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Xbox 360 slim shipping today for $299; 250GB HDD, built-in Wi-Fi

Jun 14th 2010 3:30PM (Joystiq)
Why would I buy one now for $299 when in 8 months or so I can buy one for $199? Plus I'd get all of today's awesome games at >= 6 months ago pricing!

For reference we have his and her's PS3's due to co-op insensitivity from today's developer's.

Even that's shot due to other OS issues. Offline co-op it is! PSN it ain't :(

Kinda liberating actually. I'm tired of getting nagged about system updates though.

Pandora handheld now shipping: first mass-produced unit unboxed, world somehow survives

May 23rd 2010 3:54PM (Engadget)
As a student this is perfect for me. I've got my spaced repetition learning system(flash cards for the mentat in all of us), working memory training(n-back),programming, wordprocessing, texting, skyping, arduino/xbee hacks, 10 hour battery life, A/V I/O, USB, SD, Android OS, Angstrom OS, bluetooth.

As a plus I don't need to pay someone else the privilege of signing away the next two years so that I can pay yet again for the functionality that I should have had in the beginning. I don't need to sign up for a data plan, pay for text messaging (Imagine going to a restuarant and having to pay for salt as well as pepper), early termination fees etc.

I just need a phone with long battery life, sufficient durability and bluetooth. I can use the wifi on campus. Since the Pandora has a repurposed 800X480 archos screen my phone can look like more of a phone when I'm using it.

It fits my budget because it does more (look at it's functionality), what it does do, it does better (look at its form factor and chipsets), finally its plain cheaper(no $678 cost if you buy it without a 2 year contract and no $2500-3000 cost if you DO!).

But yeah. Go ahead and continue to hate. Haters gonna hate anyway.

Killzone 3 revealed in next GamePro -- and it's 3-D

May 21st 2010 10:37PM (Joystiq)
Great times!

If you look around you should be able to find a Samsung or Mitsubishi 3d ready tv for 600-800 dollars easy.

This is great news for developers as Sony is going to ease up on some of the access restrictions in devtools for the PS3.

I expect to hear interesting news about scaling and refresh rates at E3.

Hands-on: PlayStation Eye's Kung-Fu Live

May 17th 2010 8:29PM (Joystiq)
Whippersnappers snappin' whips.

Behold!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au4d5anfjnA

Joyswag: ModNation Racers (and a PSP!)

May 15th 2010 1:37PM (Joystiq)
Your basic pinched oval.

HP Envy 14 and 17 officially official, Envy 13 slowly waves goodbye

May 13th 2010 6:05PM (Engadget)
HPackintosh Fall 2010.
I'm getting the 14.

Best Buy taps Future US for new game mag: @Gamer

May 12th 2010 5:36PM (Joystiq)
@gamer is the gamist name I've ever heard.

Review: Lost Planet 2

May 12th 2010 4:30PM (Joystiq)
The first thing we can do as consumers is stop acknowledging these as reviews.

Instead of "crappy review", we could say "typical 'Stiq-ing". Instead of rating the Stiq-ing on a point scale we could use an hour based one. As in the hours played before writing the review. So for this Stiq-ing I give it about a 2.5 or so.

I give Kotaku a 4.5 because although the author played through it "nearly one and a half times" on two different consoles no less (AND WITH COOP) the online portion wasn't given much more thought than what one attributes to an after thought.

That being said, I at least get the impression that he COMPLETED THE GAME at least ONCE.
[snip/quote]
I ended up playing through Lost Planet 2 nearly one and a half times. First playing through more than a third of the game with my son cooperatively using final, but not retail code, on the Xbox 360. Then finishing the campaign completely on the PlayStation 3 on my own. It's a fun game, but it's also a frustrating one. The minor issues taken alone don't seem so bad, but in a few chapters they manage to pile up in such away as to nearly destroy the experience. That's unfortunate, because plenty of what makes Lost Planet 2 so much fun, the grappling and gunning, the vital suits, can't be found in very many shooters. [ end snip/quote]

Reviews. Serious business.

Sony slapped with two more class-action suits over Other OS removal

May 11th 2010 5:12PM (Joystiq)
Can't help you if you don't understand the difference between the removal of bought and paid for features as opposed to the addition of newer free features.

Imagine that you bought a sportscar car and the manufacturer came to your house and without asking installed heated seats, or whatever thing that would personally make the car more awesome to you. Would you mind?

Now what if they installed heated seats, in car telephony but REMOVED your radio with the free satellite service and HD radio features that helped you pull the trigger on that brand new top of the line sportscar?

Wait. I know the answer. 'Well if you needed the radio for Audio Purposes you should have just bought a dedicated radio. It probably would have saved you money anyway. Besides, true car drivers use their cars for driving. Not *finger quotes* audio purposes. Get a bicycle and an ipod if you can't deal with the mere loss of a radio. Leave car drivin' to car drivers and leave those other secondary and tertiary comforts for the car posers.'

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