Reports claim the next generation of Xbox will use a processor designed by AMD. It will make it more likely that existing PC titles will come to the Xbox, but could also make backwards compatibility difficult. Anonymous sources quoted by Bloomberg claim the new Xbox (widely expected to be dubbed the 720) will use an […]
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A year after the rumor first surfaced, a major games magazine is insisting the next generation XBox won’t allow for used game sales. Edge magazine reports “sources with first-hand experience” as saying that although the new Xbox will support physical media, Microsoft wants downloadable games to be the priority. As a result, the new Xbox will […]
Nintendo has conceded the Wii U is likely to fall well below its original sales predictions. The disappointment is tempered only by some good fortune with currency exchange rates. The details come in financial figures covering April through December, the first nine months of Nintendo’s financial year. It says it sold 3.06 million Wii U […]
Kingston has just announced a new USB 3.0 1TB flash drive to add to its DataTraveler HyperX Predator line of products. There’s no word on pricing as of yet, but the 512GB version is currently for sale for about $880. Now try to imagine how much the 1TB version will go for. [Via LS]
This absolutely amazing reproduction of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 was made by Etsy seller shankalonian out an old hard drive, a laptop keyboard, and various parts from a dead motherboard. The perfect gift for hardware geeks who also happen to be big Star Trek fans! [shankalonian]
So you remember how people thought it was cool that you could buy a toy helicopter that could be controlled by your iPhone? That’s got nothing on the Puzzlebox Orbit. Puzzlebox has actually been producing brain-controlled helicopters for classrooms over the past two years. Now, however, they want to take it to a commercial level. […]
It would seem that the University of Warwick researchers are getting tired of simply creating models and toys with their 3D printers. While they think it’s “great seeing the complex and intricate models of devices such as mobile phones or television remote controls” they are working towards being able to print electronics that actually function, […]
Yep, today is the day where the holiday season shopping craze starts, geeks. Don’t feel like rushing to the stores to get crushed beneath a human stampede? Here’s a few amazing deals we stumbled on while browsing around online today. We’ll update this post a few times during the day and add new deals when […]
Nintendo has warned owners of the newly-released Wii U console not to switch it off midway through an epic firmware update as doing so could brick the device. It turns out that anyone who wanted the Wii to have features taken from the PS3 has got their desire — it’s just that unfortunately that feature […]