Looking to take that FPS (First Person Shooter) experience to the next level? Are you tired of dropping the enemy like every other gamer out there? Do you want to have the baddest @ssed looking game controller in cyberspace? The the Delta Six game controller may be what you need to add to your gaming [...]
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Crowdfunded,
PC Gaming,
PS3,
XBox
Style is not something that I think of when thinking of a keyboard. However, when I noticed the SteelSeries APEX gaming keyboard while browsing the web recently, that is exactly what I thought – stylish. There are five illumination zones that can each be customized from 16.8 million colors, and the layout of the keyboard [...]
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Computer peripherals,
Gaming keyboard
City Prints is a map company that produces artful maps of a variety of venues – home towns, states, college campuses, stadiums, and more. They expanded their line to include the Pop Culture series (maps of video game, comics, and TV and movie locations) and Computer schematics diagram prints. The image shows maps for Resident [...]
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Art,
Maps,
Schematics
Razer has been known for years for their gaming peripherals. However, at CES 2013, Razer debuted something completely different: the Razer Edge gaming system. Designed specifically for PC gamers, the Razer Edge is a tablet that is capable of playing the latest PC games. It runs Windows 8, which means you get a fully-functioning 10-inch [...]
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Desktop Gaming,
Gaming gear,
Windows 8 Tablet
I enjoy playing games on my iPad, but when it comes to action style games, I miss not having physical controls. Virtual controls are adequate for some games, but for others, they just don’t cut it. That’s why I was excited to accept an offer to review the New Potato Technologies Foosball table. This device turns [...]
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iPad,
Video Games
Pinball may be a game that is known to kids young and old, but it is a game that doesn’t port over to a touch screen very easily. Duo Games now has a controller that can be used with Gameprom’s free Pinball HD Collection app to bring life-like pinball to the iPad. Connecting via Bluetooth, [...]
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iPad accessory,
iPad app,
Pinball
As a gamer, I can appreciate what vibrations can add to the gaming experience. In hand, a vibration to the game controller can alert me I’ve been shot (or am the one shooting), simulate a crash, or imply a massive object moving towards me. This feature is commonplace in gaming vests and chairs, but how [...]
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Gaming gear,
Headphones
Hooray! Valve has finally released the popular gaming platform, Steam, for Linux users. Right now it’s only supported under Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10, using the Unity, Gnome or KDE desktop environments. Steams says that more Linux distributions will be fully supported if/when time permits. Perhaps they will include other popular distributions such as LinuxMint (a fork of [...]
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Gaming,
Linux
Although I’ve only played foosball once or twice so far in my life, I want this Classic Match Foosball iPad accessory from New Potato Tech because it looks like it would be a lot of fun. Up to 4 people can play at once using eight functional 2-axis control bars and real scoring markers at each end. [...]
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Games,
iPad
There’s a plethora of plugin Android devices for televisions these days, but GameStick has concentrated on taking on the gaming consoles market with their GameStick Kickstarter project. Rather than just another Android-OS-on-a-stick experience, the GameStick is all about playing your Android games on the big screen. The plugin stick integrates into the supplied Bluetooth controller [...]
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Android,
Games
This Bluetooth Game Controller from Allputer works with iPhones and even iPads. (Allputer says it has a known problem with Android devices running Android 4.0, but it should be compatible with devices running some other versions of Android.) The controller has a telescoping holder at the top to hold your phone in place, or you [...]
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Gaming accessory for iPhone/iPod touch,
Gaming controller
The Isku FX multicolor gaming keyboard from ROCCAT is designed for the ultimate gaming experience. The backlit keyboard has multicolor lighting with 16.8 million possible colors and six lighting levels. The keyboard is packed with programmable macro keys and three Thumbster macro keys near the space bar. There’s even an Easy-Shift key that not only [...]
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Gaming keyboard
The MG is a WiFi Android device that has been created specifically for kids (and their parents bank accounts). If you own a smartphone and also have children, it’s probably a common thing for them to want to play games on your phone. But giving kids your $500+ device to play games is probably not [...]
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Android,
Gaming
The iPod touch and the iPhone create arguably one of the best-selling handheld gaming systems in the US, if not the world. While not all of them are sold for the purpose of gaming, there are a lot of them out there being used for games as well as other things. That means they’re open [...]
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Game controllers,
Smartphone accessory
My initial thought when Julie asked the Gadgeteer Team, who would like to review the Sphero was ‘cute but I’ll pass’. But upon further consideration, it occurred to me that I have an 11 yr old, tech-savvy son, spaz of a dog and insane cat at home just waiting for something like this to enter [...]
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Android,
Bluetooth Gear,
Geek toy,
iPhone
There is a wide assortment of game controllers coming out for Android devices at the moment, but what if you’re already using your PS3 controller and just need a neater way of attaching it to the Android device? GameKlip started as a Kickstarter project, but it has now been fully funded and is commercially available. With [...]
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Android,
Bluetooth Gear
Combining all the features of a mouse, keyboard and joystick, the Ringbow is a Bluetooth device worn on the finger that complements your Bluetooth-enabled phone, tablet, or similar device. The Ringbow includes a D-pad button with 9 control directions. It can be used to by itself or in conjunction with a touchscreen device, giving a more [...]
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Bluetooth Mouse,
Joystick
I keep reading articles about how the iPad is becoming more and more important as a gaming system, and then I think of how sore my hands and wrists can get after hours of just holding my iPad still while I read. This Indiegogo crowd-funding project for a gaming accessory for the iPad could address [...]
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Gaming accessory,
iPad accessory
Do you like playing foosball, but you don’t want to have to use the table as your dining table to fit it in your living space? The Classic Match Foosball game table from New Potato Technologies is the perfect accessory to turn your iPad (running iOS 5.0 or later) into a game for 1 to [...]
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Retro arcade-style gaming cabinet for iPad