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Sony Finds One Last Way to Screw US PSP Owners

They say that if you want to learn something about a person take a look at how they treat people they DON’T have to be nice to – you know, anyone from kids to animals to waiters and store clerks. If a person treats them poorly without reason they are, quite simply, a lousy person. [...]

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Gear Games February 5 – 11, Featuring Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (Again)

Welcome back to the GearGames weekly video game release feature here at Gear Diary! After a few weeks off as the holidays more or less killed releases, we are starting to see a few new games. The three big games this week are The Darkness II , Jagged Alliance – Back in Action and Kingdoms [...]

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Gear Games January 29 – February 4, Featuring Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Welcome back to the GearGames weekly video game release feature here at Gear Diary! After a few weeks off as the holidays more or less killed releases, we are starting to see a few new games. The two big games this week are Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning . The original Final [...]

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Gear Deal: Sony PlayStation 24″ 1080p 3D Widescreen LCD Monitor Bundle

We start the week with a deal that will bring some fun into your life. This deal brings us the Sony PlayStation 24″ 1080p 3D Widescreen LCD Monitor Bundle. It includes a 3D Display featuring a 1920×1080 resolution, edge-lit LED backlight, a 240Hz refresh rate, two HDMI inputs, and more, PlayStation 3D glasses, Motorstorm Apocalypse [...]

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Playstation Vita ‘First Edition’ – Is It Worth Getting?

If you are a ‘technology chaser’ like me, and have the chance to get something a week earlier than the rest of the world … you take notice. In this case we have the ‘First Edition’ for the Playstation Vita, buyers can get the system a week early … with some caveats, of course. I [...]

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Gear Games January 22 – 28, Featuring King Arthur II: The Role-playing Wargame

Welcome back to the GearGames weekly video game release feature here at Gear Diary! After a few weeks off as the holidays more or less killed releases, we are starting to see a few new games. The only big game this week is King Arthur II: The Role-playing Wargame. The original game had loads of [...]

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Sony Bloggie Live at Hoover Dam, a Video Demo

Image taken with the Bloggie Live Judie received a Bloggie Live video recorder last week at CES and we brought it along with us to take some images and video while at Hoover Dam. As the video demonstrates, this diminutive Bloggie Live takes some amazing video and is incredibly easy to use.

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A Quick Hands-On with the PlayStation Vita

  I simply could not leave CES without getting some hands-on with the new Sony PlayStation Vita. Having abandoned Sony’s PSP after the original device, I was hoping to get a feel of what the Vita had to offer. Gaming on a mobile device is coming along quite well, but I still feel the need [...]

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Sony Delivers Beaucoup “User Experience” Products at CES

(Doug says, “Oooh; shiny!”) Sony is a big company.  I mean, it’s a whopping big company–tends of thousands of people; tens of billions (with a “B”!) in revenue every year.  Big.  Japanese.  Electronics.  You can bet that at a Heap Big Show (or “shew”, ad Ed Sullivan would say) like CES, they’re going to want [...]

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Vote of No Confidence: Sony PS Vita Sales Drop 78% in Week Two!

Sony’s Playstation Vita launched in Japan two weeks ago to what was described as success, selling ~325,000 units and over 300,000 games (yes, that is fewer games than game systems … I’ll let you figure THAT one out). By comparison, the Nintendo 3DS launch last March sold ~375,000 at the initial $249 pricing. So in [...]

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Sony Playstation Vita US Launch Line-Up and Accessory Pricing Announced

The PlayStation Vita came out last week and has sold more than 300,000 units in the first week, which is actually pretty good. It also sold just under 300,000 units of software, which is actually pretty bad. And it has already had a number of initial issues – which is one reason it is better [...]

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Capcom Unleashes Huge Sale on Sony PSN Store!

Sadly, I would estimate that the number of games on sale right now on the iTunes App Store FAR outnumbers the total of all reduced price games EVER on the PSN store in the years since it launched. So when there IS a sale … I immediately take notice! So when Joystiq combined the words [...]

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Deals on Sony Tablets

We’re always happy to tell you folks about deals, and right now we have some information about deals for the Sony Tablet.  Here’s what Sony has to tell us: Sony temporarily dropped the price of the Sony Tablet S by $50. From now until Dec. 31, consumers can get the 16GB Tablet for $449 and [...]

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Why Does Sony Make it So Hard for Me to Say Nice Things? Memory Card Edition

You might not think so from my posts, but I am really cheering for Sony with the Playstation Vita. I canceled my pre-order of the system, but that was more about the fact that there were no bonus offers … and Amazon tends to be great with those so I figured I would just wait [...]

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Holiday Gift Guide: For All Gamers

From the Editorial Staff of Gear Diary: Is there someone in your life who loves gaming? If so, here are five gifts with which you can’t go wrong. XBOX360 (or Playstation 3)- not an inexpensive gift, but more and more families are using consoles as a way of gaming, streaming video, and more! The Xbox [...]

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Save on the Logitech Z906 5.1-channel 3D Surround Sound THX-certified Speaker System

Audio quality matters. But until you hear something that is really full and rich sounding you can’t know what you [...]

PlayStation Vita Game System Review – Part I

Gamers gain a more robust mobile console experience with the PlayStation Vita versions using Wi-Fi/3G or Wi-Fi only online capabilities plus a rear touchpad, two analog sticks and a sharp OLED display.

BANG! Your Lights Are Out

Back in the days when I was on the look out for the “perfect tablet” (in other words, before I [...]

RIP Eugene Polley, Inventor of the TV Remote at 96

Image courtesy of Wikipedia I remember reading an article about 25 years or so ago! on how everything wired was [...]

Get a Droid RAZR 16GB 4G LTE Plus $25 Apps Plus $40 Credit Plus Double Data

AmazonWireless had the 16 GB Droid RAZR for just $0.01 with new two year contract. Thatnis pretty amazing considering the [...]

Windows XP’s “Bliss” Background: A Blissful Happenstance

Most people who have been using PCs in the past decade or so have doubtless seen this image, the default [...]