Gaming

Geohot brings back other OS support with PS3 3.21OO custom firmware

Well, Geohot promised a workaround for Sony’s removal of the “install other OS” feature in PS3 firmware 3.21 and now Geohot has delivered. While it’s not available to the public just yet, Geohot’s 3.21OO custom firmware will apparently be simple to install and, as you can see in the video after the break, it works just as [...]

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Older PS3s losing ‘install other OS’ option in Thursday’s firmware 3.21 update

Bad news, Linux fans. The older PlayStation 3 consoles are losing one of the features they could tout over their Slim successor. Firmware 3.21 is coming out this Thursday, April 1st, and its major raison d’être is to kill the “install other OS” option. (This is “not an April fools joke,” as the PlayStation Europe [...]

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Origin PC stuffs 4.4GHz Core i7-980X, Fermi-based GTX 470 and 480 into Genesis desktop

Hope you didn’t just pull the trigger on a new Origin PC Genesis, else you’ll be forced to know that your rig was made obsolete in record time. Okay, maybe not obsolete, but there’s precisely no doubt that you’d rather be rocking a new Fermi card than whatever you’ve got now. Right on cue, NVIDIA [...]

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250GB Xbox 360 hard drive now available for $129.99

It’s been available in Japan for a little while now, and it looks folks over here will finally be able get a standalone 250GB hard drive to breath some new life into their Xbox 360 as well. First revealed on the Xbox 360 Dashboard, Microsoft has now come out and confirmed that the drive will [...]

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iBuyPower crams Core i7-980X Extreme Edition into Paladin desktop line

If you somehow held off on buying a Core i7 rig as soon as they popped out last year, you’re in luck — and your poor Pentium II system is flat out of it. Just about everyone has updated their gaming desktop lines this week with an option to splurge on Intel’s 3.33GHz (or more) [...]

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Intel’s Core i7-980X Extreme Edition hits a slew of new gaming desktops

Intel’s six-core, twelve-threaded Core i7-980X Extreme Edition has turned the hardcore gaming community on its head, and just about everyone is scrounging around in a (mostly futile) attempt to locate $999. For those in dire need of an entire system replacement, it seems that today’s the day to start looking. Shortly after we heard that [...]

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MSI announces GE700 gaming laptop for those who like to be entertained

You can’t go more than a few days without MSI dropping another new laptop, and today’s is the GE700. It’s not only 100 more than the GE600 from a few weeks ago, but a little bit bigger, sporting a 17.3-inch LCD with an unspecified resolution, up to a nine cell battery, and room for dual [...]

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Alienware sneaks Core i7-980X Extreme Edition into Area-51 ALX desktop

We heard at Intel’s GDC press event that Alienware would be one of the first PC manufacturers to ship systems with the newest six-core consumer processor, but neither company’s representatives would confess to “when.” Now, we’ve our answer… sort of. Hot Hardware has received a shiny new Alienware Area-51 ALX, complete with twin ATI Radeon [...]

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Wii Fit push up bars make sense, but this one isn’t worth dollars (Video)

Push-up bars for the Wii Balance Board? Now that sounds like a fantastic idea — just the thing broad-shouldered individuals need to play Wii Fit without backstrain. Too bad this particular set of bars isn’t worth the plastic it’s printed from. The latest and greatest from the minds in the chintzy plastic peripheral industry, the [...]

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Odroid handheld game console due early March sportin’ Android 2.1

We know you’ve been champing at the bit for some Odroid news… wait, you forgot already? You know, the Android-powered handheld game system that the manufacturer, Hardkernel, bills “the developer-focused portable game device”? To be honest, we’d hope that the company would focus on game players, but that’s really beside the point: the thing finally [...]

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