We’ve all been there: sitting in a hotel with an iPod or smartphone on its last leg, but without the laptop needed to charge the dying battery. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve personally been forced to power-down an iPod until I could get back to the juice-providing safety of a USB port. […]
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The Nintendo E3 press conference and Wii U represent another roll of the dice, another gamble. The same story as five years ago. Only this time the surprise has turned into a groan: “Oh no, not again.” And, like Kinect, a lot of it has to do with the Wii and the way it played out.
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Watching Microsoft’s E3 2011 press conference, I couldn’t help but think Microsoft must not know the Wii came out five years ago, and that 70 million or 80 million households purchased the Wii. Otherwise how you could explain the Kinect Golf demo during their E3 conference? Some will say the opposite. Microsoft knows the Wii
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The Nightwave Sleep Assistant hit my mailbox a few weeks ago, and we thought the trial needed to be longed than a couple of days. I mean, how can a little blue light put you to sleep? Now here I sit, the sarcastic insomniac that I am, writing this review because I think it works!
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When announcing the Nintendo Wii 2 will ship in 2012, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told Bloomberg News, “We would like to propose a new approach to home video game consoles” with the Wii successor. Meanwhile, the Wii 2 hardware rumors mention features like dual analog sticks, a six-inch touchscreen and games that stream directly to
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Nintendo uses Japan as a litmus test for change. And right now and for the past year or so, the Wii routinely it outsold by the PS3. In America it is little different; just replace the PS3 with the Xbox 360. Take that and mix in the Wii’s game lineup, which is the most sparse
A person who was nine years-old in 2004 is now 16 and getting their driver’s license. Those kids have probably entered iPod Touch land. But a whole new crop of kids is entering the 3DS’s prime demographic. Kids that probably haven’t played many Nintendo games before, if any. Because of this, the 3DS will sell
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EA/Dice took Battlefield 2 from 6 years ago and turned it into a free2play game. It is still in beta, but seems to run like garbage. And it looks funny to boot. The soldiers look string beans. Meanwhile the new Battlefield: Bad Company 2 runs much better and it’s a 2010 game with 10x the
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The longer consoles stay stuck on this generation the more it benefits PC gaming. And PC gaming has been calling me back for awhile now. So I whet my appetite this weekend by installing Win7 and playing a little BF:BC2 on my Mac. And wow! It’s been awhile. First thing I realized this weekend is
PC Gaming is Back! Read More »
Nintendo swung into town and let us get hands-on with the sequel before its Wii release. Read our final impressions.
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