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Wednesday, Nov 4
French magazine shoots handhelds through boards, much to our amusement
As you know, there's one thing we love more than gadgets -- wanton destruction. Combine the two (on someone else's dime, o'course) and we're having a pretty good day. That said, we're glad that there are others out there with our bent, including Amusement, a "gaming lifestyle" mag based en F...
Friday, Oct 30
Nintendo's Iwata muses about Kindle-like business model for future handheld
You may simply be able to chalk this one up to some freewheeling speculation and rumination, but Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata went pretty far out on a limb in talking about the future of the company during a recent sit-down with the Financial Times, and indicated that Nintendo may just be look...
Black Wii gets unboxed just in time for the darkest holiday
Those lucky enough to live in Europe will soon (as in November 6th soon) be able to purchase a special edition of that black Nintendo Wii some of us have been drooling over for the past few months. Sure, it's just a regular Wii... but it's black, which is so much cooler. Well someone's finally gotte...
Family awarded $16.5 million for wrongful death in 'Hold Your Wee for a Wii' contest
Way back in January of 2007, we reported on the Strange family, who were suing Sacramento radio station KDND-FM for the wrongful death of Jennifer Strange, who was found dead in her home after competing in a contest to try to win a Nintendo Wii. The contest -- "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" -- involv...
Thursday, Oct 29
The DSi XL gets sized up, then Joystiq answers your nagging questions
Two items of note for future owners of the DSi XL (aka, The Gigantic DSi) Nintendo has slated for a November launch in Japan (and Q1 2010 here in the US). First, if you've been wondering just how much bigger this thing is in comparison to the previous version of the handheld, wonder no more. The d...
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Nintendo DSi XL coming to America in Q1 2010
Since Europe and Japan can't have all the fun -- unless, of course, it's a black Nintendo Wii -- the super-sized DSi XL is also due out in the US sometime in Q1 2010, according to a spokesperson speaking with Joystiq. Still no word on price, but we wouldn't be surprised if it parallel the slight...
Nintendo profits sink on declining console sales, weak game selection
Oh how the mighty have fallen. Nintendo just announced that its interim net profit was cut by more than half to ¥69.49 billion (about $770 million), from ¥144.83 billion last year at this time -- figures that won't be helped by the cheaper Wii price tag announced at the end of September. Speakin...
Nintendo DSi LL goes large in Japan on November 21
Whoa, it's true: the rumor of a bigger screen DSi was just validated by Nintendo. Shipping November 21st in Japan, the 4-inch DSi LL is priced at ¥20,000 (about $221). The above comparison is straight from the Big N. developing...Nintendo DSi LL goes large in Japan on November 21 originally appe...
Sunday, Sep 27
Engadget Podcast 164 - 09.27.2009
It's been a crazy week in news, and after a couple cross-country flights the podcast crew is together and ready to break it all down. Join Josh, Paul and Nilay as they take on Microsoft's Courier tablet concept and rumored Pink smartphones, dish on the HTC Leo and Windows Mobile, debate the f...
Tuesday, Jul 7
PSP2 to be based on iPhone-esque PowerVR GPU, rival original Xbox in power?
If Sony's PSPgo was some halfhearted attempt to quell incessant PSP2 rumoring (and our favorite PSP2 mockup render, above), it certainly doesn't seem to have worked. The new rumor out and about is that the inevitable PSP2 will harbor a PowerVR GPU along the lines of what's present in the ne...
Friday, Jun 5
Engadget Podcast 149 - 06.05.2009
lt;div align="center"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/02/engadget-podcast.jpg" alt="" title="Engadget Podcast" /></div> As you may soon become aware, this week's podcast is about two hours lo...
Motion control wars: Xbox 360 and PS3 are playing catch-up with Wii next year, who will do it right?
Of course, that's all about to change next year, with the emergence of the Microsoft's Project Natal and Sony's PlayStation motion controller. Typical thinking would suggest that Sony and Microsoft will be attempting to capture a slice of the casual gaming market that the Wii has so well...
Friday, May 15
Zune HD (xYz) positioned to take on Apple, Sony, Nintendo and Google?
Sounding too good to be true, the cats at Teamxbox have posted a lengthy piece quoting multiple sources from Redmond and Santa Clara who anonymously spill the beans on what the Zune HD is and isn't. The "digital entertainment handheld," dubbed unanimously as product "xYz" by said sources...
Thursday, Apr 9
Engadget's recession antidote: win Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the Nintendo DS!
This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn't want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back -- so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We'll...
Friday, Mar 27
Engadget Podcast 139 - 03.27.2009
00:03:15 - OnLive killed the game console star? 00:17:50 - Nintendo launches Wii System Menu 4.0, including SD card WiiWare playback 00:25:35 - 'Resident Evil 5' Xbox 360 unboxing 00:27:25 - Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i now official (and that article Nilay was talking about)
Tuesday, Dec 2
Video: How-to guide for making your Nintendo 64 portable
Revision3's own Daniel just couldn't sit idly by watching portable N64 after portable N64 pass him by while doing nothing, so he decided to gut his own console and shove it into a battery-powered unit that can be taken practically anywhere. Sure, it's one thing to read through a step-by-st...
Monday, Nov 10
New SNES portable is heavy on the SNES, light on the portable
The SNES has certainly proven to be one of the most popular consoles to get the portable treatment among those go-getter console modders out there, and it looks like it's not showing any signs of losing that status, with this so-called SNEP (Super Nintendo Entertainment Portable) only t...
Thursday, Oct 30
Video: PSP beautifully modded to accept SNES controller
There's seamless, and then there's Foo's PSP mod. Easily one of the most remarkably clean gaming mods we've seen to date, this here hack involved an old socket originally intended for a cellphone, steady hands and an unwanted Super Nintendo controller (we're simplifying things, but wor...
Friday, Sep 26
Nintendo fights breast cancer with DS Lite Limited Edition Pink Ribbon
In keeping with a time-honored gadget tradition, a new paint job for the Nintendo DS Lite has surfaced: the Limited Edition Pink Ribbon -- not just for girls mind you, breast cancer affects us all. While the polar white console doesn't include any games or nifty carrying case, five dollars...
Thursday, Sep 18
Nintendo thwarting Wii modders with epoxy-locked chips; Wii Backup Loader abandoned
A double shot of bad news for the Wii hacking set today -- not only do new Wiis appear to have a modchip-proof layer of epoxy around the DVD-ROM IC chips, Waninkoko has abandoned the Wii Backup-Loader project. The modchip news isn't all that surprising -- Ninty's been fighting a losing battl...
Friday, May 9
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 call that the company's upcoming Guitar Hero: On Tour game / controller combo will not only be released on its own this June, but in a new Nintend...
Sunday, Jul 15
Old PSP model to be phased out
Filed under: GamingNot that we weren't assuming this anyway, but Sony has gone on record to say that when the new PSP starts shipping in September, it will completely replace the original, 19 percent fatter PSP model. Sony definitely ain't no Nintendo, which continues to sell GameBoy Adv...
Monday, Mar 5
Nintendo DS does geopositioning with WiFi
A highly reliable source just sent in this image of a Nintendo DS using WiFi triangulation -- rather than GPS -- for geopositioning data (sorta like that iriver W10 we mentioned back in January). Not sure when this might be commercialized, but it would potentially make it possible to add lo...
Thursday, Feb 1
Sony sez Nintendo Wii is an "impulse buy"
Filed under: GamingHere's one that's sure get at least half (or so) of you fired up. In speaking with the New York Times, Sony Computer Entertainment of America spokesperson Dave Karraker was boasting about how "100,000" PlayStation 3 units were being shipped stateside each week, and we...
Monday, Nov 27
Nintendo DS doubles as wireless MIDI keyboard / controller
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Gaming Joining the nearly endless amount of Nintendo DS hacks already in the wild is TobW's DS Sampling Keyboard, which "uses the DS's microphone and touchscreen" to interface with a software-based sampling keyboard. A close contender to join our Music Thing...
Thursday, Sep 21
Engadget Podcast 089 - 09.21.2006
Filed under: Cellphones, Gaming, Handhelds, Podcasts, Portable Audio, Portable Video, WirelessWelcome to the new Engadget everyone! We're sure you've all gotten well acquainted with the new site by now, but if you're at all interested in hearing Pete and Ryan ramble on about the back...
Thursday, Sep 14
Nintendo Wii: the wee-little things
Gamers have also been critiquing the cost of Virtual Console titles: are people really willing to spend $5-a-pop for a bunch of low-res games from the 80's (especially when these same games are available for "free" as ROMs at numerous sites online)? Finally, some folks aren't all that wo...
