Christmas Gadgets

Back in June, at E3, Microsoft was the one to make the biggest and the most exciting announcement by revealing their plan of a revolutionary new way to play games with a motion controller, Project Natal. Sony wasn’t going to keep quiet and announced their own motion controller for PlayStation 3. For now we only knew that Sony was working on that peripheral, until today, when an actual release period has been revealed. At a recent interview with Times Online, Sony executive Kazuo Hira

It’s no secret that Sony’s motion controllers were in the works for quite a long time before finally being unveiled at E3 2009. Still, it’s fun to look back into the past and see how the whole project evolved. Our buddies at Joystiq have cleverly dug up some slides from a 2001 Richard Marks presentation which describes, among other things, a game called Misho the Witch — which made use of a ball-and-stick controller to train a virtual pet — much in the vein of Sony’s just unveiled EyePet. Some o

Back at E3 2009 it was announced that Nintendo would roll out the capability to upload photo to Facebook from the DSi . Well, we’re hearing from Engadget Japanese that that firmware updating is now occurring. It’s a pretty minor update which includes the aforementioned ability to upload photos to Facebook, and brings a faster “image display speed” in the DSi’s camera. We’re sure there’s some behind the scenes tweaking going on too, right? No word on when this update will hit elsewhere, but

Video Game – E3 2009 – Attack of the Show After Google dropped its Chrome OS bomb yesterday, the news that Google is working on a new operating system generated a media frenzy . Our own MG Siegler covered the news from all angles , and did a live interview on Attack of The Show (embedded above). As MG points out in the interview, this is just an entry point for Google (netbooks today, PCs tomorrow), and the announcement was expertly timed to take some of the attention away fro