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Infinite Bits: Miami’s First Video Game Convention
2:20AM Mike Fahey | Next weekend in Miami you can enjoy live music, tournaments, world record competitions, special guests, a costume contest and a video game museum at Infinite Bits, South Florida’s “first major video game convention”. More »
Culture
Make Your Own Modded Console Handhelds
10:30PM Luke Plunkett | Console modder Ben Heckendorn has made quite a name for himself chopping machines apart and making them smaller, sleeker, more portable. Now you can do as he does. More »
Culture
If Only There Were More Of These Commodore 64 Laptops
10:30PM Luke Plunkett | Heeeeyyyy. It’s Ben Heckendorn, console modder extraordinaire. What ya got for us this week, Ben? A Commodore 64 laptop? Oh yes. More »
Ben Heck’s New Mod: The ‘Atari 3600′ Stick
2:00AM Owen Good | Everyone’s first big complaint with this — a 360 controller stuffed into a 2600’s casing — is the lack of a second analogue joystick. So it’s not your new Halo stick. But Braid? Sure. More »
Ben Heck’s Xbox 360 Laptop v2.0
5:30PM Luke Plunkett | Oh Ben Heck. What can’t you do? I ask because there are so many things you can do. Like making desirable console laptops. More »
Inside The 60GB 360: Old CPU, New Memory Chips
12:20PM Luke Plunkett | The new Xbox 360 has a 60GB HDD, which is new, but what about the rest of the console? Anything new inside the unit? Hacker extraordinaire Ben Heck got hold of one and busted it open like a naughty coconut to find out. What he found was that the new console has the same GPU, same 65nm CPU and same heatsink as we’ve been seeing for a while now, so don’t expect any heat/noise improvements on that front (at least for the next few months), though he did notice that some of the console’s memory chips have been moved from the bottom of the board, which should ease up on heating in that part of the 360. Other than that…yeah, it’s a 360, with 40 extra GB. Inside a 60 gig Xbox 360 [Ben Heck] More »Ben Heck’s One-Handed Controller Now On Sale
1:20AM Mike Fahey | First announced back in October of last year, the Access Game Controller designed by technical wizard Ben Heckendorn for disabled gamers is finally ready for sale via eDimensional’s website. The device, listed for use with the PlayStation 2, PS3, and PC, allows one-handed gamers modify the controller as they see fit via a series of circular modules containing face buttons, shoulder buttons, analogue sticks and a d-pad. The controller can be preordered right now for $US 129.95, with a shipping target of 8-10 weeks. A portion of all proceeds goes towards Children’s Hospital and Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. New Access Controller Designed by Ben Heck [eDimensional's Product Page] More »
Ben Heck’s Guitar Hero Pedal
6:30PM Luke Plunkett | What, Ben Heck, coming up with excellent, crafty, gaming-related things? You don’t say. This is his latest contraption, a heavy-duty pedal designed to work with Guitar Hero to give it that extra dash of authenticity. After Heck did some one-handed GH controllers for the Games for Health conference, Activision decided to send him some guitars for further experimentation, and these are what he came up with. Although primarily designed to allow someone with the use of only one hand to play Guitar Hero (as the pedal allows them to strum with their feet), they can also be used to activate the whammy bar, giving them a much more general application. While they look nice and rugged, the highlight’s got to be the fact he wired them using the controller cables from an old Jaguar controller. Guitar Hero pedal controllers [Ben Heck] More »
Ben Heck’s PlayStation 3 Laptop
11:00AM Mike Fahey | My consoles absolutely hate Ben Heck. Every time he releases a new mod, such as this gorgeous PlayStation 3 laptop, similar to his Xbox 360 Elite laptop from awhile back, I tend to spend many hours sitting in my living room, eyes moving curious from consoles to the cabinet where I keep my (barely used) tools. With my degree of electronics knowledge, this is the game console equivalent of having someone quietly staring first at you, and then at a loaded gun in front of them, over and over again. Luckily for them I’ve yet to work up the nerve, though I do have an extra PSone sitting around gathering dust. I think I just heard it whimper. Ben Heck’s Latest Wonder Project: PS3 Laptop [Gizmodo AU] More »
