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If you are into computer gaming you know that proper audio can make or break a game, especially in competitive play. It is the ultimate advantage to hear players advance from every direction, which high quality surround headsets provide.

Sony’s DR-GA200 and DR-GA500 gaming headsets have been designed with gamers in mind, that want the full experience. The higher priced Dr-GA500 comes with full 7.1 channel 3D surround sound and a Dolby Pro Logic IIx decoder with Sony’s Virtual Phones Technology. The decoder contains the signal processing hardware and offers controls to switch between 2 channel, 5.1 channel and 7.1 channel inputs, as well as surround and special FPS modes.

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PS3 aficionados everywhere, there’s some bad news for those of you who were looking forward to playing games in glorious stereoscopic 3D-view at 1080p HD. Sony has restricted stereoscopic games from being any higher than 720p. This is to ensure to a higher overhead for processing and to ensure a quality gaming experience for the user.

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The iPad represents the next generation of mobile gaming and I am not exaggerating one bit when I am saying that. Just keep in mind that the iPad is just the forerunner of a whole new generation of consumer computer devices that will likely replace the current device of choice for casual computer users. Handheld gaming has always been a niche thing compared to the vast market penetration of general computer devices like the laptop and the netbook. Even the smartphone for that matter, has been in more hands than handheld gaming devices. And this was before the iPhone showed up.

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These are new video cards from Asus that are based on the GTX 480/7470 GPS made by NVIDIA. These use the GeForce Fermi chip and the ENGTX480 has the GTX480 core, 1401 stream processors and a 384-bit memory interface. The Engtx470 has 1215 stream processors. Asus actually had already leaked the box art for these cards ands hence you may be excused if you feel that you are not seeing something new.

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The iPhone has been getting a lot of gaming action lately. This has been quite self evident if you are an avid gamer on the iPhone, with all the great games that are already available. It is especially true for those who own the latest generation iPod Touch because it’s hardware is specially enhanced for better game play, if you remember your Apple keynote correctly. And now Flurry (analytics) has release some stats which show exactly how much gaming action the iPhone has really been getting. Hint: Quite a lot.

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Well, the rumor mill never rests and hence we have a new leak about the upcoming XBox 360. This time, it’s a screenshot that shows a USB storage device and along with come information that the you can now use external devices to store your games, save files, DLC and the rest. However, before your excitement runs away with your imagination, let me tell you that there’s a major catch here.

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Razer has finally gotten around to making Mac drivers for all its upcoming accessories. They announced this at the ongoing GDC (Games Developer Conference). Existing customers won’t be left out in the cold either. They have also committed to making OS X drivers all their existing accessories so that they can be used as easily on Macs as on PCs. And this announcement comes only days after Valve announced that Steam will be available for Macs, along with all the gaming goodness that Steam is known for.

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You what I like about the recent years when it comes to home entertainment? NVIDIA Ion! That’s right, the combination of Intel’s Atom an NVIDIA’s ION is the perfect combination that gives you extremely low prices and pretty high performance. And things just got better too, thanks to NVIDIA finally getting around to making the ION 2 official. We are already seeing the ION 2 pop up on several devices and here we have something that should please anyone who is looking for a slim, stylish (relatively), quite and powerful rig to use as an HTPC. This is the Shuttle X325, a slim nettop that looks a good thing in the making.

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The GDC (Games Developer Conference) is an extremely important conference for game developers everywhere. It has a long-ish history of holding these conferences for covering every possible aspect of game development for all conceivable platforms. They usually hold two days of ‘Summits’ before the main set of keynote addresses and other things start happening. Within those summits, there is the GDC Mobile summit which discusses every mobile platform there is. This included the iPhone up until the last time. But this year they have dedicated an entire summit to the iPhone, making it clear that the platform is now a major mobile gaming platform.

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Sony — a company that has its fingers in so many pies, it has to have a zillion fingers to do that! They are practically in every consumer and prosumer gadget category you can think of and hence, they too are going to try their hand at defeating Apple in the handheld segment. Not that sony is new to the whole handheld market (hello, PSP!) but this time they are looking at the whole hog.

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