http://discuss.slashgear.com/tags/gaming Discuss Gadgets! en-US Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:45:53 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://discuss.slashgear.com/search.php http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/best-psp-mod-ever-adds-leds-cam-joystick#post-8782 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:09:29 +0000 Shane McGlaun 8782@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <blockquote><p>I have a couple PSPs around my house that have been here for a long time. They never get played because they just aren&#8217;t that fun. My son plays the Nintendo DS and leaves the PSP collecting dust in the junk drawer. A new <a href="http://hacknmod.com/hack/epic-psp-mod-includes-leds-camera-joystick-more/">PSP mod</a> has added some much needed cool to the PSP with a camera, joystick, LED lights, and a lot more.</p> <p><img src="http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/pspmod-sg.jpg" alt="pspmod sg" width="500" height="263" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-78142" title="" /></p> </blockquote> <p><br/><strong>Full Story:</strong> <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/best-psp-mod-ever-adds-leds-cam-joystick-1878141/">Best PSP mod ever adds LEDs, cam, joystick</a></p> http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/super-vision-chip-scans-200-page-book-in-60-seconds-has-natal-style-gaming-potential-video#post-8745 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:37:33 +0000 Chris Davies 8745@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <blockquote><p>After speculation earlier today about <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/playstation-move-lag-measured-speed-games-might-suffer-1778040/" target="_blank">the lag involved</a> in Sony&#8217;s PlayStation Move system, how about a <em>really</em> fast camera?  <a href="http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/ishikawa/ishikawa-e.html" target="_blank">University of Tokyo professor</a> Masatoshi Ishikawa <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/book-flipping-scanning" target="_blank">has developed</a> the simply-titled &#8220;Super Vision Chip&#8221;, capable of scanning an entire 200 page book in a minute (you can see the demo after the cut).  While obviously that would make digitizing documents more straightforward, Ishikawa reckons the system also has potential in gaming.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-78073" title="book_scanning_demo_video" src="http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/book_scanning_demo_video.jpg" alt="book scanning demo video" width="540" height="356" /></p> <p><em>Video demo after the cut</em></p> </blockquote> <p><br/><strong>Full Story:</strong> <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/super-vision-chip-scans-200-page-book-in-60-seconds-has-natal-style-gaming-potential-video-1778072/">Super Vision Chip scans 200 page book in 60 seconds; has Natal-style gaming potential [Video]</a></p> http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/playstation-move-lag-measured-speed-games-might-suffer#post-8717 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:45:04 +0000 Chris Davies 8717@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <blockquote><p>Sony&#8217;s <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/tags/playstation-move/" target="_blank">PlayStation Move</a> motion-controller is certainly catching plenty of attention lately, but just how accurate is the system in action?  Sony themselves are claiming &#8220;under 1 frame&#8221; lag from the hardware, but when combined with a game (that may be tweaked to smooth out jerky user-input), a flatscreen display and the console itself, real-world performance has the potential to be pretty different.  Eurogamer took along a 60fps-capable camcorder to <a href="http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/playstation-move-controller-lag-analysis-blog-entry" target="_blank">shoot some footage</a> of Move in action, and then ran their stopwatch over the results.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-78041" title="PlayStation Move 1" src="http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/PlayStation-Move-11-540x390.jpg" alt="PlayStation Move 11 540x390" width="540" height="390" /></p> </blockquote> <p><br/><strong>Full Story:</strong> <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/playstation-move-lag-measured-speed-games-might-suffer-1778040/">PlayStation Move lag measured: speed-games might suffer?</a></p> http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/razer-offers-first-ever-deathadder-gaming-mouse-for-lefties#post-8710 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:21:58 +0000 Bandare 8710@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <p>Brilliant and a great move indeed!</p> http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/razer-offers-first-ever-deathadder-gaming-mouse-for-lefties#post-8699 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:35:21 +0000 Shane McGlaun 8699@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <blockquote><p>Razer has made some of the best gaming peripherals around for years now. The company tries to support smaller groups of gamers like <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/razer-plans-future-mac-support-also-adding-existing-products-1077316/">Mac</a> users along with the majority of PC users. Razer has announced a new mouse for a group of gamers that might be even smaller than the number of Mac gamers out there &#8212; lefties.</p> <p><img src="http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/deathadderleft-sg.jpg" alt="deathadderleft sg" width="500" height="308" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-77987" title="" /></p> </blockquote> <p><br/><strong>Full Story:</strong> <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/razer-offers-first-ever-deathadder-gaming-mouse-for-lefties-1777986/">Razer offers first ever DeathAdder gaming mouse for lefties</a></p> http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/leaked-xbox-360-8220slim8221-board-tips-incoming-refresh#post-8693 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:40:46 +0000 Chris Davies 8693@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <blockquote><p>In our collective haste to pester Nintendo about the next-gen update to the <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/tags/wii" target="_blank">Wii</a>, we sometimes forget that Microsoft&#8217;s <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/tags/xbox-360" target="_blank">Xbox 360</a> is beginning to look a little long in the tooth too.  A new image purported to be of the refreshed Xbox 360&#8217;s <a href="http://bbs.a9vg.com/read.php?tid=1393868" target="_blank">mainboard has emerged</a>, and most obvious is that Microsoft have put the console on a diet &#8211; it&#8217;s considerably smaller than the current &#8216;board in use.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-77966" title="Xbox 360 board leak" src="http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Xbox-360-board-leak-518x500.jpg" alt="Xbox 360 board leak 518x500" width="518" height="500" /></p> </blockquote> <p><br/><strong>Full Story:</strong> <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/leaked-xbox-360-slim-board-tips-incoming-refresh-1777965/">Leaked Xbox 360 &#8220;Slim&#8221; board tips incoming refresh?</a></p> http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/astro-a30-cost-150-and-connects-to-all-your-gaming-platforms#post-8675 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:09:08 +0000 Evan Selleck 8675@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <blockquote><p>A few years ago, the bigger your sound system was, the better your house was. You were the envy of all your friends, neighbors, and relatives. And while that may still be the case in some houses around the world, it&#8217;s definitely looking like the headphone revolution is still going strong. In this case, we&#8217;ve got a pair of gaming headphones that aren&#8217;t just for your computer. Oh no, Astro wants to make sure that if you play a game, that you can plug in your expensive, shiny new headphones into whatever it is you&#8217;re playing it on.</p> <p><img src="http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Astro-A30-540x405.jpg" alt="Astro A30 540x405" width="540" height="405" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-77928" title="" /></p> </blockquote> <p><br/><strong>Full Story:</strong> <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/astro-a30-cost-150-and-connects-to-all-your-gaming-platforms-1677927/">Astro A30 Costs $150 and Connects to All Your Gaming Platforms</a></p> http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/velocity-micro-z55-raptor-lx665-and-lx775-get-hexacore-i7-980x-extreme#post-8660 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:46:18 +0000 Chris Davies 8660@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <blockquote><p><img class="size-full wp-image-77880 alignright" title="velocity_micro_z55" src="http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/velocity_micro_z55.jpg" alt="velocity micro z55" width="230" height="274" />Okay, we&#8217;re getting the feeling that just about every high-spec PC manufacturer plan to put Intel&#8217;s new hexacore Core i7-980X Extreme processor into their gaming offering, and they they plan to tell us all about it.  <a href="http://velocitymicro.com/" target="_blank">Velocity Micro</a> are the latest &#8211; following in the steps of <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/maingear-shift-gets-core-i7-980x-hexacore-cpu-1677870/" target="_blank">MAINGEAR</a> and <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/digital-storm-blackops-pc-overclocks-core-i7-980x-to-4-44ghz-1677876/" target="_blank">Digital Storm</a> &#8211; to update their range, packing the new CPU into their Edge Z55, Raptor Lx665 and Lx775 machines.</p> <p>As with the other firms, the rest of the specs for each desktop don&#8217;t change from before, only the CPU.  So, the Z55 remains Velocity Micro&#8217;s configurable machine, priced from $1,799 normally but jumping to $2,824 when you throw in the hexacore.</p> </blockquote> <p><br/><strong>Full Story:</strong> <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/velocity-micro-z55-raptor-lx665-and-lx775-get-hexacore-i7-980x-extreme-1677879/">Velocity Micro Z55, Raptor Lx665 and Lx775 get hexacore i7-980X Extreme</a></p> http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/digital-storm-blackops-pc-overclocks-core-i7-980x-to-444ghz#post-8657 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:14:20 +0000 Chris Davies 8657@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <blockquote><p>It&#8217;s not only <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/maingear-shift-gets-core-i7-980x-hexacore-cpu-1677870/" target="_blank">MAINGEAR</a> playing games with Intel&#8217;s latest Core i7-980X Extreme processor.  The new hexacore has <a href="http://maxborgesagencyblog.com/2010/03/16/digital-storm’-black-│ops-gaming-pc-integrates-world’s-fastest-cpu-at-4-4ghz/" target="_blank">found its way</a> into Digital Storm&#8217;s similarly-stonking <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/digital-storm-blackops-core-i5i7-gaming-desktops-debut-1173753/" target="_blank">BlackOPS desktop</a>, but they&#8217;ve not seen fit to leave its 3.33GHz alone; instead, opt for their TwisterBoost overclocking package and they&#8217;ll crank the Core i7 all the way up to 4.44GHz.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-77877" title="Digital_Storm_BlackOPS" src="http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Digital_Storm_BlackOPS-522x500.jpg" alt="Digital Storm BlackOPS 522x500" width="522" height="500" /></p> </blockquote> <p><br/><strong>Full Story:</strong> <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/digital-storm-blackops-pc-overclocks-core-i7-980x-to-4-44ghz-1677876/">Digital Storm BlackOPS PC overclocks Core i7-980X to 4.44GHz</a></p> http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/maingear-shift-gets-core-i7-980x-hexacore-cpu#post-8652 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:44:29 +0000 Chris Davies 8652@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <blockquote><p>The job of a high-spec PC manufacturer is never done; just when you think your crazy gaming desktop is done and dusted, there are new processors to be slotted inside.  <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/tags/maingear/" target="_blank">MAINGEAR</a> have announced <a href="http://www.maingear.com/custom/desktops/shift/" target="_blank">an update</a> to their <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/?s=maingear+shift" target="_blank">SHIFT &#8220;everyday super computer&#8221;</a>, using Intel&#8217;s new Core i7-980X 3.33GHz hexacore CPU.  That goes into the mixture with Crucial&#8217;s RealSSD C300 &#8211; hooked up to a SATA 6G connection, naturally &#8211; and USB 3.0.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-77871" title="maingear_shift_personal_supercomputer_1-371x500" src="http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/maingear_shift_personal_supercomputer_1-371x500.jpg" alt="maingear shift personal supercomputer 1 371x500" width="371" height="500" /></p> </blockquote> <p><br/><strong>Full Story:</strong> <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/maingear-shift-gets-core-i7-980x-hexacore-cpu-1677870/">MAINGEAR SHIFT gets Core i7-980X hexacore CPU</a></p> http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/windows-phone-7-series-video-demos-associated-press-the-harvest-xbox-gaming#post-8610 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:06:25 +0000 Vincent Nguyen 8610@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <blockquote><p>Microsoft have been demonstrating some of the software that has already been created for <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/tags/windows-phone-7" target="_blank">Windows Phone 7 series</a> in <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/tags/silverlight" target="_blank">Silverlight</a>, including the Associated Press&#8217; news reader app and <em>The Harvest</em>, a 3D Xbox game which links the gamer&#8217;s achievements into Xbox LIVE.  The ongoing theme throughout has been how straightforward development can be, together with the strength of the platform (and the Snapdragon-based hardware, of course).  Check out video demos after the cut.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-77693" title="windows_phone_7_series_xbox_gaming" src="http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/windows_phone_7_series_xbox_gaming-540x332.jpg" alt="windows phone 7 series xbox gaming 540x332" width="540" height="332" /></p> </blockquote> <p><br/><strong>Full Story:</strong> <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/windows-phone-7-series-video-demos-associated-press-the-harvest-xbox-gaming-1577692/">Windows Phone 7 series video demos: Associated Press &#038; The Harvest Xbox gaming</a></p> http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/alienware-m11x-video-unboxing#post-8596 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:24:16 +0000 basho 8596@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <p>I **LOVE** my M11x! I got it a few weeks ago and have been hammering out a review while playing COD4:MW2 and Fallout 3, which both run at high FPS &#8211; very nice! I also hooked it up for some Blu Ray playing and film making duties. I noticed a bug in playing Blu Rays out of the box and the fix is in my review at Outside Context. See: <a href="http://www.outsidecontext.com/2010/03/08/dell-alienware-m11x-review/" rel="nofollow">http://www.outsidecontext.com/.....1x-review/</a> for all the details!</p> http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/nintendo-ds2-details-leak-bigger-higher-res-screens-accelerometer-late-2010-launch#post-8581 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:33:10 +0000 Chris Davies 8581@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <blockquote><p>Nintendo&#8217;s <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/tags/dsi-xl" target="_blank">DSi XL</a> isn&#8217;t even on US shelves yet, and already gamers are prodding developers to find out details about the next-gen handheld.  News on the Nintendo DS2 was top of the list for RPad.TV when <a href="http://rpad.tv/2010/03/12/nintendo-ds2-information-unearthed-at-gdc-2010/" target="_blank">they hit up GDC 2010</a>, and they&#8217;ve managed to extract a few choice nuggets in the process.  The DS2 &#8211; the official name of which nobody would, or could, spill &#8211; will apparently keep its dual-displays, but the panels will be larger, higher-resolution and have so minimal a gap between them that titles will be able to in effect use them as a single, big screen.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-77602" title="nintendo_ds2_concept" src="http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/nintendo_ds2_concept-540x387.jpg" alt="nintendo ds2 concept 540x387" width="540" height="387" /></p> </blockquote> <p><br/><strong>Full Story:</strong> <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/nintendo-ds2-details-leak-bigger-higher-res-screens-accelerometer-late-2010-launch-1577601/">Nintendo DS2 details leak: bigger, higher-res screens, accelerometer, late-2010 launch?</a></p> http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/complete-ps3-problem-list/page/4#post-8561 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:44:01 +0000 Beevee64 8561@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <p>Hello</p> <p>When I switch on ps3, I just get the wavy/twinkling star backround but nothing else e.g. user names, settings, ps network etc etc. Does anyone know the cause of the problem and how it might be fixed? </p> <p>Thanks</p> http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/sony-psp-go-suffering-appalling-japanese-sales#post-8546 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:05:28 +0000 Chris Davies 8546@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <blockquote><p>Rumors of a <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/psp-go-relaunch-rumor-surfaces-0372657/" target="_blank">Sony PSP Go relaunch</a> seem all the more believable this week, as the latest &#8211; unofficial &#8211; sales figures for the handheld are released in Japan.  <a href="http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.m-create.com%2Franking%2F&amp;sl=ja&amp;tl=en&amp;hl=&amp;ie=UTF-8" target="_blank">According to</a> market watchers Media Create, Sony sold a mere 1,275 PSP Go devices in the first week of March; contrast that with Sony&#8217;s own PSP, which sold 64,808 devices in the same period.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-77537" title="sony_psp_go" src="http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/sony_psp_go-540x325.jpg" alt="sony psp go 540x325" width="540" height="325" /></p> </blockquote> <p><br/><strong>Full Story:</strong> <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/sony-psp-go-suffering-appalling-japanese-sales-1277536/">Sony PSP Go suffering appalling Japanese sales?</a></p>