Hot on the heels of FYE’s apparent PS3 price cuts comes a prominent new banner on Kmart’s website confirming “The rumors are reality”. According to the retailer, there’s a “new low price and a new exciting Playstation 3″; it seems their banner designer is yet to alert their pricing team to that fact, though, as clicking through takes you to the existing, non-discounted prices.
Rumors of the imminent PS3 Slim continue, with the latest fuel for the speculative fire being new promotional material talking up price cuts for the existing console at FYE. A store employee sent images of the posters in to Kotaku, with the cuts billed as a “new low price” rather than a “sale”. The 80GB PlayStation 3 is down $100 to $299.99, while the 160GB drops to $399.99.
If you just can’t live without the latest in Wii accessories, you’ll be pleased to know the Wii Steering Wheel II has been announced and is available now for avid Wii racing game lovers and those that just need each and every remote holder.
Right now, Palm’s Pre isn’t quite a gaming powerhouse. Actually, it’s not at all, and for a lot of people, that’s something they wish would be alleviated, and soon. When a phone like the Pre releases in the market against the likes of the iPhone, it’s almost essential that the Pre’s media abilities come shining through at some point. And it looks like Palm is setting up to show that the Pre is capable of gaming, too. Or, something pretty close.
According to information supplied to Eurogamer, would-be Xbox 360 buyers in the UK may have to budget a little more for their gaming fix. Chain retailer Argos had updated their listing of the Xbox 360 60GB model to say “We are very sorry, but Microsoft have discontinued this line”, since removed, while an unnamed smaller retailer had come forward to corroborate the discontinuation as well as suggest that the Xbox 360 Arcade bundle will in fact be seeing a price increase in the UK.
Logitech have outed their latest Racing Wheel, the G27, and it looks to be the ideal way to make your desk feel like a car. Intended for PS2, PS3 and PC gamers, the G27 set consists of the steering wheel – with force-feedback, real leather and stainless steel, paddle shifters and programmable LEDs – plus a three pedal set and a separate shifter with eight buttons and a D-pad.
The end of the week is here again and here we go with a rundown of some of the coolest stories we have seen this week. Monday marked the day the Asus Eee PC 1101HA went on sale in America. The rig is a netbook in name only; the beastie is expensive at about $430. The same day Gigabyte quietly unveiled the T1028X convertible touchscreen netbook. The device has a screen resolution of 1366 x 768 and other than the screen, the rest of the machine is typical netbook fare.
We may be feeling sour about the PSP Go’s hardware, but its software may end up putting a smile on our faces. According to Pocket Gamer, the upcoming handheld’s downloadable PlayStation Network (PSN) games will be priced at €1, €2 and €5 apiece ($1-$7), bringing them to the level of titles from Apple’s App Store for the iPod touch and iPhone. They also claim that Sony have been actively courting iPhone developers, in the hope that they will port their existing titles over to the PSP Go.
Normally we look at these excellent Instructables and move on, but if there was ever one to lever us off our jaded blogger behinds then it would be this DIY air hockey table. The handiwork of oldschoolstructure, it consists of a couple of sheets of chipboard, 4,608 holes and a second-hand leaf blower.
Threatening or generally thumbing your nose at Sony seems to be an increasingly common pastime for developers, as the latest to climb on board is perennial PS3 cynic Gabe Newell of Valve. Interviewed for GameTrailers TV, Newell was asked by host Geoff Keighley whether the studio was currently working on PS3 title development, only to shoot the possibility down in no uncertain terms.
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