Filed under: Gaming
Alright, alright. There’s a few things going on here. First off, Reggie Fils-Aime told Forbes “I will be able to say our licensees ‘get it’ when their very best content is on our platform, and with very few exceptions today, that’s not the case.” That’s a pretty good conversation starter right there. He also lamented the absence of Grand Theft Auto and Spore on his platform, teased community features without spilling anything at all, and for kicks threw us this utterly hopeless word on a price cut: “At some point, it will be time to adjust the [price], but we’re nowhere near that point now.” We’re pretty astonished that a console honcho like Reggie would so summarily insult his third-party partners, but we can’t help but agree — though peep Nintendo Wii Fanboy’s via link down there for an alternate perspective on the matter. To us, the question really lies in the blame game: is Nintendo’s Wii strategy and unique hardware approach to blame, or is everybody else out there too dense to cash in? But really, this is just too wild, too incendiary, too awesome for us to hog all the discussion. Hit up the vaguely-applicable poll option, and then let loose in the comments. We’re all ears!
[Via Nintendo Wii Fanboy]
Reggie thinks third-parties don’t ‘get’ the Wii: discuss originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Hacking the PSP has long been a popular pastime, but the 3000 model has proven a tough nut to crack. Don’t pop open the champagne just yet, though, Sony — Datel has revealed a special battery peripheral called the Lite Blue Tool that boots the handheld console into service mode, where downgrades to earlier, cracked firmwares are possible. Of course, most older PSPs could be downgraded without any additional hardware and you only needed a battery like Pandora if you failed the idiot test and bricked your system, but be patient, pirates totally legit homebrew types — Rome wasn’t burnt in a day. Lite Blue is priced at an affordable $29.99, not bad for an interim solution if homebrew and “backups” are your thing.
PSP 3000 finally, inevitably hacked by Datel’s Lite Blue Tool originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Gaming, HDTV, Home Entertainment
Just hours before the Xbox 360’s newest dashboard update hits tomorrow morning (10:00 a.m. GMT), our friends at Joystiq noticed the list of movies available for Netflix Watch Instantly streaming has suddenly dropped. The culprit? Sony Pictures Home Entertainment subsidiary Columbia Pictures, flicking previously available titles like Superbad, Bad Boys, and We Own the Night over to “Not available on Xbox” status (curiously, SPHE movies are still available to all.) Word from the official Netflix blog cites “the ebb and flow” of what is available on license at any given time causing a few hundred titles to be “temporarily” unavailable on the console, while still open for streaming for other devices, with an eye towards licensing them for the Xbox 360 soon. There’s no way to know what movies won’t work until adding them to your queue, so when you find your Karate Kid trilogy watching time suddenly wide open for more Gears of War 2 or Left 4 Dead action, just remember you have Sony to thank.
[Via Joystiq & Multiplayer]
Sony Pictures celebrates NXE eve by… blocking Xbox 360 Netflix movie streaming originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Continue reading Intel Core i7 desktop roundup: the rest of what’s new
Intel Core i7 desktop roundup: the rest of what’s new originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
[Via Nintendo Wii Fanboy]
Hori’s Wii Classic Controller: if you’re really into autofire originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Anytime we hear the words “incompatible” and “music game” mixed into the same sentence, we typically can’t resist the onset of a bitter beer face. That being true, we can’t say we’re too terribly bummed about this one, particularly since we highly doubt Microsoft’s Lips will have the same following as Rock Band and / or Guitar Hero: World Tour. At any rate, you should probably know that the accelerometer-packin’ Lips microphone will not work with RB nor GH at launch, though creator Keiichi Yano of Inis did confess that compatibility was theoretically possible with future patches. ‘Course, we doubt anyone will spend time on said patches unless Lips moves like a billion copies this winter, but we suppose anything is possible with a snap of the fingers and a pinch of pixie dust.
[Via Joystiq]
Lips mic incompatible with Rock Band / Guitar Hero (at launch, anyway) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Gaming, HDTV, Home Entertainment, Laptops
Man, you just can’t win these days. So Apple offers up an energy-efficient, forward-thinking Mini DisplayPort on its latest MacBook / MacBook Pro, and now users that are still rocking displays sans HDCP-compliant HDMI / DVI ports are up fecal’s creek without a paddle. Apparently select content in the iTunes Store is laced in HDCP, which isn’t all that unexpected in and of itself; the problem comes in when you realize that the new unibody machines don’t offer a VGA / VGA-to-component output, meaning that you have to connect it to an HDCP-compliant display if you want to see anything. We know, one word in particular keeps coming to mind to describe this fiasco: awesome.
Apple iTunes content throwing HDCP flags on new MacBook / MacBook Pro originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Gaming, HDTV, Home Entertainment, Laptops
Man, you just can’t win these days. So Apple offers up an energy-efficient, forward-thinking Mini DisplayPort on its latest MacBook / MacBook Pro, and now users that are still rocking displays sans HDCP-compliant HDMI / DVI ports are up fecal’s creek without a paddle. Apparently select content in the iTunes Store is laced in HDCP, which isn’t all that unexpected in and of itself; the problem comes in when you realize that the new unibody machines don’t offer a VGA / VGA-to-component output, meaning that you have to connect it to an HDCP-compliant display if you want to see anything. We know, one word in particular keeps coming to mind to describe this fiasco: awesome.
Apple iTunes content throwing HDCP flags on new MacBook / MacBook Pro originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Desktops
Now that Intel’s mighty Core i7 is all out in the open, it’s no shock to see a wave of gaming rigs come along boasting said chip. Following in the footsteps of Dell and Gateway comes Alienware with the Area-51 X-58 — a beast that’s a leap above (in terms of power and price) the recently revealed Area-51 750i. Serious gamers can select from the Core i7 920 (2.66GHz), 940 (2.93GHz) or Core i7 Extreme (3.2GHz) along with dual gigabit Ethernet jacks, one or two 2GB ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2s, up to 2TB of HDD space, an optional dual-layer Blu-ray burner and the usual complement of ports. The sky’s the limit once you really start speccing it out, but the ball gets rolling at “just” $1,649.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Update: Alienware also introduced the even more robust ALX X-58, which starts at $3,699. Full release after the break.
Continue reading Alienware gets in the Core i7 game with Area-51 X-58 desktop
Alienware gets in the Core i7 game with Area-51 X-58 desktop originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Gaming, Home Entertainment
Microsoft’s new Xbox Experience dashboard doesn’t officially launch until Wednesday the 19th. But if you signed up for the preview (and who didn’t?) with a valid console ID then it’s available now according to Major Nelson. What’s more, Netflix has confirmed its Xbox 360 launch details: more than 12,000 movies and TV episodes and 300 streaming HD titles. Remember, streaming is free for Netflix members who are also Xbox Live Gold members. The HD video streams will be limited to SD audio, however — multi-channel audio is in the works as are additional HD titles. Now get outta here kid, NXE awaits.
[Via Joystiq]
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Xbox Experience now available to all who signed up, Netflix HD streams too originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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