For those of you dreaming of a super-fast gaming laptop that’s also adorned with a chic red and pink “flame” pattern, your days of searching are over. Enter the Qosmio X305, Toshiba’s entry into the lap-cooking gamer notebook market. The X305 features a 3GHz dual-core Intel CPU, a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphics chipset, dual [...]
Continue reading...12. June 2008
While we’ve heard rumors of Nintendo manufacturing a USB hard drive to compliment the Wii, a new job advertisement adds even more credence to the speculation. Posted three days ago, the ad calls for a “Software/Hardware Tester” who can implement a “test plan for Wii’s USB devices.” So a hard drive is [...]
Continue reading...12. June 2008
Microsoft’s red ring Xbox 360 problems have cost the company about a billion dollars in warranty repairs, but the research vice president and chief analyst at Gartner said that the hardware problems were caused because Microsoft wanted to be cheap. Instead of using an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) vender to make a graphics chip for [...]
Continue reading...11. June 2008
Some wily web browsers have found a job listing at Nintendo of America that suggests the game company is finally getting serious about USB support for the Wii. The job search, found a few days ago, was for a “Software/Harware Tester” who can execute a “test plan for Wii’s USB devices.” Some think this could [...]
Continue reading...9. June 2008
By Andrew Liszewski Good news for PSP owners who have come to rely on the gaming device as their portable media player. At the recent Computex show in Taipei, a company called PhotoFast was showing off a couple of adapters that can boost the PSP’s storage capacity up to 32GB. The CR-5400 (pictured on the right) [...]
Continue reading...9. June 2008
Wait a second — you mean ASUS actually had something other than subnotes at Computex? Tucked away in some surely obscure corner were these two gems: the 15.6-inch G50V and 17-inch G71V. The first of the two rigs was packing a 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT graphics card, a WXGA “3D display,” Intel’s Centrino 2 [...]
Continue reading...8. June 2008
Grand Theft Auto is one of the greatest, most controversial, and most notorious game brands to ever exist. Despite the amazing success of the newest addition to the series, Grand Theft Auto IV was not released for the Nintendo Wii console. Maybe they were waiting for the right time to release the game. Say, when [...]
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