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We all know online gaming– World of Warcaft, Lord of the Rings Online, and all those other immersive, sprawling time suckers– can get pretty addictive, and some of us are more addicted than others. Well if you do your compulsive online gaming on a Mac, here’s something that might help: an application that disables your [...]

Define Godlike: you think it, and it is so. Or if you’re an atheist, think of it as telekinesis practice, moving things with just your mind. I’m talking about Emotiv’s EPOC game control helmet, which allows players to move items on their screens by just thinking about it. It reads your mind–no, really– using 16 [...]

If the biggest Nintendo announcement in recent times–its newest accessory, the Wii Motion Plus–isn’t enough to get your pulse racing in anticipation of increased precision for your existing Wiimote controller, here’s a quick cheap thrill: the Wii add-on’s going to be very reasonably priced. So says Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, during a Wall Street Journal [...]

So the prices came out earlier this week for Intel’s latest batch of processor chips, and boy those Core 2 Extreme Quad-Cores cost a bundle. Way more than earlier reports led us to believe. Why? Is it because desktops have been making a comeback lately, thanks to frugal techies looking for a cheaper alternative to [...]

It could the next generation in motion-sensitive gaming: the Darwin controller. Like Nintendo’s Wii controller, it transmits the player’s movements to the gaming console, which converts them into in-game actions. But what makes the Darwin different (and possibly dangerous to the Wii) is that its sensors don’t rely on infrared in order to orient itself [...]

What else can you do with your gaming machine? No really, what else? Aside from using it as a doorstop? Sony wants your Ps3 to become your music, TV episode and movie download outlet. And while you’re waiting for your download you can check the out the weather or the news. The Xbox 360 can [...]

Sales forecasting company Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR) has predicted in a note to investors that Microsoft will likely announce a price cut for it Xbox 360 game console in the USA at E3 this year. It was added that such a price cut would probably have Sony following suit with a similar price [...]

Don’t click on the image above! The link to the actual video is at the end of this post. This Youtube vid-slash-flash-lecture is by a certain Daniel Floyd, who works at the Savannah College of Art and Design. In it he explores the oft-discussed relationship between video games and sex. You can watch the clip [...]

The Nintendo Wii, Microsoft’s XBox 360, and the Sony Playstation 3 all contain too much bromine, according to environmental watchdog group Greenpeace. Bromide is classified by Greenpeace as a chemical that’s hazardous to the environment,and the PS3 had the highest levels of it. The XBox and PS3 also had beryllium-containing alloys, which Greenpeace found worrisome. [...]

A far as Microsoft is concerned, the video game retailer GameStop has put a stop to the Zune game. Gamestop says it decided to cease Zune sales because it wasn’t a gaming gadget. It has been selling Zune, however since 2006, when the gadget first launched. Gates and co., though, have thus far shrugged the [...]

Carnegie Melon University researchers hope that gamers visiting their new website, www.gwap.com, can help make computers smarter. How? By playing online games. For example, in the game “Tag a tune”, humans add tags to describe whether audio clips are “sad”, and so on. This helps computers learn to do stuff better, like image and audio [...]

Is Microsoft developing a motion-sensitive controller similar to Nintendo’s Wiimote? The project, supposedly codenamed “Newton”, has been making the rounds but Microsoft Game Studios head Shane Kim sort of put down the rumors, though he stopped short of a full denial. Meanwhile, Yu Suzuki’s masterly Shenmue series is supposed to be up for a Nintendo [...]

Nintendo is making eight arcade style games available for its Wii gaming console on May 20… and they can be had via internet download! The following games can be purchased online using Wii points, which can be purchased using a credit card at stores found at the average High Street: Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles: My [...]

PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game. You play it by… not playing? You join, you browse the internet doing everything you usually do (or not), and your online actions are translated into in-game events like level-ups, missions and apparently even some kind of PvP melee combat. It certainly brings new meaning to the term [...]

Professor Jonathan Zittrain of the Oxford Internet Institute has published a book entitled “The Future of the Internet and How To Stop It”. In it he says the latest must-have gadgets like the XBox 360 b and iPhone stifle creativity and turn their owners into passive users of technology. Increasingly tighter controls on production of [...]

Antivirus company Sophos has posted an alert on its website about a trojan/virus program designed specifically to steal information pertaining to the victim’s online gaming. Hacked accounts and stolen passwords are a big enough problem already, and now it seems identity thieves are becoming increasingly savvy about how they do it. Make sure you’re protected; [...]

Reports from Taiwan suggest that an ASUS subsidiary there is in the process of developing a version of Microsoft’s XBox 360 gaming console that supports Blu-ray discs. There’s been news before of Lite-On making a stand-alone Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360, but this is the first news to go in the direction of built-in [...]

A factory fire in South Korea last month caused enough damage to affect the global supply of lithium-ion batteries, and analysts are predicting a lithium-ion battery shortage that could last at least three months. Thankfully, large companies with multiple suppliers won’t feel the pinch, but if you do your gaming on low-cost machines like the [...]