Monday, October 12, 2009 - 4:15pm
I guess the whole point of the Nintendo Wii is to get you off your ass. This latest Wii accessory/game keeps you on your butt, but you still get to move. Sort of. It's the Cyberbike from Bigben Interactive, a...
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Monday, October 12, 2009 - 12:07pm
Console accessory-maker Blaze decided that Sony's official motion controller — already Wiimote-esque save for the ball attached to the end of it — wasn't Wiimote enough. The solution? Rip off Nintendo's wand controller wholesale and sell it as a PS3...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 7:41am
The Wii sensor bar is designed to be small and unnoticeable as it sits either above or below your TV, telling the Wii where in space your controllers are. But if you want to turn it into a big, noticeable...
Monday, September 28, 2009 - 6:58am
Are you terrible at the baseball game that comes with Wii Sports? Well, I have some bad news: spending $15 on an officially-licensed Louisville Slugger bat-shaped plastic accessory that the Wiimote snaps into won't make you any better. In fact,...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 12:44pm
Who woulda thunk it? Apparently the 3-year-old Wiimote is the ideal form factor for motion control (unless you opt to go sans controller), as the still unnamed — though now finalized — motion controller for the PlayStation 3 looks just...
Monday, September 21, 2009 - 8:45am
Square Enix is the biggest game developer in Japan, so when president Yoichi Wada speaks, people listen. And when he says that Nintendo is prepping a next-gen, high definition Wii with a brand-new motion controller for 2011, we believe him....
Friday, September 18, 2009 - 1:16pm
Face it: you're no athlete. The closest you'll ever come to the Super Bowl is in a Madden game. But hey, that's not so bad! Madden is fun! If you want to feel a bit more like a superstar, this...
Monday, August 31, 2009 - 10:17am
Nothing says family fun like a terrifying, four-legged robotic spider being controlled by modified Wii controllers. Or does it? Because that's just what this thing is. With a price of about $1,000, this is one fancy piece of useless machinery....
Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 12:40pm
As expected, Microsoft announced a price cut for an Xbox 360, from $399 to $299 for the "elite" version, effective starting tomorrow. It comes with the bigger hard drive you're definitely going to want, but it doesn't come with an...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 12:03pm
Waterloo Labs is a group of breathlessly enthusiastic engineering nerds in Austin. For their latest project, they rigged up a big screen with accelerometers that sense the position of any impact. They then projected Half-Life onto the screen and hired...
