Gaming

XP Gaming on a Mac (Verdict: ZOMG It Works!)

Amidst all of this bootcamp mumbo-jumbo it was only a matter of time before the Intel-powered Mac got a true test of strength: gaming. The guys at 1up installed Windows XP on a MacBook Pro and then installed Half-Life 2, Oblivion and F.E.A.R. for a test to see how much oomph these machines really have.…

Tech News Travis Hudson Apr 7

Nintendo Revolution Chips Won’t “Go” Very Fast

Nintendo’s upcoming Revolution gaming platform, which is rumored to be officially named “Go,” may not go as fast as had been originally hoped, at least if you believe the numbers that were dug up by ign.com. The website obtained updated documentation, showing the IBM “Broadway” CPU that powers the box will run at 729MHz. That’s…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 30

Toshiba Satellite P105-S921 Gaming Laptop

Another day, yet another life-changing gaming laptop released. This time, Toshiba may have stolen nVidia’s thunder by announcing the availability of the Satellite P102-S921 gaming laptop, the first such system to feature nVidia’s GeForce GO 7900 GS mobile GPU. Among other specs, the 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo T2400 makes an appearance, as does 1GB of…

Tech News Gizloco Mar 29

1080p: Dream the Impossible Dream

In the grand scheme of things, the average gamer—and I don’t mean folks who are reading this right now—can’t tell the difference between 720p and 1080p. Thank God, because according to Microsoft’s Scott Henson, director of game technology, pure 1080p content is very, very hard to produce and any hardware manufacturer who is claiming to…

Tech News Johnb Mar 23

Dells $10K XPS 600 Gaming Rig

Dell has begun to take orders for its XPS 600 Renegade, a gaming desktop that costs just under $10,000. The system trumpets several advanced technologies nary before seen in a consumer desktop. Graphics buffs will be pleased to know that a four nVidia 7900s power the system, delivering 2GB of on-board memory. Also of note…

Tech News Gizloco Mar 23

Revolution Getting Name Change, June Release?

Some of us here at Gizmodo are ten times more excited about the upcoming Nintendo Revolution than we ever were about the Macbook Pro, so the rumors currently swirling around GDC about how the Revolution might just get a name change and might just be out in June are threatening to make our heads explode.…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Mar 22

Modding the NES Into a PS2

Many will argue that the good ol days of gaming died along with the NES. Upstarts like Sony and Microsoft may tout all the graphic wonderment under the sun, but there s something about the NES that still draws gamers to this day. Looking to bridge the gap between these two worlds, a French modder…

Tech News Gizloco Mar 14

VoodooPC ENVY U909 SLI: Laptop to the Max

Here’s a company that’s putting all the heavy juju it can think of into a laptop, and the result is the VoodooPC ENVY U909 SLI Laptop, going over the top with two NVIDIA GeForce 7800GTX graphics cards in an SLI configuration and an AMD Turion 64 processor. The thing is huge, though, with a 19-inch…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 14

The Razer Barracuda Gaming Audio System

Lest you forget, gaming is in right now. More often than not, however, audio in games tends to get overlooked. In steps Razer, a company dedicated to making your games sound as good as possible. The launch of their Barracuda Integrated Audio System, a set combining specially designed gaming headphones and audio card for the…

Tech News Gizloco Mar 13

Samsungss SPH-B5200 Gaming Phone

While details are scarce (read: non-existent) on this Samsung cell phone at the moment, we do know that it comes with an MP3 player, a two-inch QVGA display and a DMB receiver for TV reception. All this, plus the phone looks like a portable gaming system of some sort. N-Gage, anyone? Samsung SPH-B5200 Gaming Phone…

Gadgets Gizloco Mar 13

Quake, Coming Soon to 24 Screens Near You

Just how great is Linux? When you take into account that one intrepid guy played Quake 3 across 24 Linux-powered monitors, you too will soon be worshiping the penguin. The whole setup is driven by 12 Linux servers (that s two monitors per server) and runs the game at 10240×3072 resolution, pumping out 15-30 FPS.…

Tech News Gizloco Mar 13

Eurocom Launches M590K SLI Notebook with 19-Inch 16:9 Screen

Eurocom introduced the M590K Emporor, a laptop that it calls the world’s first SLI (Scan Line Interleave) notebook. Gamers will like the combination of two NVIDIA SLI-certified Geforce Go 7800 GTX 256MB graphics cards strapped together for 2x graphics performance. Those two GPUs are pumping out video to a 19-inch 1680×1050 widescreen display. With its…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 9

Ideazon Ships MERC Keyboard for Gamers

Ideazon is now shipping MERC, its second gaming keyboard and one which includes a cluster of 34 programmable keys specifically for gamers. On its right side, there’s a conventional QWERTY keyboard, but on the left is the fun stuff: among others, it has three thumb keys and 11 keys that can be assigned to a…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 7

Matrox TripleHead2Go

The TripleHead2Go is a small, palm sized device that can expand your one, scrawny display into a big, beautiful three-display setup. It is as simple as plugging three displays into the TripleHead2Go box and then plugging the box into your desktop or laptop. The TripleHead2Go then tricks Windows into thinking that there is actually a…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 3

DS Lite Launches In Japan

The Nintendo DS Lite finally went on sale in Japan today and surprise, surprise, hundreds of people spent the night in lines waiting to buy one. Every single retailer sold out, as expected-in many cases before they’d even opened. Only the Crystal White (a.k.a. the one that looks like an Apple product) was made available…

Tech News Gizmodo.com Mar 2

Cyber Snipa USB Keypad

Those companies sure do know how to appeal to us gamer types. We thrive on purposeful misspellings! The Cyber Snipa is a USB keypad that was designed with the first-person-shooter in mind. It is essentially replicating the left side of your already existent keyboard to accommodate to gamers. Anybody out there actually use keypads for…

Tech News Travis Hudson Feb 25

Pac-Man, Ms. Pac Man and Galaga Cocktail Table

Here s a tripleheader cocktail table that lets you play Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man and Galaga in their original form. Extreme Toys for Boys is offering this cocktail table unit, which looks just like the original but contains only the latest technology, at a sale price of $3600. Not sure why they call it…

Tech News Charlie White Feb 11

Gamulater Workstation

This Gremlin Gameulator peripheral has it all. A gaming and PC workstation, it looks like a steering wheel from an old arcade game, but houses just about everything you’ve got in your home office or computer/gaming space. Comes with a front storage unit, CD storage shelf, monitor shelf, front and back side panels, flooring, retractable…

Tech News Tgrumet Feb 10

The Web on the XBox 360

Yes, you can cruise around the web using your Xbox 360, and even transfer your favorite sites from your PC, but it takes a little bit of doing to make it happen. It works with a hack that you download and install on your PC. But it’s not really a full-fledged Web browser, because what…

Tech News Charlie White Feb 10

DS Lite: The Colors

Yesterday we gave you some more news on what services will soon be available for the Nintendo DS Lite as well as its March 2 launch date in Japan. But now we’ve gotten hold of an image showing the three different colors it will come in—Crystal White, Ice Blue and Enamel Navy. https://gizmodo.com/ds-news-galore-153868 Still no…

Tech News Tgrumet Feb 10

XP Gaming on a Mac (Verdict: ZOMG It Works!)

Nintendo Revolution Chips Won’t “Go” Very Fast

Toshiba Satellite P105-S921 Gaming Laptop

1080p: Dream the Impossible Dream

Dells $10K XPS 600 Gaming Rig

Revolution Getting Name Change, June Release?

Modding the NES Into a PS2

VoodooPC ENVY U909 SLI: Laptop to the Max

The Razer Barracuda Gaming Audio System

Samsungss SPH-B5200 Gaming Phone

Quake, Coming Soon to 24 Screens Near You

Eurocom Launches M590K SLI Notebook with 19-Inch 16:9 Screen

Ideazon Ships MERC Keyboard for Gamers

Matrox TripleHead2Go

DS Lite Launches In Japan

Cyber Snipa USB Keypad

Pac-Man, Ms. Pac Man and Galaga Cocktail Table

Gamulater Workstation

The Web on the XBox 360

DS Lite: The Colors

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