If you’ve been following along, you won’t be at all shocked by this news. If not, you still probably won’t find it too hard to believe. What we’re alluding to is the fact that Nintendo has just shipped its 50 millionth Wii console — a tidbit that you’d already know if you realized that AMD just shipped the 50 millionth Wii GPU and IBM just shipped the 50 millionth Wii CPU. The news was broken by Nintendo’s own Satoru Iwata at the Game Developers Conference, where he also proclaimed that the Wii was the fastest
Lian-Li Launches PC-C39 Multimedia HTPC Chassis
Lian-Li launches low profile PC-C39 Multimedia HTPC Chassis Lian-Li Industrial Co. Ltd has launched the PC-C39 multimedia chassis. This low profile HTPC case comes in two shades, namely silver and black to match in seamlessly with your current home theater décor. The elegant diamond cut sublimely carved into the front face gives the brushed all aluminum chassis a style of its own. The slim lined PC-C39 stands at 435mm x 97mm x 400mm (W, H, D) and weighs in at 3.65kgs. This stylish chassis combines the traditional
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Get Your Wolfenstein 3D, Now in the App Store
Earlier this week id Software released an iPhone port of Wolfenstein 3D as open source, but at the time it wasn’t in the App Store. Wait no longer, it’s there.Besides having its own website (which you absolutely have to visit, right?), the game that id Software calls “the grandfather of the FPS at your fingertips” is located here in the App Store.Sorry, you can’t have everything. While the code has been released as open source, the game itself is a relatively high for the App Store $4.99. But come on: it’s Wolfenstein
ATT, Cox, Comcast Following New RIAA Procedures
Last December, the RIAA announced it was giving up on file-sharing lawsuits, and would be working with ISPs in a three-strikes policy program which would eventually result in broadband being cut off for repeat offenders of illegal file-sharing. At a digital music conference in Nashville this week, AT&T’s Jim Cicconi stated that the company has begun testing a such takedown notification system. An industry insider told C|Net: Cicconi told attendees of the Leadership Music Digital Summit that the notices are
PhotoFast’s G-Monster SSD Has 64MB Of Cache
PhotoFast may not be a household name in North America, but it may be soon given its freshest line of solid state drives. Over in Japan, the company has announced the impeccably titled G-Monster SSDV4 SLC Series, a lineup which includes 32GB and 64GB models. Both variants promise read speeds of up to 270MB/sec and write speeds of up to 170MB/sec, but those figures aren’t what is most interesting.Unlike most other SSDs and HDDs, these two will include 64MB of internal cache; not that such a number is completely
Xbox 360 Motion Controller Coming This Year
Performance Designed Products (or PDP) plans to offer a motion controller for the Xbox 360 sometime this fall. This new controller called the Gametrak Freedom uses several accelerometers for mapping pitch, roll, and yaw. The controller differs from the Wii remote in that it uses ultrasonic 3D positioning. Also unlike the Wii remote, the Gametrak Freedom will come with two sensors that will be placed on both sides of your display instead of the Wii’s single infrared lamp. These two sensors communicate with an
SSDs Added to Dell EqualLogic PS6000 Arrays
It’s time to face facts, HDD lovers. SSDs are here to stay, like it or not. As we see more and more solid state drives flood out into the consumer market, we’re also seeing these durable, pricey and ridiculously quick spinners infiltrate all sorts of other devices. Take Dell’s newest EqualLogic PS6000 series of storage arrays, for instance. Starting today, users who need gobs of space for media, web materials or really, really long home videos can get an EqualLogic array with SSDs within. These high-end, enterprise-centric
Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB Hard Drive (Was $129.99…Save $20)

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