Gaming

3D Gaming on PCs Is Looking Bigger and Brighter (Literally)

I would be lying if I said I was going to rush out to buy a new PC and 3D monitor so I can stab zombies in the brain in 3D, but I can honestly tell you Nvidia’s 3D Vision 2 is much better than the original. Nvidia’s second jab at 3D gaming on the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 14

Xbox Live Users Are Being Hacked for Virtual FIFA Gear (Updated)

Xbox Live users are under attack on two levels: hackers are targeting them at an alarming rate and using their MS points on FIFA ’11 and ’12 in-game gear; and Microsoft is then shutting down their accounts to investigate for up to 25 days. A strange, and seeming profitless pattern has cropped up among Xbox…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Oct 14

PlayStation 3 Official Wireless Headphones Lightning Review: KILL KILL KILL

As great as great graphics are, splendiferously blasting sound can be just as gratifying. Sometimes we take sound for granted, or just don’t care about it—but with Sony’s great new 7.1 wireless surround headphones, you will care. Like Sony’s official surround cans sound really, really good. Yeah, the 7.1 surround sound is “virtual,” in that…

Reviews Sam Biddle Oct 12

An Important Message From Sony’s Chief Information Security Officer: “OH GOD, NO, IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN”

Poor old Sony was hammered by both media and its own users earlier this year, after news broke of a large-scale hacking of its PlayStation Network. And now it’s happened again. The latest case involves Sony detecting a mass attempt to sign in to PSN accounts with a job-lot of user names and passwords, which…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 12

Handheld Video Games from the ’70s Made No Sense

I inherited one of these 70s handheld games from a box of junk when I was five. It was a Harlem Globetrotters-branded basketball game. It was downright incomprehensible. This Pulsonic baseball game looks no different. As a kid, I was immediately drawn to that damned Globetrotters game because it had buttons and made noise and…

Gadgets Adrian Covert Oct 11

4 iPhones + 1 Apple TV = Awesome Split-Screen Multiplayer Gaming

Firemint, the developer behind Real Racing 2 on the iPhone/iPad, has a demo video to show off a neat multi-player trick using the Apple TV and the AirPlay mirroring feature for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2: 4-player split-screen. It’s called Party Play. Essentially, one player hosts a local multiplayer game, and pushes their screen…

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 7

What would it take for video-game movies to become as cool as comic-book movies?

In the past decade or so, comic-book movies have achieved a credibility that still eludes video-game movies. But that may be about to change, according to a new article over at Forbes. https://gizmodo.com/the-decade-that-superhero-movies-beat-video-game-movies-5430764 David Maisel, who was the head of Marvel Studios and helped Marvel to begin producing its own movies starting with Iron Man,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Sep 28

Xbox Might Get Comcast and Verizon Cable Soon

Microsoft appears to be close to closing the deal on bringing Comcast and Verizon to the Xbox, with the console serving as a set-top box, according to Digiday. https://kotaku.com/rumor-xbox-as-comcast-verizon-cable-box-imminent-5841841 If the reports are accurate, the deals could be done within the next 30 days. The deals would allow customers to subscribe to TV packages through…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Sep 20

Gamers Crack Code That Could Lead to New AIDS Treatments

Scientists spent a decade trying—and failing—to map the structure of an enzyme that could help solve a crucial part of the AIDS puzzle. It took online gamers all of three weeks. The enzyme in question is the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus retroviral protease, and researchers have been seeking ways of deactivating it as a way of…

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 19

Corsair’s Vengeance K60 FPS Keyboard Is a Headshot-Making Monster

Let’s rush past the part where we acknowledge that grabbing a keyboard with easily-replaceable WASD and 1-6 keys and an ergonomic wrist rest is probably overkill and get right to the part where Corsair’s K60 keyboard looks to be a pretty wonderful brand of nerdy. The K60 has anti-ghosting tech, which means that even when…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Sep 16

Warhammer 40K: Space Marine Pits Thousands of Orks Against One Chainsword

In the Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine video game, you’re the best of the best, a genetically modified supersoldier wearing incredible armor and wielding incredible weapons. This is a third-person shooter/hack and slash action game, but beyond that it’s a great military sci-fi story. If you’re already a fan of the Warhammer 40K universe, there’s really…

io9 Ed Grabianowski Sep 16

The Tools You Need to Survive a LAN party

Online gaming may be the preferred form of multiplayer showdowns these days, but the LAN party still exists. They’re grueling, caffeine-fueled affairs that can span multiple days, and intimidate the uninitiated. So here’s everything you need to fit in. X-Keys Programmable Keyboard Get a leg up on your foes with a programmable keyboard that lets…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 15

GameStop Will Let You Trade In Your Gently Used iPhone for Store Credits

Well, it’s clearer than ever that GameStop thinks mobile gaming is its future. At a trade show in Vegas last week, they officially dragged iDevices into their kinda bad trade-in business while also carrying new ones. The good news? They might sell iPhone 5s, too. https://gizmodo.com/gamestops-plan-to-stream-games-to-tablets-like-onlive-5788745 Selling the full array of iOS devices is probably…

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 6

Logitech G400 Lightning Review: I’m Going to Murder Your Face So Hard With This Thing

I probably can’t review this mouse without being bias, as the internet’s most eloquent inhabitants would put it. It’s the mouse I judge all other mice against, remastered for 2011. Like if George Lucas released the original trilogy, unaltered, but in retina-jarring 1080p. https://gizmodo.com/the-greatestest-mouse-ever-reincarnated-5812641 Like I’ve slaughtered nations of prancing polygon people with the original…

Reviews Matt Buchanan Sep 5

Futurama Monopoly lets you own Robot Hell

If we can’t have Game of Thrones Monopoly in real life, then this is the next best thing — a Futurama Monopoly set is available for preorders during the month of September, with the game shipping in November. Watch out for the Hypnotoad! https://gizmodo.com/game-of-thrones-meets-monopoly-check-out-our-new-board-5801303 Here are some more images of this excellent-looking game: And here’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 1

RankMyHack Gives You Achievement Points for Your Ballsiest Cyber Attacks

2011 has seen some of the most brazen, daring cyber attacks to date, from the Arizona police to BART quite recently. It’s a bad time to be even a medium-sized name on the net. So let’s turn this into a game, shall we? RankMyHack.com is an old-fashioned leaderboard for the “hacking elite.” After signing up,…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 31

Help decode ancient Egyptian texts by playing a puzzle game

Want to help transcribe ancient Greek texts from the comfort of your couch? Have no understanding of the Greek language? That’s ok! With Egypt Exploration Society and Oxford University’s Ancient Lives project, you can contribute to the work of researchers who are digitizing — and eventually decoding — the vast holdings of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri,…

io9 Keith Veronese Aug 30

Holy Christ. Is the Razer Blade the Most Badass Laptop In Existence?

I can’t think of the last time I was blown away by a laptop. But this. The Razer Blade. It’s 0.88 inches thin. Aluminum chassis. Inside? A 2.8GHz Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 555M video card. And it’s got Razer’s touchscreen Switchblade built in. Oh, it’s $2800. https://gizmodo.com/razer-switchblade-pocket-gaming-pc-flip-open-customiz-5727129 Razer is best…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Aug 26

Secret Sauce Linking Xbox 360 Kinectimals and Windows Phone Is a QR Code

At a Seattle event, Microsoft demonstrated a way for Xbox 360 games like Kinectimals to share information with a Windows Phone handset. The connection uses a QR code that can be scanned by the handset and the Kinect. Supposedly easy enough that a child could use it, the sync requires you to scan a QR…

Tech News Kelly Aug 22

Logitech’s New G300 Is $40 of Ambidextrous Awesome

I have wildly divergent needs from my mouse depending on whether I’m playing TF2, WoW or StarCraft. The upcoming G300 gaming mouse from Logitech aims to seamlessly handle all three from both sides of the keyboard. The G300 supports three separate configuration profiles—three games or three people, however you prefer—which are conveniently color-coded to avoid…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 18

3D Gaming on PCs Is Looking Bigger and Brighter (Literally)

Xbox Live Users Are Being Hacked for Virtual FIFA Gear (Updated)

PlayStation 3 Official Wireless Headphones Lightning Review: KILL KILL KILL

An Important Message From Sony’s Chief Information Security Officer: “OH GOD, NO, IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN”

Handheld Video Games from the ’70s Made No Sense

4 iPhones + 1 Apple TV = Awesome Split-Screen Multiplayer Gaming

What would it take for video-game movies to become as cool as comic-book movies?

Xbox Might Get Comcast and Verizon Cable Soon

Gamers Crack Code That Could Lead to New AIDS Treatments

Corsair’s Vengeance K60 FPS Keyboard Is a Headshot-Making Monster

Warhammer 40K: Space Marine Pits Thousands of Orks Against One Chainsword

The Tools You Need to Survive a LAN party

GameStop Will Let You Trade In Your Gently Used iPhone for Store Credits

Logitech G400 Lightning Review: I’m Going to Murder Your Face So Hard With This Thing

Futurama Monopoly lets you own Robot Hell

RankMyHack Gives You Achievement Points for Your Ballsiest Cyber Attacks

Help decode ancient Egyptian texts by playing a puzzle game

Holy Christ. Is the Razer Blade the Most Badass Laptop In Existence?

Secret Sauce Linking Xbox 360 Kinectimals and Windows Phone Is a QR Code

Logitech’s New G300 Is $40 of Ambidextrous Awesome

OpenAI Releases Its Vague Vision for Reorganizing Society Around Superintelligence

Lego Is Getting Mark Hamill on the Phone to Sell You Its Smart Bricks

Scientists Are Recycling Centuries-Old Bullets for a Badly Needed Toxic Compound

Amazon Drops Kasa Smart Light LED Bulbs (4-Pack) to Around $6 Each as Stock Clears Out

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Samsung’s Tablet Deals Just Got Bigger, Galaxy Tab S10 Lite Hits Its Lowest Price With S-Pen on Amazon

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