Gaming Consoles

October 2nd 2008

Nintendo Offers Solution to Wii Storage Problem, Uses Wii Points to Lure Users Onto the Net

More from the Nintendo Press Conference: the company will let you download games onto SD cards on the Wii, starting Spring 2009. Yes, you’ll have to wait another four or five months before you get to unclog the Wii’s paltry HD, but at least it’s something right? Nintendo president Satoru Iwata also talked about an…

Tech News Elaine Chow Oct 2

November 28th 2007

Rambus Targets 1TB/sec Bandwith For Computer Memory

Memory maker Rambus has unveiled its Terabyte Bandwidth Initiative with the goal to develop a new memory architecture capable of achieving 1TB/sec bandwidth. The plan is to push the data rate to a whopping 32X—which can provide a 16Gbps signaling rate with a 500MHz clock. Compare that with to the 2bits/1Gbps provided by conventional DDR…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 28

May 22nd 2007

ScrewAttack Blows Up One Gaming Console for Each Dallas Mavs Choker

The guys at ScrewAttack, known for their revengeful destruction of numerous gaming consoles such as the Xbox, are really pissed off this year because the Dallas Mavericks are out of the NBA playoffs in the first round. So they’ve decided to create a "Let’s have Handsome Tom blow shit up to make ourselves feel better…

Tech News Charlie White May 22

September 22nd 2006

Nintendo Wii Cost? Calculate it Here

The $250-ish price of the Nintendo Wii gaming console sounds good, but that number reminds us of the $2 pizza syndrome. Oh, you want cheese on that? Pepperoni, sausage, tomato sauce? That’ll be $29.95. Get the skinny on the Wii’s real cost with the Nintendo Wii Calculator, a Web site configurator that helps you figure…

Tech News Charlie White Sep 22

September 19th 2006

Wii Most Popular Gaming Console of All Time?

When the Nintendo Wii goes on sale in the US on November 19, it’s certain to be popular. But some are even more enthusiastic about its chances for success, including Hirokazu Hamamura, president of Tokyo-based video-game researcher Enterbrain Inc. and Editor-in-Chief of Famitsu, a highly-regarded and influential gaming mag in Japan. He gushed about the…

Tech News Charlie White Sep 19

September 6th 2006

Nintendo Wii Game to Get Steering Wheel Peripheral?

Our pasty-faced and pencil-necked in-laws at Kotaku uncovered a possible strap-on steering wheel peripheral for the upcoming Nintendo Wii that might just add a new dimension to car chasing on the game console. According to Wii watchers at Go Nintendo: “Ubisoft’s Japan-developed GT Pro Series—which may or may not be a Wii launch title, depending…

Gadgets Charlie White Sep 6

April 21st 2006

Upgraded Xbox 360 CPU to Run Cooler

Help is on the way for those overheating Xbox 360s—the triple-core processors inside the Microsoft gaming console are slated for an upgrade early next year. Chartered Semiconductor, one of two manufacturers that make those processors (IBM, the chip’s designer, is the other), said the new Xbox 360 CPU will use 65nm technology instead of the…

Tech News Charlie White Apr 21

December 24th 2005

Xbox 360 Mod Chips On the Way?

Reports indicate that mod chips for Microsoft s Xbox 360 may be available within the next few weeks. Additionally, pirated games for the 360 should be available shortly thereafter. This is certainly news Microsoft doesn t want to hear. After all, the original Xbox was probably one of the easiest consoles to hack, giving rise…

Tech News Gizloco Dec 24

December 8th 2005

Adaptec GameBridge Connects Consoles to PC

This nifty little USB TV tuner from Adaptec Japan is designed specifically to allow you to play console games on your PC. The GameBridge TV (AVC-1410) connects to your PC or laptop and lets you play, record and replay said games as well as watch standard TV. They may call it a game bridge, but…

Tech News Tgrumet Dec 8

Nintendo Offers Solution to Wii Storage Problem, Uses Wii Points to Lure Users Onto the Net

Rambus Targets 1TB/sec Bandwith For Computer Memory

ScrewAttack Blows Up One Gaming Console for Each Dallas Mavs Choker

Nintendo Wii Cost? Calculate it Here

Wii Most Popular Gaming Console of All Time?

Nintendo Wii Game to Get Steering Wheel Peripheral?

Upgraded Xbox 360 CPU to Run Cooler

Xbox 360 Mod Chips On the Way?

Adaptec GameBridge Connects Consoles to PC

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