Ever wondered what the inside of a Sony PS3 controller or an Xbox 360 controller looked like? Well, strangely enough, that's the same thought artist Mads Peitersen had when he decided to draw what he found inside a PS3 and Xbox 360 controller. However, something tells us this wasn't what he was expecting. The Copenhagen based artist who says he likes Rembrandt says (unedited), "No Games or Consoles was harmed during painting." Read More @ pocket-lint.com
Microsoft will release a limited-edition Xbox 360 console themed around Halo: Reach this fall, it said Thursday night at Comic-Con International.
The Halo-inspired Xbox will be released on the same day as the new shooter, Sept. 14. It will have all the bells and whistles of the recently released Xbox 360 redesign, from built-in Wi-Fi to a 250-gigabyte hard drive. A new paint job and custom sounds trick out the machine with Halo flair. Bundled with two similarly customized controllers and a copy of the game, the package will cost $400.
Halo: Reach is the hotly anticipated next installment in Microsoft’s key game series. The first-person shooter serves as a prequel to the events of the original Halo.
Bungie and Microsoft say that they spent a great deal of time adorning the limited-edition box with visual and audio references to the world of Halo.
“We used the ONI as the backdrop for the console,” said Bungie designer Jim McQuillan to Wired.com in an exclusive pre-show interview. McQuillan was referring to the shadowy Office of Naval Intelligence, a key part of the fiction of the popular shooter series.
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ot only does the video game industry produce hundreds of millions of dollars worth of revenue every year but it also produces a sub culture reserved for just about every game genre. We have die hard shooter fanatics, we have the hardcore RPG lovers, strategy geeks, platform maniacs and much more. If you’re a gamer you’ll probably instantly associate yourself with such a group.
RPGs, in particular, have been known to have diehard, extremely dedicated players that put countless hours into grinding out quests, leveling up their character and accumulating loot. Does World of Warcraft ring a bell? However, online RPGs are not the only runners in this battle as offline RPGs too have quite the dedicated following.
The Fable franchise from Lionhead Studios is a perfect example of a prime offline RPG. First launched in 2004, Fable allowed characters to live out their virtual life in a way almost exactly the same as real life. You could get married, invest in real estate, get fat and much, much more.
Well, after Fable went on to becoming a success securing the spot of top-selling game back in September of ’04, Lionhead went on to release a sequel appropriately named Fable II. That too brought with it unique elements of non-linear gameplay new to the offline RPG genre.
Well, Lionhead is looking to change everything once again with the forthcoming Fable III which features kingdom ruling gameplay and a very unique menu system (among other things). When I say unique menu system, I mean there is barely a menu system. Clothes are changed by going into a dressing room, items are purchased off the shelf instead of through a menu and magic requires putting on special gauntlets instead of choosing spells from a HUD. It may seem ridiculous to get excited over a menu system but it’s just one feature that is making Fable III look absolutely stunning.
Considering it’s October 26th launch date on the Xbox 360 is quickly approaching, Microsoft has come forth to show off their special Fable III edition controller for the game, pictured above.
The special edition Fable III Xbox 360 controller will be out on October 5th for $69.99.
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Sony Ericson is making efforts on a phone that is using the platform of Google’s Android. This phone is expected to be released this year. Now gaming and communication would be beautifully blended in the PlayStation phone from Sony. This phone is reported to be out on the market by October.
The CVG in the month of June unveiled that a trademark is being developed for Sony device and it would be named ‘PlayView’. However, now there are more issues about the Sony cross held between a Captivate phone as well as a PSPGo.
Few features of the new phone have been revealed. It would include side-slider gaming controls and the QWERTY keyboard would not be a part of it. The D-pad would also be there but it would lack small joystick.
According to a report published by the Engadget, this new device is expected to have a long touchpad in order to get the analog controls. Apart from that, it would also have the standard PSP buttons and the shoulder buttons
The display would be quite large between 3.7 and 4.1 inches. WVGA would also be a part of it in order to promote better resolution. It is possible that there would be a 5 megapixel camera and a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU. At the initial stages, the phone would be available in black color with a highlight of silver while the gamepad area would be white or silver in color.
Via : latestbusiness-news.com
Imagine if your Android cellphone could play PlayStation-like games. Now further imagine that in place of a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, it had a slight-out game controller, complete with D-pad, buttons and an analog control-strip. What you are imagining may already exist inside Sony Ericsson’s labs, and may be coming to you as soon as October of this year.
Engadget cites a “trusted source” inside Sony Ericsson and has some surprisingly detailed specs for the machine (which is seen in Engadget’s own mockup above). The phone, which will look something like a cross between a Samsung Captivate and a PSP Go, will probably be powered by a 1-GHz Snapdragon processor, sport a wide VGA-resolution screen of around four inches and possibly include a 5-MP camera.
Sounds great, right? There will also, the rumor goes, be a dedicated section of the already fragmented Android market for the games, which will be comparable in graphics quality to PSP games. The whole lot will be running on a specially-skinned version of the upcoming Android 3 (Gingerbread).
This is pretty much a PlayStation phone, and we don’t have to say how hot that would be. If this is true, it could be the first real phone-gaming rival to the iPhone, and will likely offer a very different style of game. The iPhone’s touch-screen is great for puzzlers and strategy games, but when you want to blast through a platformer or just go out and shoot some damn zombies, hardware controls are where it’s at.
I’m uncommonly excited about this rumor, not least because it means that I could likely hack it to run emulators for old consoles and get into some retro-games on my phone.
Rumours are spreading across the InterWebs that Sony Ericsson is working on a PlayStation branded smartphone using the Android 3.0 operating system.
It can sometimes be very difficult to work out where these sort of rumours originally came from, but this one can be clearly laid at the door of website Engadget. Although they're unable to provide any evidence beyond a 'trusted source'.
Said rumourmonger claims that the reason Sony Ericsson hasn't yet released an Android 2.0 device is because it's trying to jump the queue with a cross between a PSPgo and a Samsung Captivate. This apparently means it'll have a landscape slider with 'game controls' instead of a keyboard.
These controls will include a D-pad and a 'long touch pad' instead of analogue controllers - plus standard PlayStation face and shoulder buttons.
The screen is apparently between 3.7 and 4.1 inches in size with WVGA or higher resolution (so in layman's terms its very big and with a very sharp picture). A 5 megapixel camera is also being mooted and a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU.
We've no idea what a Snapdragon CPU is but apparently the graphics will be 'in the range of PSone or PSP games'. That seems surprisingly low tech and not a step-up from the current PSP, let alone the 3DS.
Read More @ metro.co.uk
We've all been there: hands punched violently into pockets, conspicuously affected by the visceral industrial hum of big city decay. If only we had this $25 limited edition 50th anniversary 2GB "stomper" USB drive to complete our ensemble. Who knows, in the right hands it might have helped Jesus build a hotrod.
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Welcome to Engadget's Back to School guide! We know that this time of year can be pretty annoying and stressful for everyone, so we're here to help out with the heartbreaking process of gadget buying for the school-aged crowd. Today, we have e-readers in our sights -- and you can head to the Back to School hub to see the rest of the product guides as they're added throughout the month.
Yes, it's the next round of buying advice for those of you condemned to start hitting the books at the end of the summer. But, with one of these e-readers, you might just have fewer books to hit -- or at least lighter ones. Sadly most schools are still dependent on texts of the pulpy variety, but that doesn't mean an e-reader can't make your life a lot easier at school, and possibly even save you some money if you're reading the classics.
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