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According to Microsoft’s Major Nelson, the Xbox Live Vision Camera demoed at E3 ‘06 that had its pictures leaked onto the internet, will be simultaneously released in the US and Europe on September 19. This isn’t like the 360 release where they were weeks apart, for the first time it is being released on the [...]

There were a few very surprised CheapAssGamer’s, who walked into their local Target or Wal-Mart to dsicover that they were selling DS Lites! Yes, they were actually letting people buy them. Now we don’t know whether they got the release date wrong, or Nintendo has pulled a fast one on us; but it sure got [...]

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I was so amazed when I saw this. I honestly thought it was photoshopped, so I headed over to Dell’s support site, and sure enough, I selected a random Dell laptop (Latitude D610), it was there! This has been reported to work with other Dell models, but it [...]

This is really good news! This will be the first major update the 360 since its launch in November. The update will be rolled out “in about a week” and will include many goodies such as background downloading (finally), Xbox Live Marketplace enhancements and more. There is a short overview below, but follow the link [...]

The BBC reported, that “At a news conference in Osaka, Nintendo senior managing director Yoshihiro Mori said the Wii would sell for 25,000 yen ($220) or lower in Japan and $250 (£133) or lower in the US.” That seems like a good price point to me and it will mean that you could buy [...]

This is one story that will make your feet rumble, seriously it isn’t for the faint hearted!
The stubborn plastic casing around the Microsoft Xbox 360 faceplate seemed to laugh first at the kitchen scissors and then the steak knife that tried to penetrate it. When 14-year-old Daniel Mroue’s attempt to open the thing with a [...]

I have been receiving way too much spam on this blog and I am getting floods and floods of emails from the blog telling me there is a comment in moderation (because I set it to moderate a comment if it has more than 3 links). I am going to disable this, but Akismet has [...]

Over at iFixit (previously called PBFixit) have now expanded their guides, which offer detailed images and notes to take apart various Macs, to include the MacBook. Lots of info on how to take it apart, and on how to replace individual components such as the logic board, the RAM, Optical drive and more.
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This is a cool YouTube (what else?) video that shows all the things that Sony promised for the PS3 in E3 in 2003 and 2005, and then the real specs that were revealed at E3 this year. The video explains it all, but for those who can’t view it I will summarise below:

“PS3 will have [...]

Haha! Nintendo has announced that Europe will get the DS Lite on June 23rd, 12 days after the US. Not only will it be available in white, but also in a cool black (as can be seen above). The price will be €149.99 / £99.99. The US pay £64.55 ($129.99), Europeans (except the UK) pay [...]