During Steve Ballmer’s pre-show keynote address, he demonstrated the features of Avatar Kinect. The most important of which was the fact that Kinect sensors will now be able to track facial expressions. The video was actually quite impressive and shows the life-like features of the avatars. Avatar Kinect will also feature “conference rooms” where users can choose between 15 different settings to hold conversations with their friends. Pretty cool overall and best of all, it will be free for Xbox Gold members!
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Jan 06 2011
CES Begins!
Today is the start of the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 (CES). For anyone interested in technology, the next 4 days will certainly be exciting ones. CES is a technology based trade show that started in 1967 and is held annually in Las Vegas. It has been the event where many major breakthroughs were announced and is one of the best events to get a peek at what is to come this year. Technologies like the VCR, NES, Blu-ray, and OLED were all first shown at CES. Continue reading
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Jan 06 2011
Kinect causes XBox 360 to RRoD
It seems that the new motion control add on for the XBox 360 causes some of the older models to RRoD. There doesn’t seem to be a specific thing with Kinect that seems to trigger the older models to RRoD, and it may even be caused by the extended hours used when playing Kinect or the extra horsepower that it uses that pushes it over the edge and causing massive overheating.
(via Gaming Bolt)
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Jan 06 2011
PSP Go and PS3 hacked to play game ISOs
This has not been a good few days at Sony. The PS3 and PSP Go have been both cracked and now able to play pirated games. So much for the PS3 for not being hackable. Continue reading
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Jan 06 2011
New Intel CPU Prices
Went to my local parts store today to see if they had the new Sandy Bridge processors for sale. They had the boxes up but no product just yet. Kind of disappointing but it was to be expected. For the most part, they were taking pre-orders. There were a lot of people eyeing the new cpu (boxes) and quite a few that actually ordered. Continue reading
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Jan 05 2011
Nintendo DS Claims Best Selling Console in the U.S.
Nintendo has claimed the top spot of the best selling console in the United States, edging out the previous record holder the ten year old PS2.
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Jan 05 2011
Playstation Phone is…
Saw what they would be releasing as the Sony Ericsson Playstation phone. Its not the nicest looking phone or portable gaming device. But check it out if, and thats a big “IF”, whether you would purchase it. A video of the device after the jump Continue reading
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Jan 04 2011
Dragon Quest X Info Coming Soon
The Wii exclusive Dragon Quest X will have some info that will be unveiled on Jan 21, 2011 when the popular Japanese “V-Jump” will have their next issue in about two weeks hitting store shelves. Since its announcement in 2009, info on this game has been nearly non-existent and I’m hoping this game will be good since I’ve been hearing good things about DQIX on the DS, which came out last year.
(via VG Tribune)
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Jan 04 2011
DRM No More Mr. Ubisoft
More and more games are released these days with DRM technologies to try and control the way games are played. They are viewed as a way to prevent users from playing illegally downloaded copies and also aid in disabling any hacks or exploits (to a lesser extent). About a year ago, Ubisoft caught on with this and started releasing games that were only playable online. In other words, even offline modes required a connection to the internet. Even worse was the fact that the game would malfunction if you lost connection during offline play (e.g. campaigns). The assumption made by Ubisoft was that all gamers had a connection to the internet anyways. Continue reading
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