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This is what everyone has been waiting for, video on your iPod. The video plays nearly seamlessly, on colour and black and white iPods, while the sound is a bit more jerky. But knowing the iPodLinux project, they will have that fixed in no-time. Currently you have to install Linux onto your iPod, which may [...]

IGN has created a mockup of what it thinks the normal controller shell adaptor for the Revolution controller will look like. Nintendo has confirmed two controller adaptors, one of which is the analog trigger controller. The other is an adaptor to allow more conservative gamers to play with normal two handed controllers. Nintendo hasn’t showed [...]

It hasn’t even been 24 hours since the announcement of the Revolution and its controller, yet somebody has already created an image of what they think a skin should look like for the controller. If you like retro and the NES, you will love this controller. I think it looks pretty cool, but I wouldn’t [...]

Xbox 360 News has posted this video that shows people in China making and testing out the new Xbox 360’s getting ready for the lauch date, Dec 2nd (for the UK). “Now this is pretty cool. A video of the assembly line production of the Xbox 360, that’s right, there are people working hard at [...]

My first thought, it is really white, just like the Xbox 360 and Apple’s iPod’s. Maybe everyone is starting to like white. I think it looks really cool. The main features are going to include 3D pointing, via internal sensors that pick up the directionality of the controller, similarly, it will also be tilt sensitive. [...]

When I first saw this I thought, it has to be a fake. But no, the Nintendo Revolution controller is finally here, in reality. It has two parts, with a thumb controlled analog stick in one hand and a remote control-looking button controller in the other. The analog stick is actually a detachable part of [...]

It looks like if you access our site from Internet Explorer, and you click on each individual post link, then it will only show up a ‘Leave a Reply’ form. This happens for IE on Windows. There are no problems with Firefox on Windows and Safari, Firefox, Camino or IE on Mac. We are currently [...]

Microsoft has officially announced the launch date for the Xbox 360 in Japan, the US, and the UK. The launch dates are, as follows:

North America - Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Europe - Friday, December 2, 2005
Japan - Saturday, December 10, 2005

Manufacturing of the Xbox 360 has begun, with millions of final units being planned to ship [...]

Yet another copy of a popular gaming console. There are so many of these, and there will probably be another one as well. This looks remarkably like the DS, and I think is a straight copy, with little changes made. Why do people even attempt to make these? More pictures below.

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Now you know how much I love Apple, and how Microsoft seems to copy them a lot (OS X Aqua feaures seem to appear in Vista) here is another moan. Microsoft has revealed their new Office 12 user interface. As you can see from the image above the title bar and the menus have the [...]