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playstation 3 price cut rumors part 5 bajillion: $100 cut coming in mid-august?

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Sony revealed a lot of things at E3, but a price cut wasn’t one of them. Now I don’t know if this new-old rumor has anything behind it, but Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia is claiming that “industry sources” are claiming that “a $100 price cut on the PS3 in mid-August, just prior the launch of Madden (8/18) and the start…

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June 10th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: gadgets video games

kojima-signed gunmetal gray ps3 on ebay: won’t be there for long that’s for sure

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It’s a sad day for seller/mgs fan/sad person ids3remix, as he put up his limited edition gunmetal gray 40 GB Playstation 3 for sale on eBay. I think he really needs the money, stat, or else he wouldn’t be selling his beloved console. For those who don’t know, Sony made only 9000 of the gunmetal gray PS3 for their MGS4…

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June 10th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: home entertainment media players technology video games

black nintendo wii, red dsi for japan

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Rejoice (Japan)! New colors for Nintendo entertainment systems! And at last, new colors for the Wii. Well, new color, singular. Well, sort of a color. It’s black. Well, it’s different, anyway.

The new DSi is decked out in red, which is nice, but not a patch on this sexy black Wii.

While the matte surface is much more practical for…

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June 5th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: technology video games

sony psp go pics leaked – price and release date revealed

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Check out these photos of the new Sony PSP Go portable videogame console / media player that just hit the Interweb.

The PSP Go is a new handheld that lightens the load of the older PSP models by making games available via wireless download or on Memory Stick Micro cards. Bye, bye UMD! It’s been nice knowing you.

The PSP…

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May 30th, 2009 comments (17) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: mobile tech technology video games

technabob quickpix: when a picture is worth 1000 words

video console cakes offer a little something old, a little something new…

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While these lumpy cakes certainly aren’t the most precise video game inspired baked goods I’ve featured here on Technabob, this is definitely the first time I’ve seen so many console cakes congregated in the same place.

There are cakey versions of the Gamecube, an NES, an Atari 2600, a TurboGrafx-16, a Sega Genesis and a Nintendo Wii all gathered around…

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April 25th, 2009 comments (4) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: geek art + craft quickpix retro video games

zeebo, “the fourth big console” to be released in brazil this july (boa sorte!)

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At the ongoing Game Developers Conference in California, Zeebo Inc. unveiled the Zeebo, a video game console for people in the “middle class” of developing countries. The Zeebo will initially be offered in Brazil this July via a partnership with Brazilian manufacturer Tectoy. Zeebo Inc. plans to make the console available in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, as…

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March 25th, 2009 comments (4) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: home entertainment interactive technology video games

fuzebox: retro 8-bit gaming goes open source

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Always thought you could improve on the gameplay of Tetris? Fancy yourself the creator of the next Super Mario Brothers? Thanks to this open source gaming system – if you’ve got the programming chops, you’ve got the chance to make the next great 8-bit video game.

The Fuzebox is a complete 8-bit gaming platform in a box that’s not much…

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March 11th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: hacks + mods retro video games

long-ass ps3 ad measures data by sunflowers

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Gigabytes? Pssh. The Cell processor is the future. Of what exactly I don’t know, but it’s the future. The Cell is in each and every Playstation 3. Sony makes Playstation 3s. So if Sony says that 5GB of data equals 5 sunflowers then 5GB of data equals 5 sunflowers.

This groundbreaking technological term was first used in this epic commercial…

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March 6th, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: just plain fun video games

pandora open source handheld design gets updated

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Remember the Pandora open source handheld gaming console? Well after a long wait, it looks like the portable gaming system is getting closer to production from the looks of this revised design rendering I spotted over on the Open Pandora blog.

While the design hasn’t changed dramatically from the original renders, there have been some notable refinements. For starters, the…

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February 11th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: mobile tech technology video games

ping pong penguin video game marches onto your tv

ping pong penguin video game console weird chinese

Sure, you could be playing ping pong on your Nintendo Wii, but why would you play on a system with a boring rectangular sensor bar you can have a video game console comes with a receiver that looks like a penguin?

Thankfully, placing this penguin on top of your television will not cause it to explode, but it will, let…

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January 19th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: strange + wonderful video games

handheld n64 is awesome, non-ergonomic

diy custom portable handheld n64 nintendo sixtyfree lite-r

The Nintendo Sixtyfree Lite-R: the past of gaming, futurized in handheld form. While playing this shrunken, portable N64 might be a challenge, particularly when it comes to, say, some of the console’s excellent first-person shooters, it certainly looks good.

BenHeck.com forumite SifuF cut away half the size of the original N64 and added a headphone jack to perfect this handheld design.…

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December 30th, 2008 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: hacks + mods technology video games

xbox 360 and ps3 get 8-bit doppelgängers

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Why the heck would you drop $200 to $400 on a brand new console when you could get the same thing for a fraction of the price? Oh yeah, I neglected to mention that these alternate universe clones of the Xbox 360 and PS3 are crappy knock-offs from China – and that they only play 8-bit games.

These cheap-o fakes…

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December 24th, 2008 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: retro video games

ms. pac-man gets portable

Ms. Pac-Man Portable Handheld Videogame Namco

Not to be outdone by her dot-gobbling boyfriend, Ms. Pac-Man has made her way into a custom-built handheld.

Influenced heavily by Sam Thornley’s Pac-Man Mini, modder ela built this portable Ms. Pac-Man Mini video game system using the guts of one of those Jakks Ms. Pac-Man TV Games, and put its circuitry inside the power brick of an old printer.
A couple…

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December 11th, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: hacks + mods mobile tech retro video games

hyperkin sg/fc plays nes and sega genesis games

8-bit and 16-bit worlds collide in this split-personality console which can play games from both the Nintendo NES and the SEGA Genesis consoles.

The Hyperkin Dual Action SG/FC (also sold under the Yobo brand) has two cartridge slots, and can play original carts from both of these classic systems. Just flip the switch between NES and Genesis modes, and you’ll…

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November 4th, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: retro video games

bacteria gives life to mutant mini multi arcade system

Bacteria Mini Multi Arcade System

I have a dream. And that dream is that one day a single portable gaming console can play all of my favorite arcade classics (on a decent sized screen). Thanks to a modder going by the name “Bacteria”, that day is today.

Bacteria’s Mini Multi Arcade system mashes up a bunch of those TV plug ‘n play game systems and…

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September 3rd, 2008 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: hacks + mods mobile tech retro video games

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