Archive for the 'Gaming' Category

No More NGage Devices until 2007

Monday, November 28th, 2005

Nokia has confirmed that they will be halting production of their N-Gage gaming phone until at least the beginning of 2007. Sales of the device have been quite disappointing. Nokia predicted it would sell 6 million N-Gages over the last three years. Alas, it only managed to move about a third of that.

XBox 360’s on eBay

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Just in case you didn’t get your shiny new XBox 360 yesterday morning at 12:01 AM, you now have a second chance. For a mere $1000 or so (less if you’re lucky), you can have one on eBay.

XBox 360

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Assuming you can get your hands on one, the XBox 360 looks to be by far the coolest video game console ever. A bit pricey at $300 (for a bare bones system), it packs quite a punch. An IBM PowerPC CPU has 3 processing cores running at 3.2GHz. The ATI graphics processor is supposed to churn out 500 million triangles per second. Not bad.