Nintendo 3DS Nintendo Today Nintendo officially announced the Nintendo 3DS, the first mobile game console to get on the 3-D wave. On the outside, the 3DS looks just like the the standard DS clamshell we’ve come to expect since the device first launched in 2004 but with one big difference: One of it’s screens has [...]
Hands-On With the Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo 3DS official shot Nintendo We’ve just spent some hands-on time with the Nintendo 3DS, the 3-D version of the company’s classic DS platform unveiled earlier today at E3. While at first it’s tough to shake the idea that it’s little more than a gimmick, the 3-D effect does work. And perhaps most importantly, it [...]
Kinect: Good With Kids, Bad With Couches
Get Up, Stand Up Microsoft Microsoft’s Kinect, the controller-free, gesture-based gaming platform that finally saw an official unveiling at E3 this week continues to surprise us, but not always necessarily in good ways. For instance, we think it’s awesome that the non-peripheral peripheral can tell when a child is playing and adjust gameplay to be [...]
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sean wrote a new blog post: Storify Brings Drag-And-Drop Social Curation To The iPad 16 hours, 15 minutes ago · View
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