OCZ has announced brand new Core Series V2 SSDs. The new drives follow the release a little over a month ago of OCZ’s original Core Series SSDs. The new drive have increase read and write speeds and are now available in four different sizes instead of three.
The SSDs are going to be available in 30GB, 60GB, 120GB, and 250GB capacities, and read speeds for the drives have been increased to 170MB per second while write speeds are at 98MB/sec.
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EA games has reportedly refused to honor a warranty request for an Irish Rock Band customer. The customer who had a faulty pedal for his drum was told that he would have to have a replacement part shipped to a US or UK address if he wanted a replacement.
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We’re finding out more details about the Sony DMX-WL1t, the companies first WHDI device to transmit video wirelessly in your home. The device first showed up in January at CES, and is making another appearance now, but now with more details.
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NVIDIA has begun shipping out beta Open GL 3.0 graphics drivers. NVIDIA has played a huge role in creating the API for the 3D graphics drivers which got a major library reworking with this release. The beta version is designed to give software developers a look at the new drivers so they can better create software that uses 3.0 to its full potential.
The beta Open GL 3.0 code works on both laptop and desktops and supports GeForce 8000 series cards. The Open GL specification for cards “provides software developers a broad set of programmable 3D and 2D graphics rendering, visualization, and hardware acceleration functions, allowing a program to run on a wide variety of hardware platforms.”
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The Wii is one gaming system that doesn’t have a portable version available. Now you can take your Wii along with you on your travels with this portable 16:9 screen. The screen attaches to the Wii for game play while you’re on the go.
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If you’ve run into trouble with your Xbox 360 overheating, then the PC-XBO1 chassis from Lian Li may be a great solution for you. The chassis was specifically designed for the X360 and promises to keep your system cool.
The $150 chassis has a 120mm fan to constantly cool your system and promises “silent, vibration-free” gaming as well as keeping your system cool. Putting your Xbox 360 in the chassis will undoubtedly take a little effort, so it’s not a great solution for people who aren’t tech savvy.
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We now know a lot more about the Astro A40 gaming headset thanks to a video posted yesterday. In the video Brett Lovelady, the founder of Astro talks about what we can expect from the headset when it’s released.
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After pictures of a so-called Wii hard drive surfaced on the web yesterday morning, Nintendo has gone of the record as saying “We have not announced or revealed any hard drive.” and that talk of a hard drive for the Wii is nothing but “rumor and speculation.”
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The 80GB Playstation 3 finally has a release date and pricing for Australia. The gaming system will hit Australian store shelves this month right alongside the US.
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Rumor has it we won’t see Rock Band 2 for the Xbox 360 until October 19th. The game was originally slated to be released on September 14th. The original plan was to release the Rock Band 2 bundle on the 14th, and then the stand-alone game a month later on October 19th.
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Plans for the new PSP-3001 have been revealed by an FCC filing for the device made by Sony this week. Sony requested confidentiality when filing the papers but we did learn a few tidbits about the device.
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What do you think about a PSP with a touch screen? How about with a touch screen and increased battery life? One engineer has plans to make it happen, and has created a website dedicated toward the project and has posted a video of his progress thus far.
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