Three gaming keypads go head to head

Today we're featuring three new gaming keypads competing to take up that empty space to the left (or right) of your existing keyboard. First there's the updated Flexiglow Cyber Snipa, designed exclusively for FPS gaming with its creative layout...

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80GB PlayStation 3 coming soon ... to Korea

Strangely the company denies having any plans to ship the (slightly) enlarged PS3 to any other territories even though sources report it has already been presented for FCC filing. Does any of this mean anything? Well, it means Sony...

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Ideazon Fang Gamepad reviewed

Now, Ideazon has released the Fang Gamepad, a spin-off from the MERC keyboard, that includes a dedicated gaming area specifically designed for WASD and FPS games, sans keyboard. This portable and standalone unit is great for those of us who...

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iDea - All-In-One Docking Station

The iDea Wireless Home Dock for the iPod and PSP actually sounds like a product I’d like to own. It allows you to dock, simultaneously, any iPod, and your PSP, and an MP3 player and a Sony Walkman phone. Not...

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PS3 to borrow Nintendo's motion-sensitive controller

At E3 in Los Angeles, Sony has unveiled its new PS3 controller design - featuring "six degrees" of tilt sensing. Stealing a trick from Nintendo's oddly-named Wii home console, the PS3 wireless controller senses the direction you tilt and turn...

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PS3 specs and prices confirmed - verdict: flippin' expensive

Sony will launch the PlayStation 3 console in Europe on 17 November, pricing the next-generation console and Blu-ray Disc player at just €499 (£342). As expected, the 'banana' controller unveiled by Sony last year has gone, replaced by a more...

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Pertelian X2040 - programmable external LCD screen for IM and more

External LCDs have long been a popular toy for the hardware-inclined enthusiast, but now they are starting to go mainstream. The Pertelian X2040 is not the only external display product aimed at PC gamers, but it is one of the...

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MPGlass 230M video glasses

The MPGlass 230M hook up to your DVD, VCR or games console. Once you've got them on, you can see a display that apparently gives the effect of watching a 30-inch screen at a 2 metre distance, plus stereo sound...

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$10,000 Dell system

Dell have announced the XPS 600 Renegade, their latest top-of-the-line gaming system: The limited-edition, custom-painted machine packs the industry's first dedicated physics accelerator, the AGEIA PhysX processor; NVIDIA Quad-SLI graphicc with four NVIDIA GeForce 7900 processors; Sound Blaster X-Fi Ftal1ty...

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Japanese MiniPC VS700 uber-connected PC

MiniPC presents their VS700, a mini PC that has a Celeron M370 or Pentium M740, 256 or 512MB of RAM (ext. to 2GB), 40GB of (2.5") HDD space and a 915GMS Express (128MB) graphics chipset. It's really when it comes...

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Genius HS-04SU headset reviewed

For the shockingly-low price of £10.43:The Genius HS-04SU headset is suitable for a wide verity of applications, from playing games to using it for VoIP services. It represents an affordable option and offers good sound quality both in terms of...

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Thomson's 5 button Gyration mouse

The Gyration can be used up to 30 feet away from the PC, whilst 80 frequencies, 800 virtual channels and auto channel selection ensure there's no interference. With five buttons and a scroll wheel all on the one device, the...

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Portable 4GB HDD for Xbox 360

The portable 4GB hard drive, which powers directly from the 360, connects via USB 2.0 and features a glowing green power button. The device is essentially a Flash drive, and while similar products can be modified for use with the...

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Nintendo Revamps Nintendo DS Handheld

The "Nintendo DS Lite" features a smaller case design than the original DS and a higher-quality screen with four brightness settings. According to Nintendo, the name "Lite" is a play on words meant to emphasize both the system's lightweight design...

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Dell XPS M170 laptop reviewed

When Michael Dell showed off the XPS-M170 laptop at CES, he highlighted what he called the portable's "incredible gaming power." And the raw specs of the laptop certainly sound impressive: 17-inch widescreen display, GeForce Go 7800 GTX for graphics, Pentium...

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Soldius Solar Golf Bag

’m not sure the guy behind you is going to be thrilled when he catches you banging away on your cellphone and/or Blackberry on the links, but the Soldius golf bag will certainly make it easy to stay in touch...

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Nintendo Revolution to sell for less than $300

Speaking on Friday last week Nintendo VP of Sales and Marketing Reggie (yes, people are still called ‘Reggie’) Fils-Aime announced that the Revolution will sell for less than $300: under £170 in UK coin. We don’t know how this could...

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Iwod G10 PMP with NES emulator

The curiously-named Iwod G10 is a smallish Game Boy-looking PMP that performs all of the usual multimedia functions, but whose real draw is a bulit-in NES emulator. That's right, along with supporting your MP3, WMA, FLAC, MPEG-4, and AVI files,...

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Diary of a broken 360

Red lights are bad lights when you're in a hurry to get somewhere or are jonesing for some next-gen playtime, and the red lights are exactly what Gina saw when she fired up her Xbox 360 this past Sunday. Don't...

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Alienware Area-51 m7700 dual-drive notebook

Alienware's latest beefy laptop adds something new to the desktop-replacement game: two of Seagate's new Momentus 5400 RPM 2.5-inch 160GB drives. Other specs include a 17-inch widescreen display, Pentium 4 at up to 3.8GHz, and a backbreaking weight of 12...

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PS2 and Xbox price cuts coming

With the launch of the PS3 slated for some time later this year and Microsoft's new Xbox 360 already out, now is the obvious time to make such a move. The report draws a parallel with the situation in 1999,...

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PlayStation 3 pr0n, nothing of substance

As expected, amidst the rather strong launch of the Xbox 360, Sony decided to sit the PlayStation out of CES. Well... not entirely. They did have some units on display, as Hexus.gaming proudly trumpets, but nothing new; there were no...

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