The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
Well, we have NPD sales reports for US console sales for the month of January. Wii was on top once again, but surprising to some, the PS3 edged out the 360 by 39,000 units. Lets serve up some hot and fresh figures. TV Top ConsolesWii: 274,000 unitsPS3: 269,000 unitsPS2: 264,000 unitsXbox 360: 230,000 units HandheldsNintendo…
Well, it’s official. Rumors had been floating over the internet for sometime about this. Both BioWare and its new parent EA Games have decided to port Mass Effect over to PC. They plan to optimize the game for PC gameplay including support for a variety of resolutions, optimized PC controls complete with user customizable key…
Once again, Apple has released a relatively minor update to their two flagship mobile products, the iPhone and the Touch. This time, memory capacity has been doubled. A common complaint about the iPhone is the 8gb memory capacity. It’s been doubled to 16gb. The Touch gets 32gb of flash memory. Both will retail for about…
Ok, lets launch off another game review. 2006 was a very good year for gaming. It’s 2008 now and gaming is moving along well. So why am I reviewing a PS2 game that’s over a year old? Well, because it’s coming out on Nintendo Wii on April 15th. I already mentioned Okami in my top…
Apple released several new products at MacWorld 08. One of them was the Macbook Air, an ultralight laptop that is only 3/4 of an inch thick and weighs in at 3lbs. Apple claims it’s so thin, it can fit into a legal sized envelope. Rounding out the other specs includes a 1.6ghz or 1.8ghz Core…
The PS3 has been hammered a lot lately for the quality of its games, and up until late Fall 2007, I’d be inclined to agree with those people. The long running joke that Xbox fanboys have is that the PS3 is nothing more than a folding machine. Fall came around with some unusually strong titles….
Big news from the CES in Vegas this week regarding Playstation 3 and Blu-ray. Sony demoed a future PS3 feature which will allow PS3 owners to legally rip BD movies to their PSP or a memory stick. The converter rips the movie and downconverts it to a lower resolution for playback on their media player….
People sometimes wonder why I would buy a PS3 instead of a 360, considering 360 has the better games and has more players. I would hardly call myself a Sony fanboy since they’ve pulled a lot of crap in the past. However, with the trouble 360 users are having, choosing a next gen console was…