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The Blackberry 8300 has been officially announced by RIM and in keeping with the naming that started with the 8100 Pearl, the 8300 is the Curve. Not quite as sexy of a name as the Pearl, however don’t let that mislead you. The Curve is sort of a marriage between… Continue Reading »

Hewlet-Packard is working it’s way to introduce there very own handheld titled Mscape, much like Sony’s PSP and Nintendo’s DS. The idea HP has been toying with is to put a new perspective on the gaming environment, mainly putting your actual living environment as part of the game. For example… Continue Reading »

Here’s more evidence that the line between phone and PDA is blurring even more.  Mobile game developer Gameloft will be making BlackBerry compatible games… or, really, more BlackBerry compatible games. A C-Net article cites the release of the more phone-y BlackBerry Pearl as a motivating factor, though I suspect it’s… Continue Reading »

For those who like to sit on a comfy couch while awkwardly browsing the web (and I don’t mean WebTV, now MSN TV), now you can even lie in bed, under your covers and squint while doing it. Opera Software announced that the Nintendo DS will be the next game… Continue Reading »

A report was released today that’ll be good news for all the gamers out there that have significant others telling them to stop gaming. Besides past studies that have proven that gaming improves hand-eye coordination, a new study has come out saying that playing video games helps improve vision by… Continue Reading »

Since E3 is an industry-only event, one of the best opportunities for gamers to gather in one place each year is the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX).  Now in its fourth year, PAX is more than doubling each year, forcing it to move from humble hotel rooms to a larger downtown… Continue Reading »

There were many gamer-friendly gadgets at this year’s CES but, due to technological limits and simple human exhaustion, we couldn’t quite get them all on Gadgetell. Here a reduced version of the list I compiled for my local CiN Weekly column featuring the better gaming gadgets and announcements from CES… Continue Reading »

Although the new Memory Stick Micro (M2) by SanDisk (co-developed with Sony) is targeted mainly for Sony Ericcson’s mobile phone customers, the M2 can also be used in any device with a Memory Stick PRO Duo slot, thanks to an adapter. Available in 2GB, 1GB and 512MB, the small storage… Continue Reading »

The biggest of Alienware’s bug-eyed systems on display is the Hangar 18: HD Entertainment Center with up to 1.5 terabytes of storage, four DVR tuners and built-in D2Audio amp. It’ll run on Windows Vista and feature an AMD 64 X2 dual-core processor, 2 GB of RAM, slot-loading DVD/CD burner, Bluetooth,… Continue Reading »

Headplay will unveil the final design of their Personal Cinema System at CES. The PCS is a portable visual headset and media center that can connect to various electronics - game systems, DVD players, MP3 players, computers, cell phones and various storage media - for viewing and recording, including exclusive… Continue Reading »