Category Archives: New products

Wondering what it’s like to play the PS3? It’s totally INSANE… this is definitely a next-gen games console that brings the fight to the Xbox 360 right down to the wire. Microsoft and Sony are set to FIGHT!  Read more... (1138 words, 1 image, estimated 4:33 mins reading time)

A rumour had spread on the Internet that Halo 3 was coming this week into stores, but the opposite has happened. A multiplayer beta is due in the US spring, with the full game to come sometime in 2007. Understandably, Halo loving fans are disappointed.  Read more... (455 words, 1 image, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

In the US, a box called the TiVo lets you record TV shows direct to the TiVo’s hard drive, and select the shows you want from an EPG, or electronic program guide. Foxtel has one of these, and a TiVo like box, but otherwise the main TV stations in Australia still don’t support a public EPG. Is that why there are no TiVo’s in Australia?  Read more... (669 words, 1 image, estimated 2:41 mins reading time)

While Nintendo promises the largest number of launch Wii’s will end up in the Americas, exact numbers aren’t available. Still, 400,000 will be on sale in Japan on December 2, with the US getting them two weeks earlier this Sunday on Nobember 19.  Read more... (531 words, 1 image, estimated 2:07 mins reading time)

Sony said the PS3 was compatible with PS2 games, but it seems some are having audio problems, while others aren’t playing at all. But is this really a big deal to PS3 owners keen to get their hands on next-gen gaming, and who still own a PS2 after all?  Read more... (252 words, 1 image, estimated 1:00 mins reading time)

Sure, you can burn a DVD at 20x speeds now, mere seconds faster than with the three month old 18x DVD burner. Still, fast burns can mean discs that could end up as coffee coasters, so while this advance is nice, it’s hardly earth-shattering.  Read more... (515 words, 1 image, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Sales of Blu-ray and HD DVD versions of Tom Cruise’s latest hit, Mission Impossible: III, have broken all previous records, while DVD sales are very, very healthy too. And this is all despite Tom Cruise’s crazy antics, his very personal love life and troubles with movie studios. Have moviegoers forgiven him? Maybe not at the box office, but on DVD and next-gen discs, he’s doing fine.  Read more... (378 words, 1 image, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

It’s been a long time coming, but Sony’s Playstation 3 is finally here. Well, in Japan at least – it launches in the US on November 17, and in Europe and Australia in March 2007. But in its home country, Japan, the PS3 looks to wipe out the Xbox 360 into the dust in a display of shock and awe only the US Military was thought capable of. Can the Xbox survive in Japan?  Read more... (549 words, 1 image, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)