ces2011

Delicious Overkill: Gratuitously Overclocked 5Ghz Core i7 Monster

Sometimes a computer at CES is interesting because it’s functional and intuitive. Sometimes a computer is interesting because it’s the size of an air conditioner, filled with heinously tacky neon lights and overclocked to hell. Guess which one this is!


Fable For The Phone Is A Fun Round Of Coin Golf

The Fable series may be known best for its wild ambition, but the Windows Phone 7 spin-off keeps things perfectly simple. This is Fable: Coin Golf.


Avatar Kinect’s Silent Scream Hints At Enormous Potential

The silent man contorts his face in expressions of agony and humour. A fine web of digital lines trace every movement. He grimaces, he smiles, his eyes go wide, his mouth gapes open in a silent scream.


What’s Up With Xbox 360 As Cable Box, Virtual Game Room, Game Show Host?

Microsoft has a lot they want to talk about at this Consumer Electronics Show: Their big Kinect sales numbers, the future of that tech, their new phone. But they also have a few things they’re not keen to discuss.


Watch A $US5000 Game Controller Land A Plane In Las Vegas

Why spend mere hundreds of dollars on a fancy flight stick for your flight simulator needs when you can spend thousands on Saitek’s Procedure Trainer, an insane collection of instrument panels, yokes and rudder pedals?


Could This Be The Perfect Portable Gaming PC?

Perhaps the most innovative bit of gaming tech at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show is a palm-sized, touch-screen gaming PC that comes packed with a keyboard that can transform on the fly.


This Is Portal 2 Played With A Magnetic Motion Controller

Keyboard and mouse controls got you down? Yeah, didn’t think so. But if millimeter precise motion control sounds like an interesting way to play Valve’s first-person puzzler Portal 2, you might want to buy yourself a Razer Sixense.



We Are Servbot

As seen at Capcom’s Las Vegas Marvel Vs Capcom 3 party last night.


Watch Music Unlimited Stream Your Music Collection To A PS3

Despite going digital, music remains oddly attached to the devices used to buy it. Sony hopes to change that with the advent of Music Unlimited, a service that can stream your music to a variety of devices including the PS3.


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