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Where To Buy Original And Upgradeable PS3 Jailbreak In Bangladesh
Gamersworldbd reader Rabbi reports that he ordered the PS3 Jailbreak v1.2 from ClickBD seller and he has checked it to be genuine and upgradeable. It is priced at Tk 5,000. However two people must order at once for the ClickBD seller to import it from abroad. He states that after placing the order, 4-5 days […]
Nvidia Officially Unveils 1.5GB GeForce GTX 580, Coming Nov 9
Nvidia has officially unveiled the GeForce GTX 580, well on track to be the fastest DirectX 11 card. The card has 1.5GB of memory. Geforce GTX 580 is scheduled for release on November 9 2010 and will retail around $500-550. Check out the pictures and specifications below: GPU Engine Specs: CUDA Cores 512 Graphics Clock […]
Microsoft: “Kinect Has Not Been Hacked In Any Way”
Following news that Kinect had been hacked by two MIT graduates, Microsoft has decided to address the issue. Microsoft has said that Kinect “has not been hacked – in any way” and the “software and hardware” remains intact. Only drivers were created which allows other devices to “interface” with Kinect. “Kinect for Xbox 360 has […]
Don’t Play Fable 3 On Your Modded Xbox 360 With Kinect Dashboard Update
The newest Kinect Dashboard update (Fall 2010) for Xbox 360 has new anti-piracy measures, specifically AP 2.5 What it does is as we’ve said earlier, stops “backup” games from booting on your modded Xbox 360. Right now the only game affected is Fable 3. If you insert a “backup” copy of Fable 3 on your […]
Xbox 360 DVD Drive Catches Fire
Note to aspiring modders when taking apart your Xbox 360, be careful otherwise the Xbox 360 DVD drive may catch fire! A modder by the name of iwemion was tinkering with his 360’s innards while a slip-up caused his DVD drive to catch fire: “So i had my Xbox 360 case open, and it was […]
Kinect Hacked By Two MIT Students
Two MIT graduates successfully hacked Microsoft’s Kinect in a bid to win $2000 prize money by Adafruit Indsutries. Adafruit Industries put up the prize money “because its directors believe that the technology used in Kinect is too useful to not be adapted to further uses.” The hack bypasses Kinect’s security measures and allows control of […]
PS3 Not Powerful Enough To Handle The Real Gran Tursimo
Gran Turismo 5 creator and Polyphony boss Kaz Yamauchi believes that the PS3 is not powerful enough to handle the Gran Turismo game he wanted to make. Infact he believes that every PlayStation he has worked on has “restricted” him. “Software has to be created under the restriction of the hardware,” he told the latest […]
Kinect Could Have Been On Mac Instead Of Xbox 360
Surprising? The magic technology behind Kinect is PrimeSense. Inon Beracha, CEO of PrimeSense has said in an interview that their first choice was Apple and not Microsoft. “It was the most natural place for the technology,” he tells Cult of Mac. Indeed, PrimeSense had already help several meetings with Apple executives, and Apple went so […]
Hardcore Kinect Games Coming In 2011, Says Microsoft
Kinect has launched and the reviews are surprisingly good. However there’s a dearth (or lack) of hardcore games. That’s soon to change. UK Microsoft marketing chief Stephen MCGill has said in an interview that we can expect hardcore Kinect games to appear in 2011: “We have announced things, at the Tokyo Game Show, a whole […]
Xbox 360 Kinect Dashboard Update Has New Anti-Piracy Measures
Microsoft has apparently included a new anti-piracy measure with the new Kinect Dashboard update for Xbox 360 which locks “backup” games from playing on Xbox Live and (for the first time) prevents “backup” games from loading. Hackers refer to the new checks as “AP 2.5” and while details are scarce about how it actually works, […]
Hybrid Xbox 360 Games Using Both Kinect And Controller On The Way
Alex Kipman, the brain behind the development of Kinect, has told GamesIndustry.biz that there are games on the way to the Xbox 360 which will feature hybrid control methods, utilising aspects of Kinect and traditional controller technology. Speaking in a two-part interview, the director of incubation spoke at length about the future for both Kinect […]
Microsoft: Kinect To Sell 5 Million, “Biggest Xbox Product Launch”
Microsoft now expects Kinect to sell 5 million units instead of the previously forecasted 3 million, making it “the biggest Xbox product launch ever in terms of sales”. According to Bloomberg’s Dina Bass, who broke the news on Twitter, Microsoft’s Don Mattrick said the launch of the peripheral and the projected 5 million in sales […]
AMD Topples Nvidia As The Top Market Leader In Discrete Graphics Cards
Well folks, AMD is now the market leader in discrete DirectX 11 graphics cards. Much of the strong performance is due to the strength of the firm’s DirectX 11 graphics cards with more than 25 million of those sold alone. AMD managed to add 5.6 percentage points to its market share tally and now commands […]
EA Confirms PSP2 Existence
There are many PSP2 rumors on the internet. The PSP2’s specs are rumored to rival that of Xbox 360 and Ditches UMD. Also that the PSP2 will be using a HD screen and will be out in 2011. However, none were confirmed. EA changes all that. The company has said to CVG it “had exposure” […]
