In Real Life

China’s First Home Console Is Expensive And Elusive. Yet, I Found One.

China’s first home-grown console hit China late last month. But the console was incredibly hard to find. This wasn’t because it was flying off shelves. It was because nobody had heard of it.


October 18, 2011
News

China’s First Game Console Dated And Priced

The iSec, Lenovo’s home game console, was supposed to be out soon. According to Chinese reports, it will get a limited release this December in the Mainland. Previously called the eBox, the iSec has Kinect-style controls and will cost 3000 yuan ($460).


May 7, 2011
News

China Unveils The iSec, Its First Game Console

China is closed off to Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo’s consoles, meaning the first console available for sale in that country – aside from the knockoffs, of course – will be home grown. Today the iSec, renamed from the “eBox” announced last year, was unveiled.


January 5, 2011
In Real Life

From Boring Laptop To Awesome Arcade Cabinet

Lenovo – yes, boring old Lenovo – has one of the more interesting gaming-related products on show at this week’s CES: a box that transforms a laptop computer into a pint-sized arcade cabinet.


November 25, 2010

The Best Notebooks Of 2010

To find out the best laptops of 2010, we checked in with Mark Spoonauer who, as editor-in-chief of Laptop Magazine and Laptopmag.com, oversaw 140+ notebook and netbook reviews this year. If you’re buying, buy one of these.


September 18, 2010
News

China’s Ebox Console Hits Next Year With 30 Packed-In Games

Lenovo this week kicked off a second round of fundraising as it gears up work on a new game console it hopes to launch in China early next year, according to Reuters.


August 12, 2010
News

Report: China To Get Kinect Clone

Microsoft’s Kinect will not go on sale in China. The fact that video game consoles are banned (yet, still widely available through the grey market) means that Microsoft isn’t able to give the controller-free peripheral an official launch. That’s OK.


January 6, 2009
Uncategorized

Lenovo Packs Motion Gaming Controller In With New Desktop

Lenovo rolled out their new line of computers today in preparation for the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show. Among the list is an “all-in-one” desktop that includes a motion-sensing remote for gaming.