Gaming posts

Remember the iCade, ThinkGeek’s April Fool’s joke? Techi’s own James Mowery brought it to our attention yesterday. James expressed sadness upon revealing it didn’t exist. But James may not have to be sad forever! The buzz around the iCade is beginning to grow. Quite frankly, the iCade is a very necessary call to attention to a very untapped market. Currently, there does exist a gaming peripheral for the iPhone – well, sort of. A group of hackers in the UK developed the iControlPad in 2008 to work with jailbroken iPhones. But that’s a little less than legit. However it proves, if anything,…

This one’s for all the gamers. Well, some of the gamers, anyway – I’m kind of big on Space Invaders, so this doesn’t really apply to me. But I digress. Now’s your chance to help save the world! …For real! In anticipation of Capcom’s upcoming epic Lost Planet 2, Capcom Unity is sponsoring ‘Kill Big for Charity’, a promise that if, by May 5th, at least one million demos of Lost Planet 2 are downloaded for Xbox360/Playstation 3, Capcom will put up $25000 to be donated to charity. But there’s a catch. On May 6th, Capcom is also hosting a launch tournament for the game, and the winning team…

Gamers are an elite segment of the PC market. They know their FPS from their RSI, and they’re happy to pay a premium for a product that will give them a tiny fraction of an advantage over their Gatorade guzzling, fifteen year old competitor on the other side of the world. Following this theme, Mad Catz would like to introduce you to the F.L.Y. 9 joystick. Source: SlashGear…

The only online April Fool’s joker that can compete with crowned prankster kings Google and Blizzard Entertainment has got to be IGN. While this isn’t the most believable prank you’ll see today, it’s the only one you’ll be singing to yourself for the next week. Possibly best-remembered for their 2008 Legend of Zelda movie trailer, which had the entire online gaming community convulsing in celebration before realizing it was all a beautiful lie, IGN brings you a sneak peek at Halo: The Bollywood Movie. I wish a big company like Microsoft would have a laugh and actually fund something…

Let me tell you about my rig. Seriously. Grab your milk and cookies, find a spot on the carpet, and let me tell you all about my rig. My rig’s a Mac Pro, Xeon Quadcore x2 with dual crossfired Radeon 4870s and 12 sweet gigs of RAM. My rig dual-boots to Windows 7. My rig runs Photoshop like a piece of goddam paper. My …mousepad is made of… I dunno, like, felt or something. My rig is a sissy girl. If Greensforged knows one thing, it’s that steel is awesome. Hell, it’s the first thing they declare on their website. And they offer the only thing that can truly make my rig truly manly – solid steel mousepads. Unnecessary?…

The iPad has been declared as the greatest gaming machine ever — thanks to the iCade. It’s an impressive set of hardware and software for the iPad that will enable you to play your favorite old-school arcade games. When you purchase the iCade — courtesy of the folks over at ThinkGeek — you’ll receive a hardware iPad arcade cabinet that allows you to slide your iPad in to turn your iPad into an arcade-like screen, and the iPad slides into a 30-pin connector that allows the hardware to control the iPad with the classic  joystick and big red buttons. Following that, you’ll then launch the iCade…

Why is it that completely deconstructing a piece of technology is so amazingly cool? We have no idea, but we love to watch! If you love that, then you have to love the group over at iFixit. They have the time, money, and patience to do the grunt work. Their target: the Nintendo DSi XL. They took it apart, piece by piece, and they analyzed all the components, and the results are fascinating. Stuff like this is especially cool if you enjoy learning about the elements that go into making a device like the Nintendo DSi XL, or the Sony PS3. Just don’t ask us to do this to our own expensive gadgets. We tend…

The Sony PS3 is highly regarded in the gaming world. Heck, it is even looked upon favorably by the U.S. Military as a number-crunching beast. But it is also innovative in that it allows other operating systems like Linux to be installed. Unfortunately, Sony has decided to kill off that feature for the sake of security. You’d think that Sony would realize that if a user was willing to go as far as to install a Linux operating system on their PS3 that they would be well aware that things could go wrong — system security could be compromised. After all, any script kiddy could hack into any one of Sony’s laptops…

Image by 1up.com Every now and then the question of whether video games should qualify as art or not comes to the fore. A few years ago Roger Ebert famously concluded in his book “Answer Man” that games cannot be art because there is choice involved. Why anybody would want to know what an old man with bad taste in film thinks about video games is beyond me, but there you have it. Since then many have pointed out inconsistencies in his characterization of things, chiefly, that he used plays of all things as one of his main examples, and plays are all about choice: who is going to play the characters, what is…

Yesterday was a day for robots; today is a day for things that don’t need to exist. A team of students a the University of Tromsø, Norway, have gone to the trouble of creating the means to play Quake, with their hands, on a wall. This is by no means not awesome, but one has to wonder why. One really, really has to wonder why. Alright, so really it’s just a proof of concept – there are plenty of reasons for displays this large to exise, and the video below proves that gigapixel photo navigation on a wall like this all but promises to make ‘travel’ a thing of the past.

 Even now, the word is fading from…