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- Gaming
- (1) Casino-style gambling. The original meaning of the term, gaming may also refer to gambling over the Internet.
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- Alienware M17x
- First look at Alienware's new M17x gaming laptop. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Games, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, alienware, m17x, gaming, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Image galleries 2009-06-01
- Game innovations at GDC 09
- Games enhanced by wind, vibration, and light, plus mind control and super-realistic motions. Check out the latest in game creation from the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
- Tags: Innovation, Games, Personal Technology, News, game developers conference, gaming, xbox, ps3, wii, nintendo
- Videos 2009-03-27
- Alienware M17
- For a few weeks over the holiday and New Year period I had the opportunity of spending a fair bit of hands on time with Alienware's mobile gaming apotheosis - the 17-inch M17. Does the M17 live up to the hype? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Games, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, m17, alienware, notebook, gaming, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Image galleries 2009-01-26
- Cocoon
- An inside look at the revolutionary Cocoon technology. by David Greenfield
- Tags: Look, Technology, David Greenfield, Cocoon, 3-D Internet, Virtual Reality, Gaming
- Image galleries 2008-09-14
- Sony brings better pricing and more digital content from E3 2008
- Sony announces a new price for the 80GB Core Pack PS3 for September. The PlayStation store will now deliver TV shows and movies--in standard or high definition--that you can watch on your PS3 or your PSP. 'Gran Turismo' gets its own TV channel, and we get sneak peeks at 'DC...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Pricing Strategy, Digital Content, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Game Players, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, News, E3, Sony, Gaming
- Videos 2008-07-16
- Tech behind pinball wizardry
- Don't be distracted by the flashing lights and the pinging, dinging, and clinging. The game of pinball puts some serious technology to work. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi visits Alameda, Calif.'s Lucky JuJu, the only pinball museum in the country, to learn about the history and the mechanics behind the classic...
- Tags: Alameda, Games, Personal Technology, News, kara tsuboi, michael schiess, lucky juju, pinball wizard, tilt, gaming, arcade
- Videos 2008-06-09
- Catalyst 8.3 graphics drivers
- Taking a look at the new Catalyst 8.3 drivers from AMD/ATi. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: amd, ati, catalyst, drivers, radeon, graphics, video, gaming
- Image galleries 2008-03-11
- 3DV's depth-sensing camera
- Tomer Barel, vice president of 3DV Systems, shows CNET News.com's Ina Fried a 3D camera called ZCam. The camera mimics hand moments, enabling gamers to do away with their traditional game controllers.
- Tags: Game, Camera, 3DV, Games, Personal Technology, Gaming, 3D, ZCAM, game controllers, motion sensors, Ina Fried
- Videos 2007-12-10
- The BIG Alienware m9750 review
- Comprehensive review on the Alienware m9750 gaming notebook by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Notebooks, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, product photos, alienware, m9750, notebook, games, gaming, nvidia, vista
- Image galleries 2007-11-29
- NVIDIA Gamer Conference
- In a vacant hangar at the Naval Air Station in Alameda, Calif., hundreds of PC gamers spent the weekend competing in Nvidia's GeForce LAN 4 party. The big draw this year was Crysis, a title some fans call Electronic Arts' most realistic yet. News.com's Kara Tsuboi bids adieu to the...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Gamer, Games, Personal Technology, nvidia, kara tsuboi, news, video games, gaming
- Videos 2007-11-20
- DigitalLife 2007 a playland for tech lovers
- CNET's Rich DeMuro walks around the show floor at DigitalLife 2007 at New York's Jacob Javits Convention Center, where new tech for the digital lifestyle was on display at every corner.
- Tags: CBS Interactive Inc., dell, digitallife, gaming, lifestyle, new york, nyc, rich demuro, tech, technology, video conferencing, video game
- Videos 2007-09-28
- DemoFall 2007: Most memorable of future tech
- Check out the best--and worst--that the DemoFall 2007 conference in San Diego has to offer.
- Tags: San Diego, demo, demofall, product, future, tech, technology, rafe needleman, erica ogg, webware, dimdim, vyro, games, video game, gaming, feedhub, fixmymovie, motion dsp, phreesia, pudding
- Videos 2007-09-28
- PS3 sales up 135% after price cut - still long way to go to catch Wii
- Sony learns that in the end it really does come down to price.There was no doubt in my mind that Sony had pitched the price of the PS3 way too high for it to catch on beyond hardcore Sony fans and those who live to game. The idea that parents...
- Tags: Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Get your $500 PS3 ... while you can!
- Days after announcing a 17% price cut, Sony decides to phase out the $499 PlayStation 3 games console, leaving US buyers with a choice - buy the 80GB PS3, or buy something else.The $499 PS3 will continue to be offered for sale until current stocks are depleted. Sony says that...
- Tags: Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- It's content that drives the adoption of new technology
- Many companies still seem to be missing the point. Outside of a small number of tech-heads, it's content that drives the adoption of new technology, not how cool the technology actually is.Two areas where this simple but trustworthy rule of thumb has been forgotten are home entertainment and games consoles. ...
- Tags: Blu-ray, Gadgets, Gaming, Hardware, HD-DVD, Marketing, Thoughts
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Sony and AMD cut prices to try to stimulate sales
- Both Sony and AMD are cutting prices this week in order to try to stimulate sales.Sony is cutting 17% off the price of the PS3 games console. In real terms this means a price cut of $100, making the PS3 $20 pricier than the top-end Xbox 360 bundle (that is,...
- Tags: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Components, Gaming, Hardware, sales, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 3
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Xbox 360 unreliability costs Microsoft $1 billion
- Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console just took a huge step away from profitability yesterday when the company announced that it will take a $1 billion charge to cover manufacturing defects and the additional burden of giving consumers an extended warranty. Will the Xbox ever turn a profit?Microsoft's quite used to fixing...
- Tags: Microsoft, Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Wii continues to hammer PS3 in Japan
- The Nintendo Wii continues to outsell both Sony's PS3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 in Japan.Although the Wii has been on sale since late last year, they're selling so briskly supply still hasn't caught up with demand and long lines form when shipments arrive at stores.Enterbrain Inc., the publisher, found that...
- Tags: Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Sony releases updated firmware for PS3
- Shifting attention from one overhyped product the iphone to another, this time the PS3. Sony has released updated firmware for the PS3 games console.Firmware version 1.82 adds the following features: Support for playback of AVC High Profile (H.264/MPEG-4) format video has been added. ** High image quality encoding method used by...
- Tags: Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- The PS3 price-drop dilemma
- I keep hearing rumors and reports that suggest that pretty soon Sony will cut the price of the PS3. But cutting the price comes at a risk.I have no doubt the PS3 is currently overpriced and I know that Sony is begging everyone to see it as more than a...
- Tags: Trends, Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
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