If you’ve been looking for a reason to replace your aging device with something a tad more contemporary, your local pawnshop GameStop is happy to oblige. According to Gadget Experts, the games retailer is looking to bolster its Android offerings with…
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GameStop to offer Android tablet and smartphone trade-ins, give you another excuse to upgrade
April 29th, 2012
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NVIDIA unleashes GeForce GTX 690 graphics card, loads it with dual Kepler GPUs, charges $1k
April 29th, 2012
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Would you look at that? NVIDIA hinted it would be coming today, and it looks like the tease is living up to the hype. The company stormed into the weekend at its Shanghai Game Festival by unleashing its latest offering, the GeForce GTX 690 — and oh y…
Origin PC joins the 11-inch, rebadged gaming laptop party, outs the EON 11-S
April 29th, 2012
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Last week may have drawn to a close, but the march of Clevo news continues. On the heels of Maingear announcing an 11-inch gaming notebook, Origin PC is throwing its own ultraportable into the ring: the EON 11-S. Though this is a new model for the co…
Lenovo’s Eedoo CT510 motion gaming console to finally hit China, wants your $600
April 28th, 2012
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Product delays that push back release dates a full year are never good. What’s worse? When that product finally does launch and even someone inside the company votes against it. That’s exactly what’s going down with the CT510 GameBox, the Eedoo Kinec…
Lenovo’s Eedoo CT510 motion gaming console to finally hit China, wants your $600
April 28th, 2012
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Product delays that push back release dates a full year are never good. What’s worse? When that product finally does launch and even someone inside the company votes against it. That’s exactly what’s going down with the CT510 GameBox, the Eedoo Kinec…
AMD announces Radeon HD 7000M series with Enduro graphics-switching technology
April 24th, 2012
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AMD kicked off 2012 by refreshing its desktop graphics, and now it’s back, giving its mobile GPUs the same treatment. The company just announced its third generation of DirectX 11 mobile chips, the Radeon HD 7000 family. All told, the collection incl…
NVIDIA: there’s nothing ‘Ultra’ about Ivy Bridge Ultrabooks unless you add Kepler
April 23rd, 2012
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This is a vaguely awkward message for NVIDIA to be putting out. On one hand, the company is best buddies with Intel and is hoping to see its next-gen GPUs bundled with a large portion of the Ivy Bridge notebooks that will ship this year. But to reach…
First ASUS G55VW gaming laptop configuration spotted and priced
April 21st, 2012
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ASUS’s G-series has been warming the laps of gamers for a while, whether it’s the smart G74 or the elder statesman G73JH. The newest splinter of the G-team, however, is the G55 line. Right now, it’s the G55VW-DS71 that’s just had its specifications s…
NVIDIA projects mobile SoC GPU performance to surpass Xbox 360 by 2014
April 20th, 2012
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Granted, we hope to see a new Xbox before 2014, but if NVIDIA has its way, mobile devices will have enough graphical prowess to surpass the current generation of gaming consoles by that time. The company brought the smackdown today with a chart that …
NVIDIA projects mobile SoC GPU performance to surpass Xbox 360 by 2014
April 20th, 2012
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Granted, we hope to see a new Xbox before 2014, but if NVIDIA has its way, mobile devices will have enough graphical prowess to surpass the current generation of gaming consoles by that time. The company brought the smackdown today with a chart that …
N-Control’s Avenger goes Elite, keeps classic good looks
April 20th, 2012
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Competitive gamers are always looking for a way to sharpen their edge, but few solutions provide leverage like the N-Control Avenger, a controller attachment known for rigging gamepads with actual levers. This quirky clamshell impressed us last year …
N-Control’s Avenger goes Elite, keeps classic good looks
April 20th, 2012
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Competitive gamers are always looking for a way to sharpen their edge, but few solutions provide leverage like the N-Control Avenger, a controller attachment known for rigging gamepads with actual levers. This quirky clamshell impressed us last year …
Killer Wireless-N 1202 and E2200 Ethernet controller launch, aim to squash your ping times
April 19th, 2012
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Killer Technology — formerly known as Bigfoot Networks — has certainly come a long way from its days as a scrappy startup, and now the outfit’s taking one more step towards ping domination with the introduction of two new products. Qualcomm Atheros …
Alienware refreshes M14x, M17x and M18x with new graphics, same old processors
April 19th, 2012
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Sure, they may look the same, but Alienware’s decided to give what’s going on inside its glowing gaming laptops a thorough refresh. Starting with graphics support, the 2012 update of the M14x, M17x and M18x will all be able to handle NVIDIA’s 600 ser…
Facebook for PS Vita adds photo uploading, support for all system languages
April 14th, 2012
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If you were disappointed with the Facebook app for the Vita due to not being able to share your Unit 13 high score screen grabs, then maybe it’s time to reconsider. Version 1.01 just landed, and despite sounding like the tiniest incremental increase, …
Valve employee spills the hardware beans: wearable computers, ahoy
April 14th, 2012
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When Michael Abrash started working for Valve, he expected the higher-ups to hand him a pile of work and tell him to hop to it. They didn’t. Instead, he was told to figure out the most valuable thing he could do for the company, and then do it. So, Ab…
Valve job posting reveals plans for homegrown hardware, promises it won’t suck
April 13th, 2012
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Rumors fluttering about Valve’s entry into the hardware market just got a little less salty. According to the outfit’s own jobs page, it’s prepping to offer consumers “whole new gaming experiences.” A call for an experienced electronics engineer says …
Skyrim gets Kinect integration on Xbox, over 200 voice commands in tow (video)
April 12th, 2012
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Okay, we have some excellent and some disappointing Skyrim tidbits to share. The good news being that bestseller The Elder Scrolls V is finally adding (real) support for Microsoft’s Kinect, but unfortunately, it’s coming exclusively to the Xbox conso…
Kaz Hirai reveals ‘One Sony’ turnaround strategy, will cut 10,000 jobs
April 12th, 2012
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Freshly minted Sony CEO Kaz Hirai has revealed his plan to turn around Sony’s fortunes and as rumored, it includes significant cuts. Two days ago, the company revised its projections for the 2011 fiscal year to reflect a $6.4 billion loss. The One Son…
