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Hardware EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag DSi LL got a big ol' butt, spotted in the wild 27 With the DSi LL set to be released in Japan this Saturday, display units have started popping up here and there to help Nintendo promote it. Anoop over at Andriasang got to peep some at the Bic C... Peripherally Speaking: NERF N-Strike Switch Shot EX-3 18 I love NERF guns. In my household, NERF guns are kept within easy reach at all times because you never know when an all-out war is about to occur. This probably happens more frequently than it sh... AMD releases the Radeon HD 5800 series 37 If you follow PC hardware news, you may have been hearing about ATI's 5800 series for some time. Well, they're finally here, as yesterday AMD announced that the graphics cards are finally availab... TGS 09: Europe getting new PlayStation 3 bundles 5 While the standard PlayStation 3 Slim's 120 GB hard drive seems like a reasonable enough amount of space, at least from the perspective of someone who is sort of used to deleting stuff on his Xbo... Mad Catz gets exclusive rights to make Sonic-branded crap 19 Sega has continued its commitment to treating Sonic like a two-bit prostitute by striking a deal with third-party peripheral maker Mad Catz. The deal gives Mad Catz exclusive rights to produce a ... Want that 250GB 360 HD? Sorry, not sold separately 32 That Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 bundle that got announced late last night looked pretty sweet, to be sure, but even if you aren't into Call of Duty, you may have pricked up your ears at the m... Halo 3: ODST getting an Xbox 360 bundle 19 It's tempting to label this with a Captain Obvious tag since it's a major Microsoft first party game, and major Microsoft first party games get Xbox 360 bundles. If you love Halo and for some wei... Samurai Warriors 3 getting its own Classic Controller 26 Samurai Warriors 3 is going to be exclusive to the Wii. It's not often that Koei sticks to one system for its Warriors titles, but with the amount of support Nintendo is giving the game, who can ... The $100 comment returns! Dual-screen laptops, yay or nay? 30 Who wants a $100 American Express gift certificate, courtesy of our sponsor? (Dtoid_Hammershark and Phantomile won the last two.) It may as well be you. Asus is curious about what gamers want fu... Hands-on with the PlayStation 3 Slim 87 It's a good thing we didn't travel all the way to Germany just to watch somebody hold a PlayStation 3 Slim up on stage from a hundred feet away. We would've been out of town when one showed up ri... Carmack: Game hardware reaching 'physical limits' 28 It seems certain that this generation will be one of the longest we've ever seen. Platform holders are happy with their products, and game developers don't want their budgets even more bloated. i... Win a $100 American Express gift card for your opinion 16 Off topic before I begin: Dtoid community member Half Left sent the British comedian duo Peacock & Gamble a Destructoid sticker.  The gift was mentioned in episode 8 as something they're... Peripherally speaking: Novint Falcon 37 To be perfectly honest, I never fully understood the appeal of massive, costly videogame controllers. How can someone justify spending so much on a gadget that only works with a few games? I woul... Logitech premium PS3 Guitar Hero drum kit looks familiar 14 Logitech has announced today its PlayStation 3 “Premium Drum Controller” for Guitar Hero, a $229.99 monster kit that will be available this July in the U.S., and August this Europe. T... Peripherally Speaking: Aviator 13 It’s been a long time since I’ve used a good flight stick. Even more time has passed since I’ve put a good one between my mighty thighs. When Mad Catz sent Destructoid Saitek&rs... Peripherally Speaking: DSi TekCase (contains extra battery) 19 Anyone that listens to RetroforceGo! regularly knows that I have been absent for many an episode due to being on a plane in transit to one place or another (in fact, the joke was that whenever I ... Peripherally Speaking: NZXT Cryo LX notebook cooler 17 I have a laptop. It is, in fact, my only computer since leaving the United Kingdom for the United States. I use it for all my work, as well as any gaming that I happen to do. It doesn't have the ... Silver DualShock3 now available, Red and Blue coming this fall 26 As expected, the “Satin Silver” DualShock 3s that retailer GameStop/EB Games had been listing for awhile are now available. These bad boys will run you $54.99, and will be exclusive t... Wii MotionPlus instructional video assumes you're a moron 28 Unquestionably, setting up Nintendo’s Wii MotionPlus peripheral is the easiest part of owning a Wii. It’s a very small dongle with a very obvious output that fits quite nicely onto th... Peripherally Speaking: Nyko's Wii Wand controller 19 You hear people saying that the Wii is at its best as a social console; the success and popularity of Wii Sports speaks volumes to support this. So while the Wii console itself only ships with a ... Could there be a Tekken 6 bundle with arcade stick? 9 If you'll think back to when Tekken 5 was released, there was a Ultimate Collectors Edition that came with the game, a case, and an arcade stick. And by looking at an early page at GameStop, it s... Wii hacker Johnny Lee is working on Project Natal 20 Here's a little tidbit of news that may give the doubtful more faith in how well Microsoft's Project Natal will work once out from the conference and into the living room; Johnny Chung Lee, the m... Want a $200 Guitar controller? Logitech has you covered 35 If you love your Guitar Hero and want only the best for those late night strumming sessions, perhaps you may want to consider swapping out your squeaky plastic guitar for this decadent $200 basta... Would you buy a netbook to game? Vote to win $50 gift card 38 I have a fascination with netbooks (tiny computers you can hide in your vagina). They're cute and are flying off the shelves, but they're only good for word processing and surfing the web ... lik... DS gets a vibrator and it looks absolutely ridiculous 19 If you feel that your portable gaming lacks rumble, you might want to hold out until something better than this comes along. What you're looking at is the "SmartStylus" -- it's a stylus... Pachter: There won't be another generation of consoles 42 Typically I won't run Michael Pachter "stories," but once in a blue moon he'll say something I can't resist talking about. Today's nugget of fried gold concerns his prediction that this... Ubisoft preparing for new consoles in 2012 18 2012 seems to be the year that everyone's focusing on as far as the next generation of consoles is concerned, and Ubisoft seems to be no different. The French publisher is hiring new staff in pre... I'm on a mission to make gaming laptops cheap and upgradable, Asus might listen 33 I'm on a mission.Background: A few weeks ago I invited Dtoiders to join me on WePC, a research project hosted by Asus and Intel.  They've invited a legion of prominent tech bloggers to begin... Sony manages lower PlayStation 3 manufacturing costs, still losing money 21 Sony’s PlayStation 3 costs a lot of money. Purchasing one of the sleek black monsters requires consideration. It isn’t like that that time you grabbed an incense burner from the conve... Zeebo announced in Brazil, all games are download only 42 Brazilian company TecToy announced a new console yesterday named Zeebo, which is aimed at the middle class, according to TecToy's director and president, Fernando Fischer. Priced at $599 in Brazi... Asus launches web site to build a crowd-sourced gamer PC, invites us to weigh in 37 Can't find a gaming laptop you actually want?  Want to chip ideas to design a better one in 2009?  Intel and Asus launched a Web site called "We PC" to set to do just that: bu... Sony officially reveals PS3 wireless Bluetooth headset 17 You may already know about this, but today Sony has officially revealed its wireless Bluetooth headset, now with 30% more blue teeth. The peripheral will have an RRP of ¥5,000 (US$46) and it'... Another PSP model is in the works, but don't get your hopes up 16 According to the FCC, Sony is planning on rolling out another PlayStation Portable model. If you were hoping for a sexy new redesign on par with the shift from the original PSP to the Slim, I'm s... Sick hybrid: Xbox 360 controller inside a DualShock 3 36 Are you sick of playing XBLA games with the 360 controller's rubbish D-Pad? Well, thanks to the modding community, help is on the way. The above photo is a particularly sweet mod in which someone... 60GB Xbox 360 has no street date, as Major Nelson points out 10 When Major Nelson said that the 60GB Xbox 360 was going to mysteriously show up on store shelves without Microsoft making a big spectacle out of it, he obviously meant it.Previously, we only knew... Microsoft 'confident' in hardware quality ... glad somebody is 72 There's a fine line between confidence and ignorance, and it seems that Microsoft is willing to skate along that line with all the grace of a testicle. While gamers are faced with the constant wo... RetroforceGO! Episode 41: Part one of the Hardware Series: Controllers 71 Is it me, or is it St. Patty's day? I'd heard that the church had moved the holiday to another day because of Lent, is this true? If so, as an Irish man this means that we get two days of celebra... Destructoid Contest: Win a one-of-a-kind $4,999 Turning Point pc! 117 Destructoid 2 year anniversary madness continues! As we countdown 730 days of blogging in the good name of the robot we're running a couple of contests you won't want to miss: You have the chance... The mystery of Wii Play 'n Learn revealed, even more boring than it sounds 14 After a mysterious UPC popped up online, we began speculating over what this mysterious "Wii Play n' Learn" could be. While we were all sitting here scratching our chins and stroking ou... The rumors are true: HDMI-equipped Premium 360 found on sale (Updated) 44 Yesterday, Dale reported on a rumor originating at Ars Technica which suggested that Microsoft might be fitting new Xbox 360s out with HDMI capability as standard rather than reserving the luxury... Microsoft: Every game will work with every system, but some require a hard drive 50 Amidst growing concerns among Xbox 360 Core unit owners regarding the "Hard Drive Required" stickers, Microsoft is setting the record straight ... or confusing us even further. In a sta... UK gaming market rises 42% from last year's sales 9 Now that all three new consoles are out this year, UK isn't letting the Manhunt 2 ordeal sour their sales, with the gaming market generating far more money than it was the year before. The f... Make faces at yourself with the DS Camera 18 Coming out alongside a new title called Otona No Ds Kao Training (Face Training) is a new camera that plugs into that Game Boy Advance slot on the bottom of your Nintendo DS that you rarely use a... Warhawk $59.99 at retail, includes Bluetooth headset 26 Sony has confirmed with 1UP that the PlayStation Network title, Warhawk, will be headed to retail shelves on a Blu-ray disc come August 28, 2007. They also have confirmed earlier reports that a r... QWERTY QWERTY: Hands on details of Microsoft's Chatpad 32 The guys over at Gaming Nexus were able to get their mitts on Microsoft's upcoming gadget, the rubbishly named Chatpad. While not the final version, the peripheral tested was pretty close to... Wii graphics war continues: Level Up tries to stop the madness 95 The handbags came out again this week for another round of attempts to write off the Wii. And once again, substandard horsepower was cited as a large part of the reason why the selling-like-crazy... Don't mention the CD32: New Amiga line announced 11 Ars Technicha have got a report that the Amiga, legendary and much obsessed-over gaming computer of the '80's and '90's, is soon set to make a comeback with a new line of hardwar... Attention gore-hounds: Xbox 360 Elite vivisected for your pleasure 19 Those crafty fellas at The Llama's Adventures got themselves ahold of a brand new Xbox 360 Elite, a whole ten days before its official street date. Clearly smug and excited at getting su... The SNES > XBLA? Maybe, just maybe 43 If I say the word “Nintendo” to you, what’s the first thing you think of? If you’re a fan of their way of doing things, the chances are you’ll gush forth with reams ... HDMI in Xbox 360, now with -0.1 eliteness 22 With a name like Elite you'd think they'd be packing all the latest innovations in HDMI technologies out of the box, but it seems to be ever-so-slightly gimped from the get-go. Snaileb sp... Xbox 360 Elite comes packed with lots of content goodness 34 Anyone planning on picking up the sexy black Xbox 360 Elite or the stand alone 120 GB hard drive will have tons of content to look forward to. Microsoft will be including the full version of Hexi... Peter Moore: New Xbox 360 in five years 39 While it seems a little early to be talking about the console wars again, hearing new tidbits to the successor of the Xbox 360 does raise an eyebrow when considering the business impact on compet... Who would use robots for evil? 18 Well, David Harr (gamertag Diego Knyte) would -- that is, if you consider automatic gamerscore point-building via advanced robotics evil*. David's robot, dubbed xBot, completes a simple tas... Server maintenace complete 36 Update: The little marine said "job's done" Is anyone still awake? No? Ok, good! We're going to take down the site for a few minutes into the wee hours to add some new hardware ... Nyko: forget Sixaxis, buy Zero FTW 12 In addition to PS3 intercoolers, dongles, guitars, HDMI cables and other shiny accessories we also spent some time with Nyko's new Sixaxis alternative, the Zero series controller. The design is ... CES 2007: Three new ways to revive Sixaxis 6 As you may already know, charging the Sixasis with the stock 4 foot USB bundled with the console is a joyless experience; a corner cut surely to keep the price down on the PS3. Players that want... Nyko Wii peripherals debut at CES (Update) 15 Nyko's got some pretty neat stuff coming up at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas for the Wii. The three accessories we've heard news of so far are the wireless sensor bar, a remote r... Video: Xbox 360 with HDMI 63 Thanks to Xbox-Scene, we now know that Microsoft will stop at nothing to win the console war. Whether you didn't believe that an updated Xbox 360 console was coming out or you just happened ... 360 v2 confirmed; Codenamed: Zephyr 68 I would consider this a rumor were it not for the picture above. Talks of a cooler, more efficient 360 have been around for a long time now, and it seems we're finally seeing what is as good ... The wicked Atari 2600 handheld 8 Benjamin Heckendorn, the modder that brought us the one-handed Xbox 360 controller, has created a new handheld Atari 2600 system. What looks like a cousin of the Nintendo DS, this Atari creation ... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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