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HP Blackbird 002 Gaming PC

HP bought Voodoo PC to compete with Dell / Alienware and here’s the first product: Blackbird 002, a rig designed and built for serious gamers. Besides the serious-lookin’ aluminum exterior you get liquid cooling, internal and external LED-lights, open and overclocking-friendly BIOS and a bunch of different hardware options. Expect a price tag between 2,500 and 6,500 USD.

So, compared to Dell XPS 720 H2C, who’s the winner?

HP.com: Blackbird 002 Product Site
HP.com: Blackbird 002 Tech Specs

(Via Acquiremag)

Posted by TG September 6th 2007 | 4 comments » | Link to this post

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Furniture, Lamps and Clocks, Gaming, Home, Nostalgia, Style

Stylish Arcade Game Coffee Table

Surface Tension Arcade Coffee Table

Surface Tension’s hand-made Arcade Coffee Tables comes equipped with solid 2-player retro gaming components and 29 classic arcade games (Bubble Bobble, Operation Wolf, Rainbow Islands, Space Invaders etc) preinstalled. It runs MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) so you’re by no means bound to those 29 titles either, there’s tons of games available.

That being the main feature it also sports wireless networking, iTunes, Firefox and Windows Media Player, so as long as your coffee maker is within reaching distance you won’t need to leave that couch of yours for quite a while.

(Oh, and it’s insanely expensive)

Surface-Tension.net: Contemporary Arcade Coffee Table (£3295, about $6650 USD)

(Via OhGizmo)

Posted by TG September 3rd 2007 | 4 comments » | Link to this post

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Furniture, Lamps and Clocks, Gaming, Home

Cordless LED Mushroom Lamps

LED Mushroom Lamp

Here’s a set of neat Mushroom Lamps available in red, green and blue, all gifted with bright LED light and activated by a gentle push on the top. They run on 4 AA-batteries so no pesky cords needed.

The red and green one ought to make any nightly Mario marathon complete.

Brando: LED Mushroom Lamps ($12.00)

Posted by TG August 30th 2007 | 7 comments » | Link to this post

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Gaming, Hardware, Microsoft/Windows, USB

The New Microsoft SideWinder Mouse

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

Posted by TG August 23rd 2007 | Leave a comment » | Link to this post

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Gaming, Nostalgia, Style

Dude gets huge Nintendo arm tattoo

Samuel Mullins NES arm tattoo

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:

Posted by TG August 19th 2007 | 7 comments » | Link to this post

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Gaming, Gear & Wear, Nostalgia, Style

Rockza Space Invaders Travel Bag

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)

Posted by TG August 5th 2007 | Leave a comment » | Link to this post

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Cell Phones, Do-it-yourself, Gaming, Nostalgia

DIY NES Controller Phone

NES Phone

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

Posted by TG July 10th 2007 | 1 comment » | Link to this post

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Gaming

Nintendo Wii Arcade Style 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)

Posted by TG June 29th 2007 | Leave a comment » | Link to this post

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Entertainment, Gaming

New trailer for Rockstar’s Manhunt 2

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.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIm9yzAne7s]

Rockstar Games: Manhunt 2 (Launching July 10th)

Posted by TG June 1st 2007 | 1 comment » | Link to this post

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Computers, Gaming

Dell’s new gaming rig: XPS 720 H2C

Dell XPS 720 H2C

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)

Posted by TG May 24th 2007 | 1 comment » | Link to this post

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