Gaming Technology Blog

FIle this one under “Only in Japan…”
A Toyama-based pharmecutical company has developed a line of vitamin supplement targeted specifically at the gaming community, and long-haul gamers in particular.
These “Game Suppli”capsules are taken twice a day and reatil for about 880 yen for a pack of 30 capsules.
There are currently two varieties: a concentration-booster with omega-3 [...]

This modder named Ben Heckendorn (a.k.a. ‘Heck’) took apart a Sony Playstation 3, took the bits and used them to make a working, portable PS3 laptop, pictured above. Pretty cool, no?
Features:
60GB PS3
17″ HDTV 720p screen with HDMI connection
built-in keyboard
stereo amplifier
weight: 7.26kg
dimensions: 431.8mm x 349.3mm x 76.2mm
The unit apparently is not for sale, but will be [...]

Newsweek’s videogame pundit N’gai Croal had a nice thoughtpiece on on parents, kids’ gaming, ratings and Grand Theft Auto 4.
Not being a parent himself, Croal just forwards concerned parents (”Should I let my kids play GT4?”) to websites like whattheyplay.com, which, instead of telling parents whether or not to let their kids play the [...]

So according to Blizzard Entertainment, the number of its Chinese concurrent users for the massively mulitplayer role-playing game World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusades have passed the one milion mark–the highest ever rate since they launched the game there in 2005.
Be prepared for a tidal wave of web-jokes about everyone in China doing something at [...]

Edward Norton, Liv Tyler and William Hurt are set to star in the second Hollywood movie based on the Marvel comic character The Incredible Hulk.
But the big gaming news here is, they’re also starring in the video game. All of them.
No gaming console info or release dates as of yet from game developer Sega [...]

Not that he’s a gamer. Not that he even likes video games. But when the horrormeister learned of a bill in Massachusetts state seeking to ban violent video game sales to kids under the age of 18, his eyes went white and his head started spinning around and… oh wait that wasn’t his.
via Yahoo [...]