Take a pair of radio-controlled racing boats, partition off a kiddie pool, and you have yourself an RC Speed Boat Challenge. Hey, it’s like slot cars on water. Those little suckers look like they could go fast, but look out! There are beaucoups obstacles in your way, so you’d better get your steering chops [...]

Hirokazu Hamamura the head of Japanese gaming mag Famitsu’s parent company is predicting that Nintendo will unveil the next-generation DS at E3 2008 this summer. So why are we positive on this rumor? Well it is not made by some anonymous and self proclamatory Nintendo employee but by a businessman who heads Famitsu the [...]

We’ve tested all of Saitek’s backlit keyboards, and laud their excellent touch response and attractive, helpful illumination. Now the company’s outdone itself with the Saitek PK17U Cyborg Gaming Keyboard. This baby reaches to a new level of backlighting coolness, giving you control of not only the intensity of its three colors, but the ability to [...]

I have a special place in my heart for foosball. I love the staring your opponents in eyes, trash talking and taking off your shirt and running around the room every time you score a goal, but I digress. The 11 Foosball table designed by GRO design and Tim modelmakers takes foosball to a new [...]

If you took the classic Rubik’s Cube mechanical puzzle and changed it into the shape of a ball, you’d get something that looked much like this 3-D IQ Sphere.

Here is the question of the moment in my head; should the use of light be considered a design aspect? Now I don’t mean the designing of light sources e.g.. lamps, chandeliers etc. I mean the light that is emitted itself. Standing on its own, is that design or simply a cool visual effect? For [...]

Okay, I know some of you probably think that this is the coolest thing ever and you wish your parents had given you a board game that teaches basic programming concepts when you were 11 years old. If they had, you’d probably be pulling down six figs by now. C-Jump uses a ski race theme [...]

This helicopter simulator by Flyit is supplied in an 18’ trailer as a totally self-contained system, and its software has over 24,000 airports available.

Hey, kids! Forget cops ‘n’ robbers—let’s play insurgents ‘n’ infantry! Lap Sui et al’s patent for an ultra-realistic mechanical Toy Grenade is all you need for hours of convincing fantasy maiming and menace.
Filled with a mixture of powder, dye and compressed air, the toy grenade has a functioning pin that gives a few seconds to [...]

Most of us have spent endless hours guiding Mario to its love but never thought of how the world looks to Mario. Well here it is. Maybe after a couple of mushrooms it would look a bit better.

It’s nice to know that Sony Ericsson is plugging away on making our crazy, dare-to-dream fantasies a reality. The latest proof that someone up there (and by up there, we mean Japan) likes us comes in the form of a new patent for a touchscreen handheld that forgoes physical buttons for a haptic-feedback scheme. The [...]

Just in case you didn’t catch the blip earlier between Steve’s announcement of the iPhone SDK and the App Store, here’s some fantastic news for the thumb-happy sect: Spore is coming to the iPhone. In fact, the EA Mobile title will go down as “the first 3rd party game on the iPhone.” Sadly, it won’t [...]

The Mindwire company has taken shock gaming to a new level with their MindwireV5, which is promised to give you a true feeling of the action.

This neuro-headset by Emotiv will allow people to interact with video games using only their thoughts and emotions. I know what you’re thinking — you’ve seen these before. The difference is, this one’s actually going to go on sale to the public at the end of this year.The headset is able to translate a variety [...]

The Novint Falcon haptic controller has been out for a little while now, and from what I’ve seen, many people have a difficult time telling what it is at all, much less how it works or why on earth you’d want one. I may, in fact, have been one of those people. But slap a [...]

One of the sessions I went to today at GDC was on experimental gameplay. There were some demos of games where you could clone your character and interact with yourself, start and stop time, play through different realities simultaneously… Basically, it was an excuse for game designers to show off weird concepts which aren’t necessarily [...]

Disney Online debuted its exciting new virtual world and Internet-connected toys at the 2008 Toy Fair. I received a personal tour of the Disney Fairies Pixie Hollow virtual world, based on the wildly popular Disney Fairies franchise. Kids visiting the new Flash-based online [...]

Bet none of us have missed dropping a few coins in to these machines at pubs, restaurants or game bars to play Pac-man or Space Invaders. But now you can own one yourself and get unlimited playtime with out worrying about buying more tokens. Cosmic MultiGame Upright Arcade Machine holds about 48 games in [...]

Here’s a cool tabletop arcade for the ones of you who prefer having your collection of classic video games on top of the table, rather than hidden inside.

Evoking the pinnacle of arcade gaming during the 1980s, this is the video game system with authentic controls, original arcade graphics, and 150 classic titles built-in to [...]