Are you frustrated by game publishers releasing same-day DLC that screw used game purchasers over? How about making you pay for what should be essential, built-in parts of a game? Well, get ready for more of it. Peter Moore , president of EA Sports , is looking for how to squeeze an extra $5 out … Read More

Filed under: Gaming , Hardware , Software We’re cleaning out the video files from the chaos of Macworld last week, and while we’ve already shared with you an interview that we did with Dan Connors of Telltale Games (who just recently announced that they’re bringing their whole catalog over to the Mac), his co-founder Kevin … Read More

We were quite taken with the M11x when we got some hands-on time with it at CES, and while newly leaked info on the gaming ultraportable aren’t exactly what we expected, they don’t at all dampen the excitement. We knew already about the Nvidia 335M graphics running the show on Dell’s 11.6-inch machine, but now … Read More

Filed under: Gaming , Software , Odds and ends , iPhone , App Store For some reason there’s a flood of gaming news coming from the App Store this afternoon. So we’ve rounded it up for you to take in all in one read: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars [ iTunes link] has reached the … Read More

You know, making that jump from HDD to SSD still costs an arm and a leg, so how about somewhere in between that gap? That’s what Lenovo ’s offering as an option for the IdeaPad Y460 and Y560 coming in March. The idea with this RapidDrive technology is that you can have a 32GB or … Read More

The PSP may be a lot of things to a lot of people, but it’s not capable of pumping out images in 3D — cross your eyes all you want but nothing’s going to leap off of that LCD. We’ll have to wait for at least another iteration of portables before we can start expecting … Read More

We’ve got a sneaking suspicion that the DS Lite will be old ancient news by the time Easy Piano hit the market, but those who’ve learned to be content in life (and have somehow managed to resist the urge to snap up a DSi in place of their older handheld), have probably been hunting for … Read More

Sure this reproduction of Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam is a lil’ bit perverted by the inclusion of a coffee cup, but look closer. The entire masterpiece was painted using only coffee I’m amazed that I haven’t seen these coffee art clones before. They’re the creation of Karen Eland , a former barista, who one … Read More

You may simply be able to chalk this one up to some freewheeling speculation and rumination, but Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata went pretty far out on a limb in talking about the future of the company during a recent sit-down with the Financial Times , and indicated that Nintendo may just be looking outside the … Read More

Lighters are more often than not outside the scope of our coverage here at Engadget , and while we don’t condone smoking or lighting anything on fire … well, these are just awesome. Banpresto’s launched a pre-order of these two beautiful Zippo-style lighters, a Sega Mega Drive and a Sega Saturn which runs through November … Read More

Filed under: Gaming , Software , Interviews , Developer This afternoon I had the opportunity to talk to Jason Citron and Eros Resmini of Aurora Feint , the company behind the OpenFeint social gaming platform. At 360iDev , Aurora Feint announced the availability of OpenFeint 2.1 to the developers on hand, as well as touting … Read More

At last, Sony’s other worst-kept secret , the UMD-less PSP Go , is working its way through retail channels this week. The device itself is a marked improvement, but of course that’s not the whole story. In many ways antithetical to the hype surrounding the PlayStation 3 Slim, the debut of the Go has been … Read More

Foursquare is the location-based iPhone app getting a lot of love in the press (and from VCs ) these days. And while there is no shortage of location social networking apps in the App Store, Foursquare works well on the platform because it’s based on the active checking-in to venues, which is perfect since the … Read More

We’re expecting an announcement later today but the Alienware m15x has already been leaked in a trio of Dell service documents. Updates include a Core i7 processor, 15.6-inch 1920×1080 LED backlit display, a full 8GB of 1333MHz DDR3 memory, options for a traditional hard disk or SSD drive of unspecified capacity, a 2 megapixel webcam, … Read More

The Layar Reality Browser for Android has already managed to stir up quite a bit of interest in its current state, but it looks like the mad geniuses behind it aren’t about to rest on their slightly augmented laurels just yet, and they’ve now announced that they’re adding full 3D capabilities to the app. That, … Read More