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jDome surrounds you with 180-degrees of gaming and public shame

Filed under: Displays, Gaming It's a pretty obvious concept, really: take a semi-transparent dome and project an image on it. Then, stand in the middle and

WiiWare lands Stateside, start defending those castles!

Filed under: Gaming Nintendo just brought WiiWare to the States, which means you can finally download original games to the console -- not just the classics ...

Circuit City looks for a suitor, Blockbuster likely to be it

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Gaming Oddly enough, the far-fetched proposal is apt to be accepted. Circuit City has reportedly solicited the services of Goldman Sachs to ...

Pandora prototype "demoed" -- screen turns on

Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds For scale, the Pandora crew set up a semi-working unit next to a Nintendo DS and flipped the switch. As you'll see, ...

Wii Fit: the 30 day test starts today

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals Since about 20,000 people -- the overwhelming majority of voters in yesterday's poll -- apparently want to see me in pain trying ...

Ben Heck maintains his reputation with Guitar Hero pedal controllers

Filed under: Gaming Modder extraordinaire Ben Heckendorn could easily be resting on his laurels by now but, thankfully for us, he continues to churn out console ...

Man kills neighbor over missing PS3

Filed under: GamingEdward Keith Stoddard Jr. really likes his PlayStation 3. So much, in fact, that if you were to touch his PS3, he may ...

Guitar Hero: On Tour to land in Nintendo DS bundle this June

Filed under: Gaming There's not a lot of details on this one just yet, but Activision CEO Mike Griffith has dropped word in an earnings conference ...

Carl Freer dishes dirt on the new Gizmondo

Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds If you were starting to get worried that the new Gizmondo device would never see the light of day, fear not! According ...

Current crop of graphics cards compared, ranked by price

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming Although NVIDIA's pledged to simplify its lineup for consumers and ATI's been getting better, the current state of the graphics card market ...

Another Wii knockoff arrives to give Vii some competition

Filed under: Gaming The Vii (or Vii 2, for that matter) not really providing all the satisfaction you were craving when you first acquired it? Don't ...

DIYer builds fully-functional NES controller coffee table, earns mad respect

Filed under: Gaming, Household, Peripherals Nah, the idea of using a freshly-mushroomed NES controller as your coffee table isn't new, but we've got to give props ...

Xbox 360's 65nm Jasper chipset in the works for August release?

Filed under: Gaming While our primary gripe with the 360 continues to be drive noise, any improvements to the console that might subdue the impression it's ...

Wii Fit feet-on: feeling the burn, inadequate

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals So Nintendo showed up at our place today with a Wii Fit -- and an accompanying personal trainer to crack the whip ...

Sony's PSP Skype headset finally arrives Stateside

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals If you've got a PSP-2000 and a hankering for some VoIP on the run, Sony has finally brought its Skype-friendly PSP headset ...

Ask Engadget: What's the best 40- to 50-inch HDTV with PC inputs?

Filed under: Displays, Gaming, HDTV, Home EntertainmentWhile we've already seen one particular Engadget HD reader reach out for assistance with finding a niche HDTV, this ...

PS3 has outsold Xbox 360 in Europe since October

Filed under: Gaming 2008 was predicted to be a big year for the PS3, and it looks like things are going according to plan: Sony announced ...

Nintendo Channel for Wii goes live

Filed under: Gaming It didn't exactly launch with much fanfare but, as anyone's who's already flipped on their Wii today will know, the Nintendo Channel is ...

NVIDIA to simplify product range as it courts consumers

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming, LaptopsNVIDIA isn't joking around when it says it's after a dominant position in the consumer tech industry, and it's apparently willing ...

XNA Game Studio preview with Zune games now out

Filed under: Gaming, Portable Audio, Portable Video Well, that was fast, the XNA community technology preview with Zune games we were just talking about is already ...