It’s a game console! It’s a laptop!

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

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 [...]

Gunmetal gray PS3s to hit store shelves

Monday, April 14th, 2008

A limited number of special-edition Playstation 3s featuring gunmetal-gray colorway consolesĀ  are set to be released, according to Sony Entertainment. The special release is part of the bigĀ  hoohah over Konami’s new Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, bestowed by gaming aficionados with the surprising moniker of MGS4.
The special edition PS3 will include [...]

1 Million concurrent players: WoW!

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

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 [...]

Hulk smash! Will game be a smash too?

Friday, April 11th, 2008

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 [...]