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Breathe Life Into Your Old PSP Games with RealView V-Screen Depth Enhancer

By Janet Cloninger / May 27, 2010 / News / Gaming Gear, PSP / Leave a Comment

The RealView V-Screen Depth Enhancer accessory for PSP 1000, 2000, and 3000 uses patented “depth enhancing screen technology” to give an almost 3-D appearance to the screen. RealView says the V-Screen works especially well with racing and platform games. The V-Screen also incorporates a protective case for your PSP. It’s available in the US through […]

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Plantronics .Audio 476 DSP USB Headset Review

By Andy Chen / May 4, 2010 / Reviews / Computer Gear, Gaming Gear, Headset / 3 Comments

When it comes to headsets, I’m really picky. In 2004 when I started playing on-line co-op games with my younger brothers in-law, I shopped around for various stereo headsets with microphones for gaming. They were all either too uncomfortable, or had poor outgoing audio. Eventually, I took drastic measures and made my own, and I’ve

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Old school iPad gaming with the iCade

By Andy Jacobs / April 5, 2010 / News / Gaming Gear, iOS, iPad accessory / 10 Comments

Ever have a yearning for those 80’s-style arcade games, but still want to stay on the cutting edge? Enter the iCade iPad Arcade Game Cabinet. Invented by those clever gadgetophiles at ThinkGeek, the iCade is a handcrafted, wooden, desktop-sized gaming console that allows you to slide in your iPad, launch the free iCade app (available

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LED Sporting Goods

By cobinrox / March 25, 2010 / News / Gaming Gear, Outdoors, Spotlight Gadgets / 1 Comment

What could be more fun than smacking a birdie into your friend’s eyeball or dropping a horseshoe on your foot? Doing it in the dark! Finally it looks like manufacturers have begun to put some good use to LED lights. These two implementations, from Impact, look pretty cool and there are other such types of

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Nintendo announces the 3DS

By James Branch / March 23, 2010 / News / Gaming Gear, Nintendo / 7 Comments

Seemingly out of nowhere, Nintendo have announced the release of their latest handheld gaming system, the 3DS. It will be a 3D ‘glasses-free’ version of the DS/DSi, allowing full 3D play without the need to wear any 3D head gear. The ‘hot off the press’ information direct from Japan has informed us all that the 3DS will

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Tekken coming to the iPhone

By James Branch / March 10, 2010 / News / Gaming Gear, iOS, iPhone / Leave a Comment

The classic arcade fighting game Tekken is coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch! Website Pocketgamer has claimed an anonymous source has tipped them to the upcoming classic’s arrival. With the latest news that Capcom is to release Street Fighter IV on the devices, Namco has followed suit with the fighting rival. The source hasn’t yet

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AMD’s latest HD gaming card

By James Branch / March 5, 2010 / News / Gaming Gear, Spotlight Gadgets / Leave a Comment

AMD have announced another addition to the list of the ‘5000’ series of premium, gaming graphics cards. Called the ATI Radeon HD 5830, it will sit snugly between the HD 5770 and the HD 5850, more or less filling the gap between the two! The specifications for the 5830 are: Engine clock speed: 500 MHz Processing power

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Nintendo DSi XL coming soon!

By James Branch / February 23, 2010 / News / Gaming Gear, Nintendo, Spotlight Gadgets / 5 Comments

Since the release of the first DS back in 2005, Nintendo have sold more than 100 million handheld games consoles worldwide. And now they’re back with a bigger and better version, the Nintendo DSi XL. With a choice of three colours, Dark Brown, Wine Red and Natural White, the XL will still incorporate all the

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Mindless Goods BAIT iPhone Game Review

By Julie Strietelmeier / February 12, 2010 / Reviews / Gaming Gear, iOS, iPhone / Leave a Comment

BAIT from Mindless Goods is a game for the iPhone or iPod touch that doesn’t really fit into any specific gaming category. It’s not exactly a puzzle game and not really an arcade either. Actually, it’s not even that much of a game as far as I’m concerned. The idea is that you use your

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Ultimate Hangman App for iPhone

By Janet Cloninger / February 8, 2010 / News / Apps, Gaming Gear, iOS / Leave a Comment

Ultimate Hangman from Ensena Soft is a fun version of the old word-guessing game that you can play on your iPod touch or iPhone. When you miss letters, animations show a little stick man growing more agitated as he gets more complete – and closer to hanging. If you don’t want to watch the little

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Organize your Wii and accessories

By Julie Strietelmeier / February 6, 2010 / News / Gaming Gear, Spotlight Gadgets / 4 Comments

The Wii Pedestal Base from NewPCGadgets.com is an acrylic organizer that helps to keep your Nintendo Wii console, controllers and games in one tidy space. You can buy one to clean up your gaming area for $24.95.

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The Glory Days of Gaming – On Your iPhone/iTouch

By Griffin Peyton / February 2, 2010 / News / Apps, Gaming Gear, iOS, iPhone / Leave a Comment

You know what’s missing from your iPhone? According to the team at Sega, that would be a hedgehog, dolphin, and dragon-riding dwarf. And their remedy happens to be a new iPhone application (aptly titled the “Ultimate Genesis Collection”) that turns your iPhone/iPod touch into a virtual Sega console. Fans of old Sega titles such as

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Question for those Early-Adopters of the iPad….

By Dave Rees / January 31, 2010 / News / Audio, Video, TV, eBook Readers, Gaming Gear, iPad / 43 Comments

The big question for those early-adopters of the iPad: Which version are you going to buy? Whether you are going the thrifty 16gb route or getting the 3G 64gb Cadillac, I’m just curious which one you are going to buy and why? Also, are you going to skip work to stand in line or wait

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Nostalgic joystick brings back gaming memories of your youth

By Julie Strietelmeier / January 29, 2010 / News / Gaming Gear, Joystick, Spotlight Gadgets, USB / Leave a Comment

Just looking at this joystick brings back memories of playing Pacman, Donkeykong and Pitfall Harry. The Clear Classic USB Joystick from Retro Thing is modeled after the iconic joystick that us 40 somethings remember from the 70’s and 80’s. It plugs into a USB port to play retro games on a modern PC or Mac.

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Arroic iPhone Game Review

By Julie Strietelmeier / January 18, 2010 / Reviews / Gaming Gear, iOS, iPhone / Leave a Comment

I’m always on the lookout for a fun game for my iPhone that can give me a few minutes of entertainment. I prefer puzzle style games because they typically aren’t frantic. Who needs more stress in their life right? 😉 Arroic from Outlaw Games is sort of a cross between a pool game, coin collecting

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CTA Wii Sports Resort Pack 8-in-1 Review

By cobinrox / January 16, 2010 / Reviews / Gaming Gear, Nintendo / 2 Comments

For someone who hates video games as much as computers, I’ll admit that the Wii Sports Resort game is kind of fun. To add an even more realistic and fun experience to the Wii Sports Resort game, check out this set of attachments in the CTA Wii Sports 8-in-1 Pack. They glom onto the Wii

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Four iPhone Puzzle Games for a Winter Afternoon

By Julie Strietelmeier / January 10, 2010 / Reviews / Gaming Gear, iOS, iPhone / 3 Comments

For me, winter weekends mean staying indoors and either reading a book, watching some TV, playing my ukulele, surfing for gadget news or playing iPhone games. Today I’ve been trying out four different puzzle games that have helped me waste a large chunk of my Sunday afternoon – but in a good way 😉

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The Peregrine glove lets your fingers do the fragging

By Julie Strietelmeier / December 16, 2009 / News / Gaming Gear, Spotlight Gadgets / Leave a Comment

The Peregrine glove is a hand-worn controller that captures gestures, allowing users to play Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux games by simply touching their fingers together. It has 18 Touch Points and 3 Activator Pads that allow for over 30 user-programmable actions. The glove is currently only available in three sizes for the left

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Think out of the box with a T.O.O.B

By Julie Strietelmeier / December 15, 2009 / News / Gaming Gear, Spotlight Gadgets / 5 Comments

TOOBs are 3 x 6 foot half dome movie screens that claim to provide an immersive movie and game playing experience. You can buy just the screen for $1590 or go with the $2560 package that includes a Mitsubishi HC1600 1280p DLP Home Theater Projector, and Logitech G51 Surround Sound 5.1 speaker system. Hmmmm, I

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