Gaming

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Sony slashes $ 50 from the PS3 drops the base model to $ 250

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Beware! Price cuts all around! After the fall of prices 3DS Sony just cut a cool $ 50 from the PS3, dropping 160 GB model to $ 250-$ 300. 320 GB model is also slightly lower, now with a price tag of $ 299.

This puts the PS3 in a couple of better position ahead of the oh so important holiday season. The Wii is currently priced at $ 150 and comes bundled with Mario Kart. The basic model of the Xbox sells for $ 200 or $ 300 with Kinect. Suddenly the PS3 looks much more attractive.

Unfortunately love fall in prices does not apply to European players. Of course the price fell there too, but only up to € 249, which works out to $ 359 USD. This is similar, but not as harsh story in Japan, where the system falls to 24.980 yen, or $ 325 United States dollars.

Sony strives for Microsoft for some time. Xbox 360 is on a seven-month streak be popular console, month after month. Kinect receives user base in the past year, and the effect seems to still hold true. It is the dominance of Microsoft may not respond in kind and with the fall of the 360 price monitor.

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Mad Catz cyborg R.A.T. 7 intro Albino gaming mouse for the style obsessed gamer

You are not sticking to your LAN parties? Your mouse looks like everything else? Do you feel the need for something new, fresh, and, dare I say innovative? Well fellow gaming friend, Mad Catz has something for you!

The company has just announced a new version of his rather strange 7 R.A.T cyborg gaming mouse. This new version, dubbed Albino plan its matte white paint, the same infamous design in the rest of the line R.A.T. together with the extended 6400DPI sensor, which gives better tracking and response. Yes, a friend, this boy will make you King of the nerds at your next LAN party.

Mouse just went to order for $ 99. This is a bit more than your average gaming mouse, but well within the price range of most of the players are ready to give in hopes for more fragi. It is also the same price as the black R.A.T. 7, but will no doubt white hit the ladies — as if the ladies care about the color of your mouse.

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Counter-strike: global assault, coming in 2012 franchises to revive an aging but still Awesome

And for today's news from the left pane, the valve is working on new game counter-strike. So Reverend shooter may soon get updated information. Details does not flow at the moment, but it seems and feels as though this incarnation is going to be in a niche game, to the competitive gaming community. Nevertheless, this new game counter-strike! Get excited!

Counter-strike was released as the half-life mod 12 long years ago. She has since gone on to be their own game and the most popular title on Valve's steam game distribution service. This is and always has been, in short, popular. A whole generation of gamers increased by CS before blew Internet games, counter-strike was LAN party game. (and Starcraft) I had to retake course MSCE because my time was spent tearing up Dust2, instead of studying. It was the FPS, which is defined on the basis of the team of shooters. It was Modern Warfare to modern warfare. The game never really disappeared. He took the valve, making the Team Fortress 2 free games for the game to lose its first place. But it's time to upgrade.

Pro gamers are the ones who spun up mill rumours after tweeting that they actually played the game in valve's headquarters. The game was reported to be released in Q1 2012 and, as mentioned earlier, this is not clear if the CS: global offensive is an updated version of CS: source, or if it is a completely new game. As has been said to be built around the new source engine means that graphics should be from 2012 (or at least 2011). You want to include in the new release is said to have dedicated servers, classic cards and conventional weapons. There will also be new types of weapons, gernades and regimes. Matches apparently 5v5 for eSport scene.

Valve is to issue a statement concerning the upcoming titles something today.

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Friday Time Waster: DOS games in your browser Chrome

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NaClBox (get it?) is a port of DOSBox for DOS games to play right in your browser. Now you can play titles like Star Wars Tie fighter with polyphonic MIDI sound and hot hot VGA graphics. It works on Macs, PCs, and Linux machines and operates under the chrome 13.

To play games, you should include your own client chrome (Na Cl, hence the pun):

In the Chrome address bar, type:
about: flags
Find the section called "Native Client"
Click enable, and then restart chrome.

Game downloads and you are ready to play a bit later. The most interesting to note that this is how the game will likely play under ChromeOS-directly in the browser with almost no lag. If this is better or worse than services, such as a couple I'm not ready to argue, but it does point to some very interesting features coming to the OS.

The site has been around for a while, but they added some new games, and I suspect I just made a few people with this delightful days opening Hackernews.

Project page

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Monday, August 15, 2011

Nice Xperia-Themed play Minecraft for sale on eBay

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One of the more pleasant surprises at E3 this year was our hands-on with Xperia Play. I was really expecting like device, but after playing a few games on it, I found it to be perfectly legitimate, even if the game selection is so hot right now. And Moreover, they were the Minecraft.

As one of the game title for the new platform, it's no wonder that Minecraft becomes a bit official love — today, it takes the form of a really sweet looking Minecraft-themed Xperia play. It is sold, Mojang themselves, so you know that this is real.

It is not clear whether this is a one-off or just the first of many distinctive characters and themes. I'd guess the latter. This has not prevented the trades from topping $ 1200, though — and there are still six days to go at the time of writing this article. But then again, people tend to open their wallets a bit when profits go to charity, as they will.

Some people might think that thing is flashy, but I love it. It maps this mouse pad.

[via Droid gamers and Engadget]

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Today it is a cheap Nintendo 3DS day

Just a reminder: today, cheap Nintendo 3DS day and unfortunately, this is the end of availability for Nintendo's unusual "Ambassador" program. The device is now available for $ 169-down from its launch price of $ 249-and they will launch the 3DS in "flame" aka "Mario" Red in September of this year.

Why this is news? Well as in the case of many recent price reduction, Nintendo is exceeded. Despite the fact that, in theory, 3 DS technology wildly surpassed the previous handheld consoles, the fact remains that these same consoles were just fine for the vast majority of DS games. 3D-and still is – the trick, and although I found fascinating console at launch, I suspect, balking at paying parents another Nintendo console has two and a half.

$ 169 a device that significantly cheaper and far more accessible. However, I worry that the fall will create a negative perception in the market. Console makers have traditionally been very aggressive and faithful in their prices. Console prices to drop sales are far beyond the sales plateau that occurs during startup, the console. Deficit, grey market after sales and General Chatter, all combine to create a perfect storm of income and only when the storm dies down, we see no significant price reductions.

In the end I'm sure Nintendo will do just fine on the 3DS. They are old, more nostalgic market and they understand that the children are happy with the new title Pokemon every few years. However, for them to reduce prices so early is a negative sign in almost all respects, except for one – lower prices means that more people will be willing to try Nintendo's vision for the future of handheld gaming.

Nintendo technology company is widely known for its line of gaming consoles, actually was founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi. It began as a card game company and evolution ...

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Nintendo, based on the Star Fox 64 3D, flame red 3DS to revive struggling handheld

Meet red 3DS. It's very much like the standard model blue and black, but, you know, red. Taste of red flames debuted in Japan some time ago, but Nintendo finally brings it here within the United Nations system to resume Friday. (As if the color red will 3DS)

3DS wasn't exactly a hit yet. The company took a big loss last quarter after sales well below expectations. This is clearly experienced companies reevaluate price of $ 249 3DS, and thus, the system has been reduced to $ 169. The price cut will take effect this Friday, as Nintendo desperately trying to stop the hemorrhaging.

Seemingly 3DS was created to failure from the outset. Built around the market ploy, 3d-ified 3DS started earlier this year without a title blockbuster. Nintendo all telling players to wait. Good games are on their way, they said. So gamers did just that. They have been waiting for. And waited. And good games are still not here. The only notable games so far are just remakes of old games.

Price $ 249 doesn't help either. 3DS, portable Nintendo's most expensive ever. Even its predecessor, virtual boy began in the sub $ 200 price back in 1995. At $ 249 3DS was more expensive than the Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii and more importantly, the iPhone, which taught a generation of games is worth $ 1.99 or less.

3DS was just too expensive and was not supported by the blockbuster Mario or Zelda title on startup. But this coming Friday, August 12, the system gets new chance at life. Red flame model hits the State help celebrate with new price $ 169 and the team of pilots, under the guidance of experienced Fox is ready to help save the 3D portable gaming system from an early death. Do a barrel roll! (It is actually airleron roll, but it's not much of a battle cry).

Nintendo technology company is widely known for its line of gaming consoles, actually was founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi. It began as a card game company and evolution ...

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