Have you held out to this long without buying a Xbox 360 Wifi adapter? If you did, God bless you because I sure as hell didn’t. You might want to wait one more month because on Nov. 2, a new Wifi adapter is coming and it has 2 receivers on it and is able to get HD streaming because download speed will be increased greatly. According to sources, it WILL work with both 802.11g and 802.11b wireless routers, which is what most people have anyway. This might not be a bad pick up if you need Wifi on your Xbox, but it is sure to make the normal adapter drop in price as it will be phased out.
As an iPhone owner who likes to use the phone a lot, I’ve been struggling to find a solid external battery situation for those times when I can’t be near a power source (home, office, car, lunch buffet at the strip club, wherever). I’ve tried plenty of solutions and shelled out a bunch of money, but didn’t come up with anything I really liked. Kensington makes an external battery pack, but that required taking off my iPhone case and it felt like it was going to snap off. I tried the Incase Power Slider, but my signal dropped so much that my iPhone sat at “Searching” inside my house where I normally have 4 bars of 3G. Last week, I got my hands on the Mophie Juice Pack Air, a combination case and battery pack that claims to double the battery life of the iPhone. Does it win the war of the iPhone battery packs? Short answer: yes.
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An astute gamer over at the ScoreHero forums found an official Rock Band mic at retail the other day. It ran him $50, which seems a bit steep just for the mic. Anyway, thats not the big news here. What’s really big is that the packaging says it’s works for PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360. Come again?
EA and Harmonix have been very hush about a possible Wii version. Does the standalone mic hitting retail early spill the beans on the secret project? I’m pretty sure a Wii version would sell like hot cakes. I’m just worried about DLC on the console, as the built in memory won’t hold more than a couple songs, and currently Nintendo hasn’t made it possible to access saved content from an SD card during play.
We’ll keep you posted as things progress.
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If you picked up Guitar Hero III for any system other than Xbox 360, you’re SOL right now if you want to play offline co-op. To get a second guitar, you have to pick up another copy of the game. For the Xbox 360, you can rock out with the wired guitars from Guitar Hero II if you have one around. But have no fear, as Activision announced today that they’ll be making the wireless guitars available as stand-alone products in early 2008.
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock lets fans thrash and burn with new wireless guitar controllers available for each platform, including exclusive Gibson Guitar’s Les Paul model for the Xbox 360TM video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, WiiTM home video game system from Nintendo, and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. PlayStation®2 gamers will also get to shred on an exclusive shape, Gibson’s Kramer guitar, popularized by hard rockers and known for its body design, pickups, electronics and construction for furious finger fretting.
Stick with online co-op play for now if you must. It’s too bad you can’t do the co-op Career online.
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In case you couldn’t get enough Halo in your life, Microsoft will be rolling out the Halo 3 themed accessories this week, namely two wireless controllers and a wireless headset.
The biggest thing, for me at least, is an exclusive Todd McFarlane limited edition Master Chief figure that is packed with every Halo 3 controller. I have no desire to own the controller, but I’m a sucker for gaming figures for my desk.
Also of note, the Messenger Kit will make it’s debut this week after much hoopla in the Spring Dashboard Update. I’m really not feeling this one, but who knows, it might become a sleeper hit.
Messiah Entertainment is dropping two new accessories for the PS3 in September. Their Darklite line of products will feature a DVD Remote and a Lightbar.
Darklite™ DVD Remote is an ion-lithium powered DVD/Blu-Ray™ media remote for the PS3 featuring bright backlit buttons for visibility in the dark.
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Darklite™ Integrated Lightbar is a vivid lighting product for the PS3 that creates a unique atmosphere in the room while playing games or watching movies.
I honestly see no point in either of these accessories. The standard DVD remote from Sony is terrific, and do you really need neon on the back of your PS3? Both products will retail for $30 each, so there’s something for you to save your money on.
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Microsoft might want to tone this one down. They’re calling the newly announced accessories “hot”, which they’re saying are the Halo 3 Limited Edition Xbox 360 (how this is an accessory I’ll never know), the Messenger text input device, and wireless controllers hot pink and neon blue.
Ok, the Messenger is somewhat cool. I’m going to discount the Halo 3 LE 360, as calling it an accessory makes as much sense as calling Gene Simmons a virgin. Besides, it’s pretty useless unless you don’t already have a 360. The last ones, colored controllers, are far from “hot”. Come on, why do I need neon pink and blue controllers? I think Microsoft should change the title here from “hot” to “steaming piles of crap”.
I think they should have busted out this “hot” term last year when they announced the wireless headset and wireless racing wheel. Those are a lot cooler than colored controllers.
The Xbox 360’s Wireless Racing Wheel was severely overpriced. At $159.99, not many people were swarming into stores to grab one. Seeing this, Microsoft wisely slashed a few clams off the price, making it a svelte $129.99. Not a huge drop, but any price drop will be good.
The price drop is in line with the release of Forza 2, which Microsoft hopes will spark the sales of the racing wheel.
Personally, I’ve spent way too much on accessories for the Xbox 360 and don’t have any plans to drop another $130 on a racing wheel.
I’m starting to need a new storage area for controllers and accessories. Seriously, this generation is all about shoving more and more accessories down our throats. I’m not even talking third-party products here.
Let’s look at the Wii for starters. You’ve got the Wiimote, the Nunchuck, the classic controller, racing wheels, USB LAN adapters, WiFi adapters, and soon we’ll have blaster guns. It’s a lot to handle, just with what you need for gaming on the system.
We’ll turn our heads to the PS3. There’s really not too much going on here as far as accessories go. You have PS2 memory card and controller adapters and bluetooth remotes. Not too bad thus far. I’m sure we’ll be seeing some new things soon, including bluetooth headsets and an HD version of the Eye Toy.
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