Sony: PS3 Will Dominate in a Dead Heat - Spong
In a rather un-spectacular display of confidence David Reeves, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s exiting CEO, has said that the PS3 will be top of the console pile by 2014. “I don’t think it will be next year, but in three to five years it will

Singstar Pop Edition on PS3 - The Sun
WHEN it comes to karaoke games it’s all about the songs. And this release from Sony has every track you’ve ever tried to warble after too many sherbets. From A-Ha to My Chemical Romance, Singstar Pop stands out from its rivals due to its eclectic

Left 4 Dead Free Trial Tomorrow News - TotalVideoGames.com
We’ve received word from Valve that Left 4 Dead will be made freely available over Steam tomorrow with a Freaky Free Friday promotion allowing gamers to sample its delights and maybe, just maybe, buy the game afterwards if they want to. Given that

Sony: PS3 to dominate in 3 to 5 years - Digital Spy
Departing Sony Europe president David Reeves has claimed that the PS3 is three to five years away from dominating the console market. As he prepares to retire from Sony tomorrow after 15 years at the firm, Reeves took the opportunity to express his

Report: Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 graphics card is Mac-bound - Mac Central
A graphics card based on Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 285 chip is headed to the Mac Pro, according to tech blog Engadget . The report indicates that the card is coming this June. The GeForce GTX 285 is one of Nvidia’s most powerful GPU designs; it sports

Prince of Persia - Mac Central
How many reboots can a series take? How many “re-imaginings” can a character last before he becomes a watered down shadow of his former glory, forced to trot through the motions in repetitive games that smack of boredom and unoriginality

Sony Now Expects PlayStation 3 to “Win” in Three to Five Years. - Xbitlabs.com
Despite of the fact that Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.’s PlayStation 3 video game system is behind Microsoft Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii in terms of sales, the outgoing president of Sony Personal Entertainment Europe, David Reeves, said that in

World At War Map Pack 2 Announced - Cinema Blend
Call of Duty: World at War ’s Map Pack 1 was downloaded a million times in its first weekend so a second map pack is a foregone conclusion. Treyarch officially announced it today and revealed what sort of locales the new maps will feature. Like Map

Sony: PS3 Will Dominate In 3~5 Years - Kotaku.com
choose site advertising consumerist deadspin defamer fleshbot gay fleshbot gawker gizmodo idolator io9 jalopnik jezebel kotaku lifehacker valleywag artists gawkershop Is this the year the PS3 takes the top spot? Or is it next year? While the pundits

256-player game on the PS3 - Guardian Unlimited
Killzone 2 and Resistance 2 for the PS3 are both decent games, especially when played online. But neither is likely to tempt 360 owners - who have a stack of first person shooters for their console – to investigate the charms of the PS3

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You might think that everything that could possibly be stated or done with USB missile launchers had already been stated and done, but you’d be wrong — dead wrong. The next (final?) frontier for these staples of modern cube warfare has arrived in the form of an iPhone app, iLauncher, that’ll allow you to control your PC-connected arsenal from afar over WiFi. It’s the coolest use of a phone as a deadly weapon since James Bond ghost rode a Bimmer in Tomorrow Never Dies using some crazy one-off Ericsson, but air / ground supremacy doesn’t come cheap: anticipate to spend $2.99 to nab this off the App Store.

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iLauncher for iPhone makes you more hazardous than a dictator with an inferiority complex originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you find the idea of turntablism without the hardware intriguing, but last year’s surface-based TRAKTOR Scratch DJ system was just a little too abstract for your tastes, here’s a rather clever compromise from Cambridge-based designerTodd Vanderlin. Using a vinyl record equipped with an AR marker, he manipulates the music by moving in front of a video camera. It’s also got the added bonus of being able to control the beat across a three-dimensional space, and if you’re viewing it through the camera’s feed, the middle marker’s replaced by pre-set visuals. Direct your browser to after the break for a video demonstration.

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AR-enhanced vinyl disk lets you scratch sans turntable originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The UK Home Secretary (whatever that is) has put the kibosh on plans for a giant government database that would track all of the country’s emails, phone calls and internet activity. But not so fast, civil libertarians! According to the Telegraph, the onus will merely shift to the private sector — with telecoms and Internet providers being required to retain the data, at a cost of around

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The Google Lunar X Prize obviously hasn’t drawn quite the same number of competitors as some of the more Earthbound X Prizes, but it looks like things are starting to heat up a tiny bit, with Paragon Space Development recently teaming up with Odyssey Moon in an effort to deploy the first greenhouse on the surface of moon. Specifically, the team is hoping to grow a Brassica plant (a member of the mustard family) in a pressurized greenhouse like the one picture above, and possibly even see the plant re-seed itself within a single Lunar day (or 14 Earth days), which just so happens to coincide with the average growth period for the plant on Earth. Of course, that would only be one small part of the X Prize mission, which first and foremost requires teams to safely land a craft, send some live video back to Earth, travel at least 500 meters, send some more video, and carry a payload. So, still a tiny ways off, but don’t let that stop you from checking out the (autoplaying) video after the break, in which Paragon’s Taber MacCallum (a Biosphere veteran himself) explains the project to the folks at Engineering TV.

Continue reading Researchers tout plans for moon greenhouse, Silent Running sequel

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Researchers tout plans for moon greenhouse, Silent Running sequel originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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IBM’s already proven that a computer from its labs can take on the world’s best at chess, but what’ll happen when the boundaries of a square-filled board are removed? Researchers at the outfit are obviously excited to find out, today revealing that its Watson system will be pitted against brilliant Earthlings on Jeopardy! in an attempt to further artificial intelligence when it comes to semantics and searching for indexed information. Essentially, the machine will have to be remarkably labile in order to understand “analogies, puns, double entendres and relationships like size and location,” something that robotic linguists have long struggled with. There’s no mention of a solid date when it comes to the competition itself, but you can bet we’ll be setting our DVRs whenever it’s announced. Check out a video of the progress after the break.

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IBM’s Watson to rival humans in round of Jeopardy! originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The highly stylized third-person shooter WET is coming to PS3 and Xbox 360 after all, Bethesda announced this day. Why’d Bethesda announce it? Well, because they’re the ones publishing it. In WET, players assume the role of Rubi Malone, a mercenary who More

As most people reading this know, I was late to pick up a PS3. It wasn’t my fault- I would have loved to pick one up, but the price range kept it out of my grasp till a few months ago, when my wife picked it up for me as a wedding gift. (Good one, eh More

Capcom and Monumental games prepping new installment in motorcycle-racing sim franchise. Last year, Capcom locked down the exclusive rights to make games based on the MotoGP championship racing circuit , a deal that will remain in effect until 2012 More

choose site advertising consumerist deadspin defamer fleshbot gay fleshbot gawker gizmodo idolator io9 jalopnik jezebel kotaku lifehacker valleywag artists gawkershop Patrick Fortier, A2M creative director for WET , sat down and talked with me last More

In an industry already beset by a brutal pricing war — and where Sony has always been lambasted for the exceedingly high price of its PS3 (despite the quantum advances in technology under the hood, not to mention the Blu-ray player included), a More

Tekken 6 will arrive on the Xbox 360 and PS3 at the end of the year but another gaming platform will get in on the fun, too. Nope, not the PC - the Playstation Portable. Tekken 6 will be the second game in the series to hit the PSP. Tekken 5: Dark More

Doncaster, UK. 29th April, 2009 – BLAZE have today announced their latest addition to their rapidly expanding video game accessories range. The BLAZE Wireless Controller Keypad is set to revolutionize how we navigate our PS3 interface making More

Featuring Five-Versus-Five Player Matches Competitively, and Up To Three Player Cooperative Modes; Franchise Adds Hours of Replayabilty. Santa Monica, Calif.– Sony Personal Entertainment America today announced that UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves More

The next installment in Namco’s popular 3D fighting series is coming to the 360 and PS3 in fall 2009. This edition of Start/Select is an Atari special, as we meet with the developers of Ghostbusters, Tekken 6, and many more to find out about their More

Ubisoft is already preparing for new hardware, CEO Yves Guillemot said alongside the company’s full year results announcements this day. “We need to get ready for the future generation of consoles,” he said emphatically on the company’s conference call More

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Here you go, the first USB 3.0 cable that we’re aware of has gone on sale over at USBfever. Interestingly, the cable’s feature list states, “it is 10 times faster than USB 2.0.” Sure, as long as it’s hooked up to a USB 3.0 SuperSpeed host which it won’t be until 2010. USBfever: So hot we’re hallucinating.

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USB 3.0 cables go on sale one year early originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There are horologes, and then there’s La Machine

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While we here at Engadget are doing everything in our power to get this philosophical “economy” back “on track,” it’s items like these that aren’t doing anything to help. No innovation. No stimulating abilities. No utility at all, really. Just a webcam that scans business cards, an MP3 player shaped like a cow and a flash drive that’s completely not certified for circulation by the Democratic National Committee. Though, we have to state that they’re all tailor made for Crapgadget, which is (just barely) good enough for us — drop your vote for the lamest below!

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Crapgadget: No wonder the economy sucks edition originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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