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Microsoft is reviving the SideWinder series with a brand new 5-button mouse designed for serious gamers. Among the features we find software customization for each game you play, buttons to change the current DPI setting (400, 800 and 2000) along with a built-in LCD display to show which setting you’re using at the moment, a wide metal scroll wheel, a weight compartment so you can find the perfect weight (from 5 to 30 grams in 5 gram increments) and three sets of feet in different materials for that perfect friction.

Frag on.

Microsoft.com: SideWinder Product Page

As far as gaming tattoos goes they’re often either ridiculous or just poorly done. However, Samuel Mullins decided to honour Nintendo with a 3/4 arm tattoo just because his faithful NES saved his childhood from boredom and the end result is actually pretty impressing.

Mario, Goombas, Koopa Troopas, Lakitu, Piranha Plants and Bowser, they’re all there. That’s some serious tattoo work.

Check out a close-up of Bowser after the jump:

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Korean Rockza has started selling this retro PVC travel bag sporting the familiar Space Invaders theme, complete with scanlines and everything. The bag will cost you about $45 USD, but there’s no word on availability outside of Korea yet.

DCX Design Complex: Rockza Space Invaders Bag (in Korean)

More on Space Invaders:
LED-animated Space Invaders Doormat

(Via Technabob)

Who needs an iPhone when you can do like this guy and cram a Motorola SLVR into an old NES controller. Impressive indeed, but that hamburger hat of his tops pretty much anything.

“I don’t need an iPhone, but that hasn’t stopped me from spending the week tempted to go buy one. In order to bolster my resolve to have enough money for school, I opted instead to retrofit my existing cellular phone, a fourteen-month-old Motorola SLVR, with a new case, a twenty-one year-old NES controller.”

Jack of All Blades: iPhone Killer: My SLVR + an NES controller

Hori, the company behind the Playstation 3 Fighting Stick, is about to release a white Nintendo Wii version of the same arcade style controller, making titles like Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2 and the upcoming Soulcalibur Legends a bit more interesting.

The Wii Fighting Stick will be available at Play Asia in August.

Play-Asia: Hori Wii Fighting Stick (US $52.90, €39.90)

Here’s yet another trailer for Rockstar Games upcoming Nintendo Wii / PS2 / PSP title Manhunt 2 coming straight from the oven. Shortly put it’s a sweet mix of insane asylums, creepy people with masks and axes and dead nurses.

Rockstar Games: Manhunt 2 (Launching July 10th)

Here’s Dell XPS 720 H2C Edition, a machine built for serious gaming with a glossy piano black aluminum case packing a factory-overclocked Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor (from 2.66GHz to 3.46GHz), 2GB of Corsair Dominator RAM (overclocked to 1066Mhz), SLI-enabled dual 768MB nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX graphics, Blu-ray drive, two 160GB SATA-drives, Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic sound and a 1KW power supply - all kept cool by a H2C thermo-electric/liquid cooling system.

The machine features LightFX as well, meaning there’s three different LED light zones with 16 different colors and shades, allowing the machine to create light effects for fire, thunder, heartbeats, hit detection and such.

Dell.com: XPS 720 H2C (from $5,999)

Blizzard just announced that the long-awaited sequel to Starcraft actually is coming soon. It’ll be available for both PC and Mac and while there’s no official release date set yet there’s a bunch of screenshots up at least.

Watch the trailer right after the jump:

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The Wii Crystal Cooler looks like a pretty cheap way to both pimp your Wii (debatable) and cool it down at the same time. For a mere $19 you get a new stand packing a high velocity fan working hard to reduce the console’s temperature (and supposedly prolonging its life) and a bright blue LED light with an on/off switch.

Both the fan and LED light is powered by one of the Wii’s USB ports so no need for weird wiring or batteries.

Brando: Wii Crystal Cooler ($19.00)

(Via Newlaunches)

Here it is, Microsoft’s first ad for the shiny, black Xbox 360 Elite. It’ll tell you that it’s black, features HDMI and 120 GB of storage and that it’s.. uuh.. black.

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(Via Kotaku)