Gaming

Explained: Why Super Mario Bros. Looks Like Ass On Your HDTV

If you’ve ever noticed that your vintage games look horrible on your top-of-the-line 1080p LCD TV, you aren’t hallucinating. An NFG forums member has assembled a fantastic, in-depth explanation for this ugly phenomenon. I’ll spare you too many technical details, but the main issue at hand is resizing. CRT screens are capable of scaling hard-edged,…

Tech News John Herrman Apr 21

$400 Xbox 360 Game of the Year Bundle Confirmed

The rumors were right. Microsoft is releasing a “Game Of The Year Bundle” including the Xbox 360 Elite, Halo 3 and Fable 2 for $400—the same price of the standalone Elite console. It’s not an AMAZING deal, but if you’re looking to “jump in” to the Xbox 360, these are games you’ll want to play…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 20

Palm Pre Marketer Crashes, Burns During Classic Palm OS 3D Gaming Demo

Cool demonstration of the tech in action, but damn woman, get back on the road! Brief clip, with the fun beginning at 30 seconds and ending pretty much instantaneously. Update. Now, the driving may be terrible, but the video itself answers a question about the emulator regarding sound support. Short answer: It looks like it…

Tech News Jack Loftus Apr 19

Ikea Gaming Chair Relieves Arms at the Price of Your Children

And there Ikea stood in front of 300,000 misshapen ironing boards. “These have a use!” someone proclaimed. That man received a raise, and the rest is history. The Jesper chair is an ingenious seat offering neither back support nor acknowledgment of male anatomy. Presumably, the sitter’s weight is pushed forward, meaning that the illusion of…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 17

This DSi Can Take Itself Apart, Thank You Very Much

New rule: All teardowns must be recorded in seamless stop motion, synchronized with music and give the impression that the gadget is actually dancing itself into pieces. See above for further guidance. TechRestore has used this technique before, and we’ve already glanced the DSi’s innards, but the combination of a gratuitous teardown with 1304 frames…

Tech News John Herrman Apr 16

RRoD Xbox Turned Into the Stupendous Arcade Stick

When one gamer’s Xbox 360 went RRoD, he didn’t just give up. Instead, he gutted the system and transformed his dead Xbox 360 into a functioning arcade stick. Keep fighting the good fight, Seppun. [TechEBlog]

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 15

GBalpha’s Ranger Brings GPS Navigation To The Nintendo DS

GBalpha has developed the first serious touchscreen GPS navigation system for the Nintendo DS. It features a U-Blox 5 chip, 32MB of extended memory and Google Earth integration. The downside, and it is a big one, is that the device will not be DSi compatible. Still, if you have no plans on upgrading this might…

Tech News Sean Fallon Apr 15

PediSedate: The Only Game Boy Accessory Designed to Drug Children

This is a Game Boy hooked up to a nitrous oxide machine. It’s called the PediSedate. Nope, nothing sketchy about this. The PediSedate was designed for dentists, allowing them to distract kids with video games while they were drugged in prep for oral surgery. But hey, why limit it to dentists? You could use this…

Tech News Adam Frucci Apr 15

The True Cost of Console Ownership in 2009

With the price of Wii Motion Plus bringing the cost of a full Wiimote to a whopping $80, we thought we’d reexamine the true cost of buying a console today. Which is truly the cheapest? https://gizmodo.com/wii-motionplus-coming-june-8-for-20-5211305 We’re going to pretend we’re either a family of four or an apartment that wants a system loaded up…

Tech News Adam Frucci Apr 14

SideWinder X3 Gaming Mouse More Count Dooku Than Darth Vader

Microsoft’s SideWinder gaming mice get more homogenized every release: The $40 X3 looks normal, almost boring, more Clone Wars than Darth Vader. It’s got 2000DPI, on-the-fly switching and a single thumb button (WTF). [Microsoft] https://gizmodo.com/razer-mamba-vs-sidewinder-x8-wireless-gaming-mice-rev-5209312

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 14

Microsoft Offers Comfort, Warranty Coverage To Xbox E74 Error Victims

For dazed, RRoD-weary Xbox users, hearing that there’s one more way that your console might die on you was almost too much to bear. Thankfully, Microsoft has announced that these latest victims are covered, even retroactively. https://kotaku.com/microsoft-extends-warranty-for-e74-failures-5211159 From Redmond, via Kotaku: While the majority of Xbox 360 owners continue to have a great experience with…

Tech News John Herrman Apr 14

Japanese Game Uses Head Tracking Webcams To Enable Hands-Free Upskirting

A Japanese erotic game developer just put two and two together to make what could be the first instance of head tracking combined with upskirts in human history. The game Tech48 uses a webcam to detect where, in relative space, your head is. Move left and right and the polygonal maiden tracks her head left…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 13

Nintendo Spills Its Guts in the Wii Exploded Tee

I absolutely cannot get enough of the exploded phenomenon. And this WiiXploded t-shirt is absolutely no exception…even though it seems to be missing Nintendo’s patented money printing components. $17 [WiiXploded] https://gizmodo.com/exploded-iphone-shirt-most-heinous-way-to-say-i-3-app-5122621

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 13

Voltron Mania for Tabletop Gamers

Rumors have swirled about a possible live action Voltron movie for next year, but there’s one piece of Voltron news that’s solid. The cat-fisted giant robot is joining tabletop game Monsterpocalypse next year. https://gizmodo.com/cat-hands-robot-voltron-saves-the-day-5035871 io9 pal Ed Grabianowski has the news over at Robot Viking: The Voltron license is pretty brilliant. Instead of just one…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 13

Razer Mamba vs. SideWinder X8: Wireless Gaming Mice Review

Gamers have avoided wireless mice like girls with cooties, fearing the grim fate of death and teabagging induced by milliseconds of lag. Razer’s Mamba and Microsoft SideWinder X8 promise total wireless freedom, sans teabagging. https://gizmodo.com/razer-mamba-gaming-mouse-is-lag-free-can-kill-you-with-5126324 Razer Mamba Mamba is clearly Razer’s most carefully designed product yet. Even the packaging was clearly agonized over: The mouse…

Reviews Matt Buchanan Apr 13

Rumor: $400 Xbox Elite Bundle to Include Halo 3 and Fable 2

Ars Technica’s Microsoft mole has revealed an upcoming Xbox 360 Elite bundle including Halo 3 and Fable 2 said to cost a mere $400 (the same price as the base Elite.) If the rumor is true, it seems very likely that Microsoft is phasing out the somewhat obsolete Elite (since the $299 Xbox is basically…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 10

XCM Cross Fire Adapter Mates PS3 Controllers With Your Xbox 360, For Some Reason

This seems to violate every fanboy code ever written across the hallowed halls of the gaming internet, but if you must use your wireless PS3 controllers to play Xbox 360 games, this is for you. It also connects wired 360 controllers, as well as your non-360 Xbox controllers, if you must have the heft and…

Tech News John Mahoney Apr 10

Myst For iPhone Preview Video: Hope You Like Tapping

Remember how the “groundbreaking” game Myst for PC was clickfest 1993? It’s now going to be tapfest 2009 for your iPhone. From the video, it’s pretty much the same game. You go around a pre-rendered world solving puzzles in order to something something something—I never actually finished it. It does look like a pretty decent…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 8

The Nintendo DSi, Dissected

Compared to the latest smartphones, the DSi‘s hardware is pretty soft. The console does win the award for the weirdest component, though, with that wishbone thing in the mid-right corner—the double camera module. [iFixit] https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-dsi-review-5197200

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 8

Logitech G19 Keyboard Review

Logitech’s G19 gaming keyboard—which borders on ludicrous with its embedded Linux mini-computer and full-blown LCD monitor—is the best one they’ve made yet, even if it doesn’t quite reach its full mind-blowing potential. https://gizmodo.com/logitech-g19-hands-on-i-watched-youtube-on-a-gaming-ke-5126011 Holy Crap, There’s a Monitor in My Keyboard The 320×240 LCD display that hovers over the keyboard is really the G19’s raison…

Reviews Matt Buchanan Apr 7

Explained: Why Super Mario Bros. Looks Like Ass On Your HDTV

$400 Xbox 360 Game of the Year Bundle Confirmed

Palm Pre Marketer Crashes, Burns During Classic Palm OS 3D Gaming Demo

Ikea Gaming Chair Relieves Arms at the Price of Your Children

This DSi Can Take Itself Apart, Thank You Very Much

RRoD Xbox Turned Into the Stupendous Arcade Stick

GBalpha’s Ranger Brings GPS Navigation To The Nintendo DS

PediSedate: The Only Game Boy Accessory Designed to Drug Children

The True Cost of Console Ownership in 2009

SideWinder X3 Gaming Mouse More Count Dooku Than Darth Vader

Microsoft Offers Comfort, Warranty Coverage To Xbox E74 Error Victims

Japanese Game Uses Head Tracking Webcams To Enable Hands-Free Upskirting

Nintendo Spills Its Guts in the Wii Exploded Tee

Voltron Mania for Tabletop Gamers

Razer Mamba vs. SideWinder X8: Wireless Gaming Mice Review

Rumor: $400 Xbox Elite Bundle to Include Halo 3 and Fable 2

XCM Cross Fire Adapter Mates PS3 Controllers With Your Xbox 360, For Some Reason

Myst For iPhone Preview Video: Hope You Like Tapping

The Nintendo DSi, Dissected

Logitech G19 Keyboard Review

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