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Guitar Hero: Smash Hits Track List and Impressions

· News

Last year, Guitar Hero World Tour expanded the seminal franchise to include vocals and drums in addition to guitars and bass. A slew of new songs for the full band have since been released, but what about the tracks from the axe-only days of Guitar Hero? For those hoping to revisit those tracks, Activision has [...]

Hey, buddy, got a light? Cell hhone with built-in Cigarette Lighter

· News


Here’s a phone design that you most likely haven’t seen before – the world’s hottest cigarette lighter cell phone. There probably have been USB lighters before that, but have you ever seen a cell phone with a built-in cigarette lighter? Dubbed the Machismo, you just have to slide open the safety hatch at the back of [...]

Bill would authorize Government to control WWW traffic

· News


A new bill from the U.S Senate aimed at protecting against cyber-threats on critical infrastructure would effectively authorize the President to control the Web traffic in case of an emergency. Some compared it to the kind of control that allowed the President to ground all planes on Sept 11th . The bill is still far [...]

Check Out Fate/Unlimited Codes

· PSP

Check out the latest portable fighter and send your Servant out to capture the Holy Grail.

Type-Moon’s popular Fate/Stay Night series of visual novels has spawned a number of multimedia products, including an anime and the fighting game Fate/Unlimited Codes. Though it has been out in Japanese arcades for by a year and [...]

Xbox 360 | Left 4 Dead 2 Hands-On Preview

· 360

We went hands-on with grade new substance from Valve’s zombie horror sequel.

While Left 4 Dead 2 was one of the biggest hits at that year’s E3, the post-event backlash has nearly threatened to overshadow the game itself. Despite the hostility from its usually loyal fan base, developer Valve decided to let us play even [...]

Ion Assault for the Xbox 360

· 360

What is more exciting than blasting asteroids? Doing it with ion particle weaponry, of course! [...]

Snip! Hacked Xboxes Get Cut Off From Xbox Live

· News, Xbox


In a move that certainly won’t go down well with a lot of public, Microsoft has started to cut off gamers from its Xbox Live service for modifying their consoles to play pirated games. It’s been estimated that as many as 600,000 games will be affected by that move. Microsoft describes it as a “small [...]

120GB Xbox 360 Elite packaging spotted

· 360


Check out the image of a 120GB Xbox 360 Elite package that was captured from a local Walmart. While it will scan for $399 at the moment, folks have spotted retailers’ print flyers including Walmart that quote one Benjamin less at $299, in view of the PS3 Slim’s recent launch and announcement of a similar [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]