GamingGet ready to wave goodbye to any shred of productivity you may have mustered this weekend. A native app version of Dope Wars is now available via Installer. iDope, as it is cleverly named, is an amazingly accurate port of the popular Dope Wars game. It offers all of the features we’ve come to know [...]
Remember how jealous you were in elementary school of the rich kid up the block whose BMW-driving parents actually shelled out $650 so that he could rock a Neo Geo? Remember how you had to pick up an extra bike route just to scrape together enough dough for Super Mario Brothers 3 while this kid [...]
Rumors, rumors, rumors. Where would we be without you? Today’s flavor comes to us courtesy of Bloomberg’s Japanese office. Their site is claiming that a newly revamped Nintendo DS should be on its way to retailers everywhere. According to them, the new handheld gaming system will be announced at this year’s E3 convention, which is [...]
Rock Band is a favorite around BGR World Headquarters, so we were quite pleased to see the following bit of news. The Rock Band online store has finally gone live, albeit only for our Playstation 3-toting brethren. The store features a large amount of downloadable content, sporting tracks from artists such as Nine Inch Nails, [...]
Better late than never, right? Sony has just announced that it will be releasing a massive firmware update for the on-board PS3 Blu-ray drives. The biggest change will be the upgrade to Blur-ray Profile 2.0, which will bring full online support for any Blu-ray titles that offer Profile 2.0 content. The first two titles with [...]
Such benevolence is a rarity among retailers like Best Buy, but it seems someone in upper management has a soul. The company has just announced that they will be giving $50 gift cards to anyone who bought a dedicated HD-DVD player on or before February 23rd, 2008. The gift cards are available by way of [...]
Our buddies over at Colorware have just added the DS Lite to their portfolio of customization service options and our order is already in. For those somehow not already familiar with Colorware, it provides custom electronics coloring services making use of a proprietary hybrid coating process. The finished result is durable, unique and just plain [...]
The "Guitar For Games" is one special piece of technology. For a mere $41.94, you can buck the trend of sticking with well manufactured OEM equipment, and step into the realm of shady 3rd party accessories. Tempted? We thought you might be. Nyko, the biggest little company you know of, has manufactured a "Wireless Guitar [...]
As news trickles across the web that Apple may have fallen a bit short of their movie rental targets, word of a new player in the online movie store game is surfacing once again. Rumors of Sony’s entry into online movie downloads has been floating around for over a year now, but apparently Sony is [...]
Are you longing for the days of yore, when your gaming systems featured little more than a standard definition video output and a wired controller? Re-live those glorious dreams with your very own Playstation 2. Target is now offering the new, slim edition of this venerable console system for the low, low price of $99. [...]
Random acts of violence have never been so valuable. As we draw closer to the impending April 29 release date for Grand Theft Auto IV, Electronic Arts has officially made a play to acquire Take-Two Interactive. The proposed all-cash merger represents a 63% premium over Take-Two stock’s 30-day trailing average for the period ending February [...]
Well, well, well. It looks like Nintendo and BAPE have put their heads together to pull off a pretty exclusive bit of hardware. The company has just released a BAPE-designed Nintendo DS. From where we’re standing, it looks pretty hot. Presumably designed as a partnership between Nintendo and Nigo, the handheld player features some of [...]
We’re not positive that virtual DJs will get quite the same reaction from slutty boozed-up club chicks, but can you afford not to find out? This past weekend it was revealed that Activision has taken the first visible step towards creating what may be the next entry in its series of interactive games. Activision still [...]