Gaming posts

One of the deciding factors that made me go Blackberry instead of picking up an iPhone 4 was the tactile keyboard. I’m sorry, but there’s just no replacement for real buttons. I don’t care how swiftly you tapdance around that onscreen keyboard – the fact remains that it’s a f***ing screen. But maybe if I’d held out just a little longer, I could have gotten the tall glass of water in the iPhone desert that is this wicked rad flip out keyboard from ThinkGeek. The TK-421 (catchy name, guys) needs no explanation, so I won’t insult you by giving you one. Just bask in its rad, maybe put on a little music. It’s Bluetooth…

I’m gonna come right out and admit I’ve never owned an Xbox 360 – but most of my friends have one, so I’ve still experienced second-hand the Red Ring of Death more than a handful times. Technically, one cannot hold experiences in their hand, though, so that’s not quite right, but whatever. Look on in amazement as these Marines show you one way of coping with your loss – the same way I’m sure most Xbox gamers would be used to: firing a gun. Y’know guys, I heard that a damp towel or something can fix the RRoD in ways bullets never can. In fact, come to think of it, I’ve never heard of bullets fixing the RRoD in any…

I once posted to Techi a video of the CyberMotion Simulator. It was pretty rad – you know, if you’re into that. I, personally, am all kinds of into it, but the CyberMotion Simulator has one grievous fault that hinders my ability to have, like, eight of them in my living room: its unnecessarily monstrous size. ‘But wait!’ you cry. ‘Unnecessary? It needs to be that large! The g’s! THE G’S!’ Honestly, I’d have thought that too, until I saw this little number what I’m ’bout to show you, here. Some truly dedicated gamers have seen fit to rig together their own home version of the CM Simulator, complete with…

Alright, alright, I admit it. The iPhone is a gaming machine. I’ve spent the last few years actively tearing down people’s insistence that Apple holds any sway in the gaming arena, but there’s really no denying it anymore – they do, if only for silly casual games as of yet. But it’s only a matter of time before real, actual factual games properly find their way onto the platform. But how the hell are we going to play them? Apple would have you believe that you need only tilt control and a touch screen to play games, but any gamer knows that’s an outright joke. What we need is a controller, or Steve? We ain’t…

When I dare put ‘rad’ in the headline itself, you know something must be goddamn rad as all hell. And this is, so you knew correctly. Fist bump. I refuse to give you any additional context for these pictures, because they say everything you need to know. It’s a(n official) Lego Wiimote. Or, rather: it’s a regular Wiimote, with Lego pegs built into the top and underside. Is that not the raddest goddamn thing in the universe? It’s not? Well, (s)he-so-tragically-born-without-an-imagination, consider the following: This + Mindstorms. Yeah, that’s sounding a little more badass now, isn’t it? Ya damn…

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Rejoice! The 3DS finally has a release date, and as you’re probably only here due to having read the above headline, I won’t insult your intelligence nor waste your time by repeating it. So I guess that holiday release everyone was predicting is out the window. But you can wait for a host of N64-era titles in 3D, right? Of course you can. You’re pretty fly. But what else has the 3DS got in store? Much, apparently. Not the least of the most important features is the ability to move all your old DSiWare from your DSi or XL to the 3DS – something I for one am especially excited about, if only because if Nintendo…

Cloudy days have befallen the PC as a gaming platform. Yet it wasn’t so long ago when things were different; A-list games were released for the PC on what seemed to be a monthly basis — consoles were second class. But now the world has their Xbox 360s, PS3s, PSPs, Wiis, and DSs. Subsequently, the PC had lost its touch with the gaming community and was in dire need of help. Could it be saved? Bland, mediocre, unimaginative, stagnant — these are all words that could have been used to describe the PC gaming industry as it stood in the past few years. Ironically, the same technology that helped create…

Donkey Kong Country Returns comes out in two months, and as a hardcore fan of the franchise (Country in particular, not DK in general) I am tickled completely undiscovered shades of pink. This video by co-DK fanatics Angie Griffin and Chad Nikolaus helps explain my lust. It’s the cheesiest, most horribly-produced video you’ll see all day. It is also, by a large margin, the best video you’ll see all day. Assuming you dig Donkey Kong. Everyone digs Donkey Kong. I give this song two green and red balloons out of a possible blue….

If there is a more ambitious case modder than Brian DeVitis, I haven’t heard of him. Not content with having his game consoles anywhere but in one place, Brian has taken the liberty of dismantling and reconfiguring eleven game consoles, a projector, and sound system into one box. And, naturally, that box is a life-sized R2D2. Of course it is. Making its debut at PAX ’10, the droid is a fully-functioning one-stop-shop for classic gaming and includes *deep breath* an NES, Super NES, N64, Gamecube, Genesis, Dreamcast, Atari 5200 and 7800, PSX, PSP, Xbox… and Windows XP, just for good measure. Power…