Articles on 2008

New Xbox Experience to debut on November 19 - Oct 9, 2008

Crave The date is November 19. Microsoft is set to roll out the New Xbox Experience worldwide for its console online service a.k.a. Xbox Live. A more extensive overhaul than the recent ... Read story »

Here's your ticket to the digital Woodstock - Oct 16, 2009

Blogs The world's largest digital festival, which some dub as the "digital Woodstock", Dreamhack, is starting to roll into town. The show that holds three Guiness World Records for largest B.Y.O.C. LAN ... Read story »

Why the Wii needs to chop its price soon - Aug 28, 2009

Crave With both Sony and Microsoft dropping the price of the PS3 and the Xbox 360 Elite, the Wii is beginning to look like an overpriced console. There a few reasons ... Read story »

Archos Android tablets unofficially priced - Sep 2, 2009

Crave After making an initial appearance at the FCC in August, a new model of the Archos 5 Internet media tablet popped up on B&H on the first of September. The product ... Read story »

Wii Fit Plus bundle to cost US$100 and land on Oct 4 - Sep 2, 2009

Crave Released in May 2008, Wii Fit has proven to be one of Nintendo's evergreen juggernauts. The third-best-selling non-PC game in the US in 2008 with 4.53 million units sold, Nintendo's ... Read story »

iPhone 3.1 brings Genius changes, ringtones - Sep 10, 2009

Crave At its special event Wednesday, Apple announced the latest iPhone software update iPhone 3.1. We're still downloading it now, but below you can read the list of changes as provided by ... Read story »

New Wii and controller could arrive by 2011 - Sep 22, 2009

Crave In August, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata explicitly stated that a successor to the best-selling US$249 Nintendo Wii won't "happen any time in the near future." However, given Sony's recent introduction of ... Read story »

Nintendo cuts price of Wii to US$199 - Sep 24, 2009

Crave Nintendo has officially announced that the price of the Wii will drop to US$199.99, effective on Sunday. The long-rumored US$50 price cut comes in the wake of recent price drops for ... Read story »

iPhone apps making life in Japan a little easier - Oct 6, 2009

Blogs The always awesome Asiajin had a post today about "Koe-tan", a public transit application for the iPhone (iTunes link). The app allows you to speak two train stations into your iPhone ... Read story »

New Wii may come with Blu-ray, 1080p support - Nov 3, 2009

Crave More colors, too, please. Obsolescence, thy name is dilemma! Now that leaks are saying the reimagined Wii coming up in Q3 2010--which is just a blink away--will likely sport a ... Read story »

Bandai's infinite jelly-squeezing toy - Dec 2, 2009

Crave (Credit: Bandai Asovision) I'm not a fan of tokoroten, a Japanese snack that's really reconstituted sea algae that can be eaten cold or with a vinegar-based dressing. But as with ... Read story »

Is a slimmer PS3 in the works? - May 14, 2009

Crave T3's rendition of a slim PS3 Back in 2004, after the PS2 was on the market for four years, Sony went ahead and shrank its design down and brought out a ... Read story »

R.I.P. N-Gage: 2003-2009/10 - Nov 2, 2009

Features Nokia realigns its gaming strategy by integrating its N-Gage gaming platform, which never really took off, into Ovi Store.  Read story »

Gaming in a half dome - Aug 27, 2009

Crave One of the buzzwords in entertainment is immersion. From 16:9 aspect ratio screens to curved displays, hardware makers have been trying to fill as much of your vision to bring you ... Read story »

Toshiba releases its first Blu-ray player - Sep 4, 2009

Crave Seeing Toshiba and the Blu-ray logo on the same player makes us think "Photoshop", but the BDX2000 is a real product. Toshiba officially conceded the format war in February 2008, but ... Read story »

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