Designer Philippe Starck has unveiled Zikmu, his new designer audio system consisting of two wireless speaker columns, one of which acts as a speaker dock that can charge your iPhone or iPod touch while playing music from it. Music can also be played from them over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. He claims they will offer room-filling [...]
Filed under: Features
We here at Engadget Mobile tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there, we’ve gathered up all [...]
Atif Shamim, a PhD student at Carleton University in Canada, has stumbled on what appears to be a breakthrough in the energy efficiency of mobile devices. He created a module that replaces all of the wires connecting a phone’s electrical circuits and the antennae, making them communicate wirelessly. What’s so fascinating about this is that [...]
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360
Another option is now available at retail for shoppers in the U.S. looking to purchase cards loaded with Microsoft Points. In addition to the 1600 Point variety available for .99, Microsoft has released a 800 Point card for the easier to swallow price of .99.
It’s convenient, plus gift cards remain [...]
Evernote has been updated with the ability to sync documents between Mac, and Windows. For /month, Evernote can be updated to let you sync any document between your computer and iPhone. The technology expounds upon their note-taking process. Notes are created as they were before, but now any standard Office document file type can be [...]
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Fighting
Capcom has released the official rundown of what’s in the US collector’s editions of Street Fighter IV - and what (or rather who) is not on the game’s cover anymore. “We had a total re-think on our SFIV packaging,” Capcom’s PR director, Chris Kramer, wrote on the [...]
For many Mac users, the OS X 10.5.6 update broke their ability to pwn their iPhone or iPod touch. If you’re one of them, then not to worry. A fix has been found that will get you hacking again in no time. It involves an Automator script and a few simple steps.
Filed under: Meta (about Joystiq)
Also known as, “I logged onto Xbox Live and all I got was this damn snow globe” Edition.
Alexander Sliwinski: Going to play Far Cry 2 or Fallout 3, but really haven’t decided. Figure I’ll also spend some time in Northrend. Too many other games to play.
Christopher Grant: Did you make [...]
Filed under: Features
Each week Mark Methenitis contributes Law of the Game on Joystiq (”LGJ”), a column on legal issues as they relate to video games:
I’ve talked about piracy in a number of LGJ pieces over the course of 2008. In most of those, I’ve criticized many approaches to stemming the tide of piracy, not only [...]
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jkOnTheRun is one of my all-time favorite mobile tech sites, and a daily read for sure. This week they’ve "scanned the geekosphere" and posted their 5th Annual Geek Holiday Gift Guide - a great little list of the Top 10 best gifts for any special [...]
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Namco-Bandai and their newly-minted publishing company SURGE release 5 videos of their third-person fighter Afro Samurai. Voiced by the venerable Samuel L. Jackson, Afro Samurai features its signature blend of hip-hop grooves (this time out provided by RZA of Wu-Tang Clan fame), a stylish samurai manga flair and bloody gameplay that should work to satisfy [...]
"15 minutes of fame" is a famous quote coined by American pop artist Andy Warhol — in reference to a fleeting moment of celebrity that the media clamps on to, them dumps when something new comes along or when it loses the luster of attention and intrigue….
We shall see how long the shoe-tossing Iraqi journalist, [...]
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Business
Japanese gamers evidently don’t want to work; they just want to bang on the virtual drum all day. Or, more specifically, the Wii release of Namco’s Taiko no Tatsujin, which barely eked out a first-place spot over Animal Crossing: City Folk in Media Create’s Japanese software sales charts for [...]
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, Android
The T-Mobile G1 is the topic of today’s ‘How Would You Change’ discussion over at Engadget Classic, and given the obvious relevance to the Mobile crowd, we figured it prudent to pass along the link for your perusal. Head on over and drop some knowledge!
The T-Mobile G1, [...]
It has already been nominated for multiple prestigious film awards. Yet, one of the curiosities about “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is that so little of the film was actually shot on film. In fact, most footage was captured digitally on HD cameras directly to hard drive. Then, the 0 million dollar film was [...]
Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, iPod touch, First Look
Mouse House is a very adorable and surprisingly complicated puzzle game from Plaid World Studios. At first look, it seems like a very simple game with graphics that appear to be on par with Super Nintendo games. But, it’s actually surprisingly tough and addictive.
The game’s [...]
Sony’s PlayStation Blog listed a batch of new additions to its video store. Television highlights include the rad Batman: The Brave and the Bold series, while movie goodness includes A Charlie Brown Christmas and Alexander (yay for Peanuts! yay for Rosario Dawson’s…uhmm…thingies!). The post also showed the top 20 movies and television downloads for the [...]
Filed under: Sony PSP, Strategy
The diabolically addictive PS3 tower defense game, PixelJunk Monsters, is officially headed to PSP next year (which, if you haven’t checked your calendar, is pretty soon). Appearing on Spike TV’s “The Next Great Game Gods” VGA tie-in special, Q Games founder, Dylan Cuthbert, confirmed - and very briefly showed - the [...]
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As it’s not uncommon for a prominent YouTube posting to get tens of millions of hits, it makes sense that the video-gaming industry has taken notice.
Google’s YouTube has been making a good deal of money by allowing game developers to use its platform to launch video campaigns. And as the [...]
