical Blu-ray Tour strolled into DailyGame's backyard today, giving 
us the chance to get some hands-on time with the "Car Finder" BD-J interactive feature included on Disney/Pixar's Cars, which releases November 6. Disney and Panasonic had plenty to show on the Tour, from the Alien Invasion BD-J game on Chicken Little to the Liar's Dice game on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, but this was the first chance consumers have had to get their hands on Cars' BD-J feature....
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09/06/07
Inspired by the recent Guitar Hero craze, Mattel takes the genre 
a step further and sets out to actually teach gamers how to play guitar. I Can Play Guitar requires no set-up and easily plugs into your television set. The game comes with one cart containing four songs to rock out to, a strap, plug and play chords, and a sticker pack to customize your guitar's appearance. Additional carts can be purchased with songs from the American Idol ....
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09/05/07
As the Blu-ray versus HD-DVD fight continues to unfold
, Walt Disney Studios is showing America quite clearly where it stands: staunchly behind Sony's Blu-ray Disc format. In fact, the company is taking its Blu-ray movies -- including some not yet released, such as Cars and Meet the Robinsons -- to shopping malls across the country on what looks to be a pretty impressive "Magical Tour." Disney's Magical Blu-ray Tour technically....
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08/13/07
I guess we can chalk this one up to 
news of the weird: the Seattle Seahawks (among other NFL teams) are instituting a program this season whereby fans who attend their games at Qwest Field can rent a "Kangaroo TV" to watch other football games on DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket. In theory the concept sounds cool; how often have you been at a sporting event and wondered what else was going on around the league? But I wonder...
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08/06/07
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is one of the last 1980's properties 
I expected to be resurrected from the dead, much less in a completely different medium and as a pseudo-sequel to the previous theatrical films. Yet when the first footage of brothers Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello and Michaelangelo hit the Internet in the form of a trailer, I immediately began to salivate at the thought of TMNT coming home in high definition on...
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08/05/07
Last week Kevin Garnett moved to Boston and effectively created
a new power seat in the Eastern Conference. But as bookies adjusted the Celtics' championship odds, and as pundits gushed over the Allen/Garnett/Pierce triumvirate, few people noted the trade's impact on what, just 24 hours earlier, had been the East's largest off-season deal: Zach Randolph to New York. If you ever needed proof that karma has a way of...
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07/31/07
I've been a space geek for as long as my memory goes back. Space Ghost,
Star Trek, Star Wars, Buck Rogers in the 21st Century, Battlestar Galactica ... really, the list goes on of all the space-based shows I've loved. As a result, Buena Vista Home Entertainment's decision to bring the Roving Mars IMAX film to DVD was a bit of a dream come true. That sounds cliche, I know, but it's true. On this DVD, when the marketing blurb says "you'll feel what it's like to stand on the startling surface of [Mars]," it really...
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03/21/07
Ah, the Internet. A beautiful place, really. 
Limitless information, amazing research resources, active online communities, naked ladies ... what isn't there to like? Oh yeah, fanboys. OK, so 50 percent of the Internet sucks. The rest? Refreshing and entertaining, especially if you like the rumor mill. Months ago an image found its way onto the Internets showing the supposed evolution of Microsoft's next-generation...
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01/11/07
It's not en vogue to say this, but Apple Inc. isn't King Midas. 
The company has certainly made a great recovery in the desktop space, and its "fashionable computing" expertise translated brilliantly to the portable-music arena via the iPod. But like any technology company, Apple's not immune to missteps, and the iPhone might be just such an example. On the surface the iPhone is a great little gadget, and Apple's hardcore fans and techno-geek early-adopters will surely line up....
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12/18/06
Somebody over at Sony needs to stop watching the Weird Al "White Guy" video and taking it so seriously.
Twice in the past seven days, we've received idiotic emails with "this is dope" or "check it peeps" in the headlines. Michael Shelling - we're asking you now, just stop. All we want to know is what's coming out and what's cool about it. Comments in your PR emails like "WTF? My Wii strap broke?" "It's a pretty dope trailer that shows all the buccaneering-badassery..." and finally....
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11/16/06
The gaming and Blu-ray gods smiled down upon us today 
and bestowed a shiny new PlayStation 3 console with a trio of games and the Talladega Nights Blu-ray Disc movie. Since "opening the box" ceremonies have already taken place all across the Internet, I'm going to bypass the celebrated geek ritual and skip to the good stuff: my quick first impressions of Sony's new technological beast while connected to a Westinghouse 47" 1080p television, and compared against...
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05/16/06
One DailyGame reporter questions truth, justice and the American way after an odd but true E3 2006 experience.
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03/25/06
Great for LAN parties, but a little less great for serious gamers.
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03/07/05
Our original-recipe columnist provides some opinionated feedback on the latest next-generation rumors.
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06/25/03
