Even after all this time Sony’s hand-held wand bent on bringing some of that interactive Wii game play to the PS3 still doesn’t have a name. Announced at E3 , Sony as recently as January 20th was still calling its PS3 Motion Controller, well, “Motion Controller” in its official communications with a footnote that the…

The Wii may not be the console of choice for most fighting game fans, but it is starting to earn a bit more respect with the release of Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom and, just as importantly Mad Catz’s new Arcade FightStick to go along with it. The best news, however, is that like Mad Catz’s…

Here’s an interesting one. Siliconera has dug up what it claims to be a Japanese trademark for the term ” Zii ,” and contrary to what you may expect, the application wasn’t filed by Creative . We double checked the database, and sure enough, the paperwork went through on October 30th — which almost certainly …

Seems like we just can’t go a week without some corporate power plays or mudslinging making our pages. Back in October, Datel promised it would “remedy” the situation created by Microsoft’s forthcoming (now present) Dashboard update locking out its higher capacity memory modules. The accessory company was the first (and only) third-party …

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that most epic triumph of human engineering and physics research has finally taken place, and strangely enough our planet’s still in one piece too. The search for the Higgs boson particle resumed yesterday, somewhere under the Franco-Swiss border, with the CERN research team successfully executing what the…

There’s no question about it, brands are on Facebook. From small businesses to the biggest corporate names, chances are that if there’s a consumer-facing product, there’s a Facebook Page to go with it. The tools that Facebook provides brand managers and Page admins is rather limited. When you combine …

In at least a few time zones, today is 09/09/09. Aside from being the same day that Apple holds a keynote on the left coast, Leica launches something and The Beatles: Rock Band encourages gamers everywhere to call in sick, today also marks the ten year anniversary of Sega’s iconic Dreamcast…

See that? That’s a $3,200 CD player , which will be impossible to justify for pretty much anyone not featured on Joan Rivers’ newest TV show. Designed and produced by Grant Fidelity, the CD-1000 Impression II packs a high-end Sanyo CD drive, tube analog output, tube headphone amplifier and a rather basic display…

The fine folks at GameSpot called around in San Francisco to find that many of their local GameStops and Best Buys have been selling the PS3 Slim, but some have already sold out of their first shipments. Our own calls to a few New York GameStops showed that they’d sold out of their …

Since we first heard about Florida going Slim with its PS3s, we’ve gotten numerous reports abut the console showing up on retail shelves in Best Buys and GameStops across these 48 contiguous states. We’ve also heard whispers that brick-and-mortar Sony Style locations are getting shipments and will be unleashing…