Gaming Gear

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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Playing video games is fun for one player and even more fun when you team up with a virtual friend or one sitting next to you on your couch. Do you think the fun factor can be elevated even more by using special game controllers that connect together to provide live interactions? The minds behind [...]

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Love karaoke but can’t sing at work ? Think you’re a gun typist ?  Typing Karaoke is a game that merges the two together. Choose from 10 songs like LMFAO’s Sexy and I Know It or Stray Cat’s Rock This Town and type along. Choose a slow song to warm up your vocal … ummm [...]

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Available from PowerA, the MOGA  is a Bluetooth-enabled gaming controller made to support Bluetooth-enabled Android 2.3+ smartphones and tablets.  With dual analog sticks, shoulder triggers and 4 buttons, you’ll have full control over your favourite games.   It can be used as a standalone controller with your tablet, or your  phone can sit into the [...]

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To celebrate 25 billion downloads, the Google Play Store is having a sale for the next 5 days: “Every day you’ll be able to choose from a collection of apps from some of the world’s top developers including Gameloft, Electronic Arts, Rovio, runtastic, Full Fat and more. And all for just 25 cents. “We’ll also be offering [...]

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There’s no denying the fact that people love playing games on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Using the capacitive touch screen to play puzzle and word games on these devices is fun and easy. But playing action games using an on screen touch controller is less fun and less easy. At least for me… I find that [...]

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One of my favourites games of all time is Mario Kart, and I’ve played it on every Nintendo console system released so far. Well Nintendo has  just announced release schedules and pricing for their new Wii U, another platform for me to get my Karting fix. Their new console will be available in two versions; the White [...]

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To celebrate the 40th Anniversary since the launch of Pong, Atari and Microsoft have partnered to allow gamers to play eight classic Atari video games via any HTML5-enabled browser. Asteroids, Combat, Centipede, Lunar Lander, Missile Command, Pong, Super Breakout, and Yar’s Revenge are available to play in Atari’s Arcade. For Microsoft, it’s an opportunity to demonstrate the power of HTML5. For Atari, [...]

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The Naga series of gaming mice from Razer, in my opinion, are some of the best gaming mice out there.  There are a few models in the Naga series, but we’ll be looking at the one simply called the Razer Naga.  Let’s give it a closer look after the jump.

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The MG is a new Kickstarter project looking to score a whopping $950,000 in pledges. What is it? It’s a handheld Android WiFi gaming device. They are calling it the first portable Android gaming system, but I disagree. First of all, this device is not really that much different than the non-smartphone Android handhelds already on [...]

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I want to see a show of hands… who remembers the Tapwave Zodiac Palm OS PDA? Back in 2003 it was a very cool device that merged a  PDA with built in gaming controls. The new GamePad from ARCHOS reminds me a little bit of the Zodiac because it offers a full set of analog [...]

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I haven’t used a mouse pad in years because my 6yr old Logitech MX Revolution wireless mouse doesn’t need one. That said, all I’m doing is normal stuff while surfing and writing. Gamers are more high maintenance than I am. They require a mouse pad like the Sense Chrome Blue High Precision Gaming Mousepad from Hamburg Germany [...]

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Sitting back to play some retro 8/16 bit video games?  To really get into the mood, look no further than LA-based industrial designer Igor Chak’s site. Shown above is his Space Invader couch and Donkey Kong wall.  And they’re not just concepts; Igor is currently taking orders for his handmade Retro Alien Couch for $5000.

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Well, it won’t have the air jets, of course.  The iPieces iPad Air Hockey game from ThinkGeek supplies you with two custom capacitive strikers.  You download the instruction sheet and the free iPiece Air Hockey app from the iTunes App Store.  All that’s left to turn your iPad into a travel-sized air hockey game is to [...]

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  This week Nintendo announced the 3DS will no longer be an only child. This summer Nintendo will be releasing the 3DS XL (on the right), a larger version of its sibling. Along with being bigger overall, screen real estate goes up by 90%. The XL’s top screen is 4.9 inches and the bottom screen [...]

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The Logitech G600 MMO Gaming Mouse gives you complete control in your favorite MMO games.  It has 20 user-definable buttons, and you can download optional Logitech Gaming Software to access more intricate macro and scripting capabilities than the onboard macros can provide.  Define the G600 G-Shift function to a button on the G600 doubles the [...]

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There’s no doubt that gaming on the iPad and Android tablets is extremely popular. But if you’re like me, you really miss the feel and control that an analog joystick provides. I’ve tried a couple stick-on joysticks like the Fling and Joystick-it (see links below), but they always leave me wanting more. The Roam MobileOS Game [...]

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Gaming on smartphones and tablets is increasingly popular, but the proliferation of stick-on joysticks would indicate that people miss the tactile feed back of a physical controller.  The iControlPad goes beyond a simple stick-on joystick and adds a full controller to your smartphone.  The controller has “dual analogue nubs, digital D-Pad, 6 face buttons and [...]

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Instead of hiding your Nintendo gaming controller in your coffee table with your remotes, the Nintendo Controller Coffee Table from TheBohemianWorkbench Etsy shop is the controller.  This table is made of maple, mahogany and walnut with dovetail joinery and mid century modern legs, and it functions as a Nintendo NES controller.  A floating glass top [...]

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ROCCAT says their Savu gaming mouse is “a competition device that ‘fusion welds’ an ideal blend of performance and customizable features into a robust, perfectly-balanced, medium-sized design.”  The Savu optical mouse has a Pro Optic sensor that delivers up to 4000 dpi, and the “latest R3 sensor also delivers lag-free gaming without any interpolation and [...]

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