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While the DS and PSP aren’t without their squabbles in the past, there’s the fact that no matter how much you compare the two, there are certain obvious differences in approach that make it a bit of an apple to oranges scenario. That’s why it’s so intensely awkward to look at the screen above — a DS emulator on the PSP. It’s running a DS homebrew game, GeoWars, and running it pretty slowly at that, but still. DS on a PSP. The DeSmuME emulator was ported by Japanese homebrew developer… Continue Reading»

Roast some marshmallows or some Covenant with the flamethrower. First screen and details on the weenie-roaster.It’s one of the most infamous screenshots in Xbox history. An early screen grab showed Master Chief wielding a flamethrower. That awesome weapon never made it into the original Halo or Halo 2, much to the chagrin of fans. Good news Halo faithful, Master Chief will finish the fight packing the ultimate Covenant toasting device. The flamethrower has made its way into Halo 3. You may now call in sick the week of September 25.Along with first details on the flamethrower, Bungie… Continue Reading»

Taking Halo or Call to Duty to a whole new level, Hackers have created an Wii IR Remote sensor and driver to port the trademarked remote setup to the Xboc 360. This latest hack turns the epic video game and console into a full fledged killing simulator.

Course, that’s not all the Xbox is good for. There’s sports games like Madden NFL, MLB Baseball or Tiger Woods Golf, there’s even hack and slash games like The Elder Scrolls. Imagine firing a phaser for the latest Star Trek Legacy game, or Battleing for Middle Earth in The Lord of the Rings… Continue Reading»

In May, Electronic Arts revealed that Ronaldinho would be the international cover athlete for FIFA 08. The publisher also announced that in soccer-mad Europe, many territories would see their own local stars join the Brazilian-born FC Barcelona striker on the game’s box. Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos would be FIFA 08’s cover player in Spain, Miroslav Klose in Germany, Andreas Ivanschitz in Austria, Tranquillo Barnetta in Switzerland, and Florent Malouda and Franck Ribéry in France.Though the British cover athlete for the game is yet to be announced, today EA announced who will grace the North… Continue Reading»

An adventurous and skillful modder has managed to turn a Wii remote into an Xbox 360 controller with middleware help from the PS2 control scheme — it’s as if all the console makers are working in harmony for this one hack. Try humming this to the tune of “Dem Bones” (actually, don’t, because we’re not even going to try to fit the rhyme scheme):

• The Xbox 360 is connected to the XFPS PS2 to 360 adapter
• … which is connected to a big black box Microcontroller “with custom firmware emulating a PS2 controller”
• … which

One of the most interesting new features of the newly-updated Wii firmware is the ability to see a list of popular Virtual Console games for your region. Now that there’s a decent number of Virtual Console games, we can imagine having a hard time making a selection. Siliconera’s Spencer Yip has provided both the Japanese top 20 (left) and the US top 20 (right) for comparison.We don’t know exactly how the popularity of these games is determined. As Spencer mused, “It’s not clear if these games are popular because they are the top selling Virtual Console… Continue Reading»

Xbox 360 documentation which notes HDMI port (Source: Shacknews)Yesterday, Microsoft announced across-the-board price cuts for its Xbox 360 lineup. Prices for the $479 Elite, $399 Premium and $299 Core dropped to $449.99, $349.99 and $279.99 respectively. It turns out that Microsoft’s announcement of price cuts across the board for its Xbox 360 lineup wasn’t the only thing the folks at Redmond had in store for consumers. A Shacknews reader purchased a $349.99 Xbox 360 Premium today from a Target store in Atlanta and was surprised to see an HDMI port on the