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Technology EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Those Xbox 360 wireless N adapters are out this week 36 Yes, yes -- wireless functionality on the Xbox 360 does came at a fairly substantial price. What else is new? With that out of the way, let's talk about the newfangled wireless N adapters that be... Aliens vs. Predator PC supporting DirectX11 25 I know I'm not one to talk about PC stuff, but I am one to talk about Aliens vs. Predator. The PC version of Rebellions cross-species slaughterfest will be given a graphical boost thanks to Direc... Fact: old mens' heads look better, older in CryENGINE 3 35 Just the other day, Crysis developer Crytek announced that CryENGINE 3 was locked, loaded, and ready to be licensed by other developers who may find themselves fancying the tech. In the post, we... There might be AMD chips in your next Xbox 49 The word is that AMD has struck a deal with Microsoft to put their chips in the next Xbox product. In a way, your current Xbox, the Xbox 360, has AMD chips in it, as the company merged with graph... God of War PSP dev creates new console game engine 12 Ready at Dawn, makers of the f'n fantastic God of War: Chains of Olympus on the PSP and Okami for the Wii are releasing their own console game engine. The name: Ready at Dawn Engine. This cross-p... Sony patent details handheld touch device 15 Is Sony working on a new gaming handheld? Probably. Is the device going to feature "touchscreen and digital tactile pixels" like this SCEA patent from back in January talks about? Who k... High Voltage really does love that Infernal Engine 11 High Voltage, the studio best known for The Conduit and its two upcoming games Gladiator A.D. and The Grinder, has just gotten itself into a lifetime licensing agreement with Terminal Reality's I... Preparing for the future, US Army developing Pip-Boy 3000 40 Players of Fallout 3 will no doubt draw some similarities between the conceptual design image above and the Pip-Boy 3000 so integral to the game. Working with HP Labs, the US Army has been develo... Kill zombies with Skittles in this augmented reality game 17 Okay, so we’re like a month late to the party, but this is way too cool not to share. Nvidia’s Tegra is a high end augmented reality device that lets users play videogames with everyd... Dave Perry shows off streaming game service Gaikai 12 Now I know the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "streaming game service" is OnLive, but try to forget about that for just a moment. David Perry (of Earthworm Jim fame) has a... Kudo brings Natal to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 42 Apparently, Jimmy Fallon is serious about this whole videogame thing. He is, as far as I know, the first late night host to feature multiple games-industry personalities. On last night’s La... Ghostbusters' Infernal Engine to power even more games 6 Terminal Reality used their Infernal Engine to power the upcoming Ghostbusters game, but now it seems that that same engine will go on to power even more games.We go from hunting ghosts to...hunt... 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... Pikachu can see your insides: Pokemon X-ray machine 12 Mobile X-ray machines are scary to Japanese children, I guess. But Pokemon aren't. So that's why Japanese company Shimadzu has created a Pokemon-themed X-ray machine, using art from the game Poke... Safeco Field's Nintendo Fan Network gets a 1-UP 14 Gamers who own a DS (or now, a DSi) tend to take the handheld units with them everywhere; our own Colette Bennett says that her DS is “more or less glued to [her] person.” Since &ldqu... Everything is turning into the Wii 25 Wii fever is (fortunately or unfortunately, depending on who you are) still gripping America with its motion-controlled simplicity. So much so, in fact, that TVs and PCs set to debut next year ar... Size matters, proclaims Nvidia's ION platform 14 Be on the lookout for Netbooks and Nettops (mini-desktops) based on Nvidia's powerful yet bite-sized ION platform, as the first group of PCs to utilize the technology are coming in Q2 of this yea... GDC 09: Project Offset is very much alive and kicking 12 Remember when we first heard about Project Offset, that gorgeous first-person shooter set in the realm of fantasy, and then proceeded to hear next to nothing about it since then? Well, it's not d... GDC 09: Havok's latest tech demonstrations impress 22 Are there any graphics/physics whores present in the audience? Don't be ashamed; I am right there with you, to be completely honest. Anyway, this post is almost certainly going to be entertaining... Stuck in a wall? New, more efficient collision algorithms should help 15 Games look great these days, but something that could use a bit of sprucing up is collision detection. Even today we still see a missed hit, or the rare arm through the wall. Despite all the othe... Perry: Say goodbye to single-player games 40 Dave Perry, founder of Shiny Entertainment (Earthworm Jim, Messiah), has been speaking at DICE 09 in Las Vegas, where he talked about used games, growing technology and the short future of the si... 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... BOOM! Headshot! Gamer gear that packs a five pound punch 18 If taking a beating online isn't enough to fulfill your violent needs, then TN Games has a variety of gamer gear to punish you in person. The 3rd Space Gaming Vest bundle kits come in black, camo... TGS 08: Square Enix to unveil a game controlled by your brain ... seriously 36 In Robocop, the tragedy inflicted upon Alex Murphy was reversed with crazy technology developed by a corporation with their fingers on the pulse of innovation. NeuroSky (probably smaller than OCP... FIFA 08, Need for Speed Pro Street, and the Sims coming to the Genesis ... kinda 6 Unfortunately for our Latin American brethren, the sub-Amazonian games industry has always been a bit mystical and nefarious. Prices are exorbitant, piracy is rampant, and, for better or worse, t... Pioneer makes a huge Blu-Ray 46 Hideo Kojima is probably in tears right now. The newest Blu-Ray offering from Pioneer is a monstrous 400 GB disk. It is composed of 16 beautifully blue layers. Previously this feat was unavailabl... Sony files patent on something that looks like a PSP iPhone 20 Sony Ericsson's newly patented Orientation based multiple mode mechanically vibrated touchscreen display looks like the long-time rumored PSP phone. But it has a touch screen. Yeah, I don't quite... PlayStation 3 Gravity Grid: 16 PS3s simulate black hole collisions 36 The PlayStation 3's Cell processor must really be something. The US government wants to use them, they're powering cutting-edge medical research, and now they're being used to simulate black hol... The US Air Force picks up 300 PS3s 31 Off they go, into the wild blue yonder... apparently for "research." Riiiiiiiight, research.  The gamer in me want to think that they're setting up for the First Annual Armed Forc... Ageia acquired by Nvidia: Could it signal the next big PC gaming wave? 34 Ageia's technology is brilliant. They manufacture an add-on video adapter that relieves video cards from crunching complex physics math and frees them up to do what they do best: render pretty th... The Neural Impulse Activator lets you control the game...with your face 23 The Wiimote motion thing is SO 2007. You people need to get up to speed with the latest technology. OCZ has a new product called the Neural Impulse Activator that could take gaming a step further... Prototype to be first Neural THX 7.1 game for more surroundiness 44 With a name like Prototype, it's somewhat fitting that this interesting game will be a title of firsts. The free-roaming science fiction adventure will be the first ever videogame to use THX's br... Is American tech a threat to Japan? Silent Hill composer thinks so 42 Silent Hill series composer Akira Yamaoka has admitted that he feels Japanese game development is in trouble when compared to the advances of American technology. Akira made the statement when ta... Sega has harnessed psychic powers: Partnering to make mind-controlled toys 31 While only loosely related to videogames in the vaguest sense, it's too amazing to fully ignore. Sega Toys, a branch of Sega Sammy, is partnering with Neurosky to create thought-controlled toys. ... Social networking site for games journalists launched 21 The Videogames Journos Network was created by Colin Campbell, Editor-in-chief of Next-gen, though it has no association with the Next-gen or its publisher. The idea is to give games writers a pla... New 40GB PS3 sports a smaller Cell processor, lower power usage 11 It's not like we've ever had a real problem with PlayStation 3 systems overheating or making much noise, but owners of the new 40GB model will be pleased to learn about a couple of related extra ... This guy's joystick is bigger than all of ours 9 FreshCreation has a video of a massive Dutch joystick. When we say that this joystick is as big as a car, we're not kidding -- it's actually a car. Park to Play is a car modified to become ... New device adds HDMI functionality to 1st generation Xbox 360s 23 Maxconsole has a couple of videos on a new adapter that lets you use the HDMI inputs on that fancy new HDTV you've just purchased with your vintage, first generation HDMI-less Xbox 360. The XCM ... New 360 motherboard hits 08/08: the future is then! 31 Dean Takahashi of the San Jose Mercury News posted a blurb to the Mercury's technology blog early this morning and the news, while technical, seems mostly positive for fans of Microsoft's little ... Bungie: Internet Matlocks correct, Halo 3 not running in HD, but so what? 62 It's a universal law of human snarkiness that the bigger the game launch, the more attention will be paid to any hitches, large or small. It's also a universal law of videogames that the more you... Capcom releasing games for N-Gage platform in 2008, hula hoops next big fad 24 As a result of a videogame retail job I once had, I somehow ended up with four or five N-Gage units, in addition to a number of memorable titles, like Ashen and The Sims: Bustin' Out. And it wasn... Mod Wii, watch Talladega Nights 32 Wii owners who have been dying to watch Talladega Nights on Nintendo's console can finally rejoice! The l33t software coders with Team Symbiote have released a full DVD movie software solution fo... Games time forgot: Wing Commander III 30 Okay, okay; I promise, this is the last FMV-heavy forgotten game I will spotlight ever again. Well, not for a long time. Well, not for a few months. Anyway, Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tige... Thermal design expert pokes around inside an Xbox 360, finds badness 19 As a Brit, I'm genetically predisposed to being unable to deal with warm weather. The merest hint of sunlight breaking from behind a cloud forces our entire nation to excitedly run around shoppin... PS3 likes TV: DVR facilities planned 23 Continuing its movement to make the PlayStation 3 your catch-all media megalith, Sony has announced that the black box of Blu-ray will hopefully boast a digital TV tuner in early 2008. Next year,... The UK has too many broken 360s for one country to handle 54 The Xbox 360 seems to be suffering from inverse karma of late. On the one hand, it's a damn fine machine with a vast library of worthwhile games and a great online service. On the other hand,... Fonix signs speech recognition technology deal with Nintendo 8 Think waving your arms around while playing Wii games makes you look silly? Would you much prefer it if you could wave your arms around and yell a lot, thereby achieving the all-round persona of ... Pianos are for sissies; SMB theme on a Tesla coil 24 Sure, I bet your ability to pound out Final Fantasy's Prelude on 88 keys is an avid display of skill and sensitivity for the ladies, but in their heart of hearts, women don't want someone... No theoretical limit to PS3 firmware updates, but fans are a different story 32 Whenever you corral a couple of engineers together in a discussion, magic usually follows. Between all of the technical jargon that they weave in and out of conversations all nonchalantly, often ... Wii capacitor technology earns Nintendo another lawsuit 17 Given how busy (and frequently successful) they've been over the years, it's hard not to imagine Nintendo's legal department as a razor-sharp, iron-sinewed, crack military team of lit... Sony wants to rumble, but so far it's a fumble 21 It's not exactly an insider's secret that the PlayStation 3's lack of rumble has something to do with past licensing issues between Sony and Immersion Corp. After a settlement was rea... id Software's new engine premiered at Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 12 As you may remember, just over a week ago, id Software announced John Carmack's latest plan to make you feel inadequate about your PC via the new engine he's working on. At the time, id ... Location-based DS game brings real world pirating high jinks 17 The line between gaming and reality became slightly more blurred today, as new developer area/code announced their location-based DS game, Plundr. Already available for laptops, the pirate-theme... Time for another new graphics card: Carmack strikes again 25 Listen carefully. Go on. Listen. Really concentrate. Hear it? The curious sound you can detect floating across the breeze is that of the world's PC hardware vendors wringing their hands with ... 1080p is crap: The new sex is Super Hi-Vision, however stupid the name 49 High definition gaming is a highly subjective term.  You can find these words boldly written accross your 90's era Sega Genesis and all over the packaging of the PlayStation 3 boxes pile... Embarrass yourself on a first date with NewsBreaker Live 17 About a month ago I posted about a game on msnbc.com called NewsBreaker. In it, the player participates in a Breakout-like game to reveal actual news stories that are updated throughout the day. ... Quadriplegic gaming and beyond: advances in accessible gaming at GDC 16 For the average gamer, picking up a next-gen console joystick and plugging away is an effortless activity. To a person with physical disabilities, this feat is simply not within the realm of poss... Don't get excited, but a Fallout 3 demo is out now, with a teaser to follow 13 A demo getting released before a teaser? "Surely you are mistaken," you must think. Well, we aren't. Sort of. It appears that No Mutants Allowed, the premiere Fallout fansite on th... New Nvidia card smokes ATI's fastest, costs way more than a PSTriple 24 ATI general managers must be hosting group hugging sessions right now, as the world's fastest new SLI video card from Nvidia was revealed today -- smoking their offerings by a sizable gap. Ne... The top five gameplay innovations to look forward to this year 77 We are alive during a very important time in gaming. 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