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Red Faction: Guerrilla for PC

· PC

We recently took a quick look at the PC version of Red Faction: Guerrilla , a physics-heavy console action game. The PC version of the game has been in development for about a year at Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Reactor Zero and will reach on the PC fully intact, with every last bit of substance from [...]

Wii | Dead Space Extraction Updated Impressions

· News, Wii

Dead Space Extraction is a fresh take on last year’s premier sci-fi survival horror offering, as we found out in EA’s first demo.

Even though Dead Space didn’t do as well as publisher EA might have hoped, the amount of investment in comics, DVDs and merchandise meant that it was always planned as an ongoing [...]

Nintendo teasing new Tingle

· News

It seems The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks and the Wii game announced at Shigeru Miyamoto’s E3 roundtable aren’t the only new Zelda projects in Nintendo’s production pipeline. The company recently launched a new teaser site for another game starring Tingle, the insatiably greedy tights-wearing fairy from Majora’s Mask and The Wind Waker.

Currently, the Flash-based [...]

Sigo S40 and S60 portable media players

· News, Tech


Sigo has rolled out a couple of portable media players – the S40 and S60, where both models are able to offer full High Definition video playback support (1080p) as well as 1080p HDMI output. The Sigo S40 will come with a 4.3″ LCD display, while the S60 will benefit from a larger 5″ screen. [...]

Maximum PSP Go Processor 44% Faster Than The PSP

· News


We knew that the PSP Go was faster than the PSP-3000, but “by how much” was still a subject of speculation. It is not anymore as an FCC filing makes the PSP Go speed official. With a 480Mhz frequency, it is 44% faster than the previous 333Mhz PSP chip.
At first, most developers will form [...]

Burnout Paradise: Hands-On With Big Surf Island DLC

· News


The glut of downloadable subject matter continues with Burnout Paradise . Hot on the heels of last month’s Cops and Robbers release, Criterion Games has unveiled its latest DLC pack: Big Surf Island. Due for release later that summer, Big Surf Island is a brand-new chunk of real estate for you to zip around like [...]

PC | signal of Juarez: Bound in Blood Updated Hands-On

· PC

We strap on our cowboy boots for a final look at Techland’s gritty Wild West shooter.

Fans of films like The Good, the poor and the Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars will know that the Wild West was a godforsaken place, full of burlesque houses, high-noon shoot-outs, and whisky–served in a dirty glass, of [...]

Firefox 3.5 Portable Is Available

· News


You might have upgraded your home Firefox to version 3.5, but whether your IT folks at work are pro World Wide Web Explorer, or whether you’re using a computer that’s not yours, you can still carry Firefox 3.5 Portable with you. that version is available now and can be installed on a USB key. Let [...]

DS | Green DS Lite bundle planted May 3

· News

Nintendo’s money-minting handheld picks up apt new hue; packaged with Personal Trainer: Cooking, carrying case next month.

The Nintendo DSi launched to impressive demand earlier that month, selling 600,000 units total in North America and Europe during its first two days. However, even with that impressive demand for the DS’s latest hardware revision, Nintendo still [...]

Fully implantable hearing aid

· News


Hearing aids have certainly come a lengthy way from being an embarassment initially for its wearers to something that is deemed normal and essential in that day and age for folks suffering from hearing loss. Well, brains of that generation has further shrunk the hearing aid to manufacture it fully implantable, with the FDA’s Ear, [...]