Category Archives: hardware

Sony has detailed the God of War: Ascension bundles to be made available in Europe a bit more, which means if you don’t want a white PS3 with a Gold Controller, you can get the console in black instead. White shows a lot of smudges, well, it does in my animal filled house. Anyway, it’s nice to have options, and you can also pick up the Gold DualShock Controller separately. All console bundles come with a 500GB system. Hit up the links for more information. Thanks, CyberMarco.

Head mounted display Oculus Rift has been redesigned for the comfort of those who wear glasses.

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PlayJam’s GameStick has announced its Kickstarter project has closed, with the portable games console raising $647,658 – 648% above its initial $100,000 goal.

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Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has said the console makers has plans to expand developer capabilities in future hardware with tech such as Unity, JavaScript and HTML5.

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DmC Devil May Cry debuted at number one on the Media Create charts last week, knocking Animal Crossing : New Leaf down a notch.

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A group of former AMD employees have been accused of stealing information and passing it onto rival company Nvidia.

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Another day, another prediction concerning the next-gen console launch announcements. This time it’s print publication Game Informer, which believes we’ll see “special Apple-style press conferences” held by Sony and Microsoft around GDC in March.

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Microsoft’s European VP Phil Harrison has offered his opinion on the Piston and Shield PC-consoles touted recently by Valve and Nvidia at CES 2013.

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Steam was “broken” without access to users’ living rooms, according to Valve product designer Greg Coomer, which lead the developer to create Big Picture.

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PlayJam has announced new stretch goals for its GameStick Kickstarter campaign.

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Titles for Nintendo systems dominated the Media Create’s latest sales chat, with Animal Crossing: New Lead stilling comfortable on top. There were no new releases for the period. 3DS LL and 3DS were still the number one and the number two best selling systems for the week as well, which helped push the handheld’s unit sales past the 10 million sold mark in the region. Full sales figures below.

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Razer has launched its Edge gaming tablet, formerly known as Project Fiona.

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Enterbrain has announced via its latest issue of Famitsu, that Nintendo 3DS sold 10,068,192 units in Japan as of January 6, 2013. The handheld has been available in the region for 98 weeks, and is the top-seller on the Media Create and Enterbrain hardware charts every week. You can look over the handheld’s sales progress through the chart below, courtesy of NeoGAF. Thanks, Nintendo Life.

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GameStop posted a 4.6% drop in sales for the nine weeks ending December 29, with global sales reaching $2.88 billion. Year-over-year sales declined 4.4 %, with US sales down 3.5% over the year prior, with international sales falling 6.4%. Hardware sales were down by 2.7% despite Wii U being around for the holidays and moving 320,000 units. New software sales fell 5.1%, while pre-owned software fell by 15.6%, a figure GameStop blamed on limited inventory “due to fewer new titles released throughout 2012 and less promotional activity negatively impacted sales compared to last year”. Digital sales, however, were up 40% year-over-year, and the firm’s global e-commerce sales were up 20.5%. Thanks, MCV.

Project Shield, Nvidia’s Tegra 4-powered, Android-based portable console announced at CES 2013 yesterday, has already attracted interest and praise from some big names.

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Disney may have decided to focus on mobile and social games instead of console and PC release, but that hasn’t stopped the firm from filing a patent for a handheld gaming device.

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GameStick, PlayJam’s portable Android games product, has reached its Kickstarter goal within 24-hours. The Android-based system has 1,091 backers who have pledged $102,529 toward its $100,000 goal – and there’s still another 28 days left on the project. Other than a sincere thank you from the developers, as of press time new stretch goals haven’t been announced, so keep an eye on the Kickstarter page for more information.

According to Valve engineer Michael Abrash, virtual reality gaming is up against a serious hardware limitation, and need a breakthrough moment before it can ever come into its own.

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A couple new videos for Agni’s Philosophy, Square’s Luminous engine tech demo, have popped up. The videos show various changes being implemented to the characters’ appearances. Square Enix first demonstrated the tech at an after-hours E3 2012 event. Have a watch below via AGB. Thanks, manamana.

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Those who like keeping up with tech and how other users are making the most of it, can have a look at the latest Steam Hardware survey results for November below.

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