Archive for Tag: 0wning the Competition
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0wning the Competition: Mac Gaming
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Recently, I've taken to playing with Macs. A lot. In fact, I work for Apple now. But, on that note, I'd like to bring up the gaming front on a Mac. It's a front that's not really covered at all. I fee
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0wning the Competition: Sony Ericsson Z500a
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So this month I decided it was time to get another new mobile phone (or for those of you who call it so, cell phone). I went with the Sony Ericsson Z500a. It's quite a nice phone: GSM, data services,
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0wning the Competition: Surround Sound
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There are tons of possibilities with surround-sound enhanced games.
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0wning the Competition: iPod Click Wheels
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The latest generation of the Apple iPods, also titled the 4th generation iPods or "4G" for short, as well as the line of iPod Minis has a nifty new technology Apple has termed the "click wheel". The c
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0wning the Competition: The Original NES Controller
Columns by Kay Leacock on
With all this talk of next-gen game systems PS3, the 360, and the Revolution, it's time to think about the basics. The originals, the firsts, the bests. Since this *is* an article about controllers, t
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0wning the Competition: The Gravis GamePad
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Gravis has been making their GamePad PC controller for quite some time now. It has not changed very much at all, save for a few upgrades to Keep With the Times. The GamePad is a basic controller, reco
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0wning the Competition: Mad Catz RetroCON
Columns by Kay Leacock on
The RetroCON is your basic PlayStation controller -- you have your two analog sticks, your directional pad, start and select, L1 through R4, and your four action buttons (triangle, circle, square and
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0wning the Competition: The Ideazon Z-Board
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For the very first edition of this article, I thought I'd review a newer gaming controller, the Ideazon Z-Board. The Z-Board is a new take on the classic keyboard that lets you pick up custom keysets