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DSi Game Makes Creates True 3D Illusion Using Face Tracking
Forget 3D on an IMAX screen. If you want True 3D, small IS better. Rittai Kakushi e Attakoreda uses the front camera on the DSi to track the location of your face and create a stereoscopic 3D view that is relative to where you would be looking if your DS was a diorama box.
Watch this [...]
Is the iPhone A Serious Gaming System?
I tend to agree with this post on CrunchGear about the iPhone being a major player in the gaming market. Such is the life of a “jack-of-all-trades, master of none” type of device. It’s a great overall device, but it doesn’t have a killer app.
Is it a great phone? And by phone I mean [...]
Revival… no. More like survival.
Hey folks! It’s time for my annual “ima gonna do better” post. As you all know and adore, I’m sure, I make a post about how I’d like to improve Portagame, increase posts, cover more topics, etc. Yup, all that. Here. Now.
And it’s all really gonna happen this time! Really!
Ok. I don’t believe it either. [...]
DEALS: Rock Box Storage Ottoman at Amazon
Psst. I know it’s Saturday night and we all have lives…wait, no we don’t, we’re gamers. Amazon must have known this when they created this Gold Box deal. The Rock Box Ottoman that pops your Rock Band drum-set out like a jack-in-the-box, and happens to store your Rock Band instruments as well, is on sale.
[Amazon [...]
Hardcore Gamer Magazine Up for Sale
Man, I have all sorts of mixed feelings about this. Hardcore Gamer has placed their entire business, websites and printed mag, for sale on ebay with a starting bid of $42,000.
If I only had $42,000…
But honestly, is that the kind of shakeout that video game journalism is going through right now? A respected magazine with [...]
Gameboy Pocket Mod [It's Never Too Late]
Bringing life, and light, back to the Gameboy Pocket, photobucket user TehBibin shows us that a good mod for a good system is sometimes worth the wait. The Gameboy Pocket is a fond memory for most handheld geeks as it was the first time Nintendo reintroduced the GB with a smaller, more sleek form-factor. The [...]
Oppo Muse is Chinese MP3 Player with D-Pad, Games Emulator
We may have Apple, but the Chinese have something that we don’t: the Oppo line of MP3 players and PMPs. Oppo makes some very sexy players that are a class of their own. At the top of that class is the Oppo MUSE PMP.
The MUSE is a 4GB media player, with a swivel screen and [...]
X-Play’s Handheld Game of the Year 2008
Congratulations to developers of The World Ends With You for the DS ($29.99 @ amazon). They conquered the much respected X-Play’s Best of 2008: Best Handheld Game.
Runners up:
Chrono Trigger DS ($36.99 @ amazon)
God of War PSP ($36.99 @ amazon)
Patapon PSP ($19.99 @ amazon)
Professor Layton DS ($29.99 @ amazon)
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This Year’s Hottest Christmas Toy is the Nintendo DSi
Contrary to what you have heard, the hottest toy for gamers this year is NOT the Wii Fit. Nor is it the PS3 or those YALENDS (Yet Another Limited Edition Nintendo DS) that were released for black friday.
No, this years hottest game system is the Nintendo DSi. If you own the DSi, I guarantee you [...]
PSP 3000
I have yet to mention the PSP 3000 for a couple of reasons. 1) It isn’t that big of a deal. And 2) It isn’t that big of a deal.
What the PSP 3000 does bring is a brighter and more crisp screen, an onboard microphone, a PS button (for other-than-Sony-fanboys, think of this as the [...]
