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iBuyPower Plans Multi-Touch Gaming Laptops

Touch technology is a godsend on our phones and tablets, but can it do anything innovative for gaming? Boutique PC vendor, iBuyPower, is betting so with the announcement of its new 15-inch Battalion Touch CZ-10 multi-touch gaming notebook--the first in a new series from the company. No other specs ... More...

Top 5: Android Apps

Top 5: Android Apps 05 August 2009 Our current favourites on Google's mobile OS Android With the recent launch of the best Android phone yet , the HTC Hero, we figured the time was ripe to dive into the Android Marketplace and source the absolute top apps for anyone in on the worst kept secre... More...

Nikon issues service advisory advisory for D5000

Nikon has released a service advisory for its D5000 DSLR. It addresses power issues with a specific batch of D5000's. Affected cameras can be identified by their serial numbers, which will apparently be added to Nikon's website next week. These cameras will be repaired for free by contacting the com... More...

T-Mobile Launches myTouch 3G; No Plans for HTC Hero

While Google Chrome OS is the hottest news right now, Google's Android OS is still revving to invade the smartphone market. At the T-Mobile myTouch 3G launch event in New York City this morning, T-Mobile execs announced that the T-Mobile myTouch 3G is available for online pre-orders starting ... More...

Mobile Choice Awards 2009

Mobile Choice Awards 2009 09 July 2009 Enter our awards voting and go into the running to win a fab prize It's coming up to our annual Mobile Choice Awards and we need you, our readers and fellow phone know it alls, to vote for the best mobile services and phones.   Just hit up our ... More...

IPhone 3.0 From a Corporate Point of View

If you follow the buzz on Twitter, you'd think that the iPhone 3.0 update began with copy and paste functionality and ended with Spotlight search capabilities . While those are the most popular new features in the new version of the iPhone OS , they're not the only new tricks by any means. Along... More...

Final Fantasy XIII Post-E3 Wrapup

What's going on with the plot? Who was that new guy? And so on. By Kevin Gifford , 06/10/2009 This week's Famitsu brought together Final Fantasy XIII producer Yoshinori Kitase, director Motomu Toriyama, and art director Isamu Kamikokuryo to answer a few burning questions from Square Enix... More...

NCsoft Announces Second City Of Heroes Expansion

Going Rogue will allow heroes to go over to the dark side. By Kat Bailey , 05/12/2009 City of Heroes recently celebrated its fifth anniversary, but it's only now getting to its second expansion. With Cryptic's Champions Online looming large though, now is as good a time as any for a majo... More...

Nobunaga's Ambition Arrives On Virtual Console

Nintendo offering 16 bits of Warring States Period strategy for 800 Points. By Kat Bailey , 04/27/2009 When Nobunaga's Ambition first arrived in 1988, I had no idea how to pronounce it. I insisted on calling it "Nobunaga's" Ambition. Forgive me, I was only five at the time. The g... More...

Ricoh releases firmware update for GR Digital II camera

Ricoh has released a firmware update for the GR Digital II compact camera. Version 2.30 includes manual flash control as well as the ability to to save white balance compensation values under 'my settings'. A new feature, 'Today's Shots' displays the number of images recorded on a particular date ... More...

Final Fantasy XIII Demo: Lightning-Quick Impressions

By Chris Kohler April 16, 2009 | 1:51:49 PM Categories: Console Games    The long-awaited demo version of Final Fantasy XIII has arrived in the Game|Life offices. I'll be writing a full set of lengthy impressions for Friday, but here are my first thoughts aft... More...

OLED Screens, Blu-ray Players and Brain Control

January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is a great place to see new gadgets but they're not always available right away. A couple of the coolest gadgets from this year's CES, Sony's OLED-based Walkman and Samsung's slim Blu-ray Disk player, are now on their way with availability from April.... More...

Japanese Robotic Exoskeleton Looks Cool, Dorky

The Japanese have a knack for developing movie and television inspired tech products that straddle the fine line of usefulness and nerdy fantasy. From a robotic maid that look like a Gundam, to an extremely true to form R2D2 video projector , Japanese electronics companies spare no expense in dev... More...

Assassin's Creed 2 Teaser Site Goes Live

New site depicts a series of mysterious charts and the word "Animus." By Kat Bailey , 04/06/2009 Assassin's Creed 2 'Debut' trailer Ubisoft has officially kicked the Assassin's Creed 2 hype machine into gear. A teaser site is online, depicting a series of mysterious charts ... More...

Stardock Unveils 'Goo' DRM Solution

By Earnest Cavalli March 25, 2009 | 3:18:03 PM Categories: PC Gaming    The next update released for the Impulse digital distribution platform will include something called "Goo," a system that publisher Stardock hopes will "pave the wa... More...

Monopoly on N-Gage

Monopoly on N-Gage 10 March 2009 Classic board game goes (slightly) high-tech Yep, the 70-year-old board game has migrated to your N-gage handset. Monopoly: Here and Now - the World Edition was recently published by Electronic Arts, and if you liked Monopoly on the board, you'll like it on you... More...

Beijing Startup Develops Web Media Player for TV

A fledgling software developer in Beijing has developed an embedded application that it hopes will bridge the gap between PCs and consumer electronics, allowing users to easily play computer video and audio files through their televisions and stereos. Called Nth Code Player, the application was dev... More...

Silent Hill May Be Getting A Remake

Remake of the original potentially coming to the Wii and PSP. By Kat Bailey , 02/26/2009 Silent Hill 2 is generally regarded as the best of the fog-shrouded franchise, but the original gets plenty of love too. How much love? Enough that it may be getting a remake. Rumors abound at videoga... More...

Video: Riddick And Robots in Latest Dark Athena Clip

By Earnest Cavalli February 20, 2009 | 3:43:10 PM Categories: Console Games    I definitely dig the latest trailer from The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena , but honestly this clip is raising more questions for me than it answers. First, why is spa... More...

Microsoft Brings Back "Deal of the Week" with Braid

Gold members can grab painterly puzzler for 800 MS Points. By Steve Watts , 02/23/2009 Major Nelson gives word that the Xbox Live "Deal of the Week" is coming back, starting today with a discount on Braid . The game will be offered for 800 Microsoft Points ($10 USD) this week, b... More...
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