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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 [...]

After some serious rumour going around that Apple will anounce the MacBook on Tuesday of last week, some people were pretty annoyed that they haven’t yet released it. But now they finally have! You can see I’m pretty excited about it, and one of the main reasons is because it is available in black (and [...]

So more speculation has arisen after it became clear that the ‘cheaper’ PS3 (the $499 one) will not have WiFi, a card reader or HDMI. This time Games Radar say that the $499 PS3 will not have wireless controllers, and instead ship with boring de facto standard controller, much like the core 360 system. They [...]

Engadget got busy with their hands and tested out the Wii controller quite extensively. They explained that the controller was light, yet very ergonomic and felt comfortable to hold and play with. The controller allows a lot of leverage for the trigger button, and the ‘a’ and ‘b’ buttons, so that it was easy to [...]

Lots of people have been wondering if there will be a ’shell’ for the Wii remote so that you can use it as a gun, like in arcade games or controllers for PS2s and Xboxs. At the Nintendo booth, at E3, there is a prototype for a Zapper gun (it is actually labelled as Zapper) [...]

The remote control image that was shown off by Nintendo a while ago has now changed a bit. A few things have been modifed, like the addition of the Wii logo on the remote. Gamespot got their hands on the remote and said “During our play session Nintendo reps noted that the controller we were [...]

During Microsoft’s E3 press event, they showed off the Xbox Live Camera (called the Vision Camera), the Racing Wheel and the wireless headset. Engadget checked them out and took lots of photos, however they couldn’t get their hands on them because of the obvious sign “Do Not Touch’. But did that stop them, no! They [...]

This image has been found on Nintendo’s website (link).
Our sources have confirmed to us that this is definitely real, however several questions still remain - why is there a cable, and does the remote simply click onto the bottom of the unit? Or is it now a stand alone unit?
This is certainly very interesting, and [...]

Courtesy of Engadget and Joystiq for the picture
The whole event was solely based around the Wii (with some DS stuff), Nintendo’s Miyamoto, Reggie and Iwata were up on stage each giving their part of the Wii. They gave game demos, info about the Wii and the games coming out for it. I’ll run over the [...]

And what did they make of it? Well at first they thought that being the good old dual shock controller that it will be really nice to hold and use, but that isn’t true. At first hand the controller seemed light, too light, so it made it feel quite cheap, like the 3rd party ones [...]