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Nyko Zero Wireless Controller (PS3)

When Sony announced that the PlayStation 3 Sixaxis controller wouldn't include the same force feedback feature found on the PS2, it looked like we might have to endure the PlayStation 3's entire life cycle without the satisfying rumble effects we've become so familiar with. Sony has since announced (September 2007)...

Tags: Game players, Engineering, DualShock 3, Zero Wireless, Nyko, wireless, Sony PlayStation 3

Product reviews 2008-04-08

Sony DualShock 3 - black (PS3)

When Sony's PlayStation 3 came out in late 2006, much was made over the fact that the new Sixaxis wireless controller that shipped with the system didn't offer any force feedback--or rumble, as the vibration feature in Sony's earlier DualShock 2 controller (for the PlayStation 2) is often called. Sure,...

Tags: Game players, DualShock 3, Sony Corp., Sony Playstation, Sixaxis, Sony PlayStation 3

Product reviews 2008-04-04

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Sony PlayStation 3 Slim - 120GB

Photo gallery:Sony PlayStation 3 SlimBack in 2004, four years after first launching the PlayStation 2, Sony brought out a new, much more compact PS2. Timed to come out just as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was hitting stores, the redesigned console helped breath new life into the PS2 franchise. It...

Tags: Game players, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony Playstation, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2009-08-19

Konnet PS3 and Xbox 360 Power Pyramid (charging and storage dock for game controllers)

Konnet makes a few different versions of its Power Pyramid charging docks, including one that's designed to charge four wireless Xbox 360 controllers at one time and one that charges four PS3 controllers which only come in a wireless version. However, the model reviewed here is the only one that...

Tags: Game players, Games, storage, game, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, PS3 controller, Sony PlayStation 3, XBOX 360 Controller, Konnet, light-emitting diode

Product reviews 2009-07-15

PlayStation 3 Wireless Keypad

We recently took a look at the Xbox 360 Messenger Kit, which includes a chatpad that snaps into the bottom of an Xbox 360 controller. While the chatpad was released over a year ago, the PS3 keypad just saw a release in Decemeber of 2008. While it does suffer from...

Tags: Game players, Mice, Engineering, wireless, Sony Playstation, keypad, Sony PlayStation 3, chatpad, pad

Product reviews 2008-12-19

Nyko Wing Wireless Classic Controller

Perhaps the most attractive feature the Nintendo Wii has to offer is its capability to play retro games from consoles of the past. With the Virtual Console, Wii owners have the option of downloading these classic games onto their system. Unfortunately, not all games downloaded this way can...

Tags: Games, Engineering, Nyko Wing, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, game

Product reviews 2008-11-11

Energizer Power & Play Charging System (Xbox 360)

Performance Design Products, which is simply known as PDP, recently licensed the Energizer brand to slap on its line of Power & Play Charging Systems for the Sony PS3, Microsoft Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii.The model reviewed here, the Energizer Power & Play Charging System for Xbox 360, looks very...

Tags: Game players, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, Energizer, Play Charging System, Play Charging

Product reviews 2008-10-24

Nyko Charge Base 360

Nyko recently released a dual controller charging solution for the PlayStation 3, the Charge Base 2. But unlike the internal and nonremoveable batteries of the PS3's DualShock 3 and Sixaxis controllers, Xbox 360 pads have detachable batteries. So the company's design for a similar 360 product required it to rethink...

Tags: Engineering, Game players, Nyko Charge Base 360, battery, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360

Product reviews 2008-06-18

Nyko Charge Base 2 (PS3)

Anybody who owns a PlayStation 3 knows that one of the irritating things about it is that you have to have your PS3 powered on in order to charge your wireless controllers. The big problem is that most people only have their PS3 powered on when they're playing with it--which...

Tags: Game players, Engineering, Sony PlayStation 3

Product reviews 2008-04-03

Sony PS3 hogs 380 watts of power, Xbox to get 1080p upgrade

Websites are reporting that Sony has revealed their PS3 (Playstation 3) will consume 380 watts of power in comparison with the 160 watts the Xbox 360 uses and the 45 watts used by the Sony PS2.  A high performance Intel Core 2 Duo PC with a high-end graphics card only...

Tags: Game players, 1080p, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony Corp., Microsoft Xbox

Blog posts 2006-10-30

Sony DualShock 2 Analog Controller

Sony's PlayStation 2 has been one of the most popular game consoles ever produced, and while the system's aging graphics engine has taken its share of knocks, the bundled controller, known as the Sony DualShock 2, has escaped largely unscathed and arguably reason for the playability of some of the...

Tags: Game players, Games, Sony PlayStation 2, DualShock 2, Sony Corp.

Product reviews 2006-08-01