ThinkGeek has gone official with the new product called the Mega Stomp Panic Audio Reality Costume. This device is a little belt worn box that provides motion sound effects to go along with your feigned rage. This has to be the perfect accessory to go along with an Incredible Hulk costume for Halloween.

The device can make a number of different sound effects, with nine different sounds in all. The sound effects include giant robot, rainstorm, zombie attack, gigantic monster, gunslinger, medieval knight, pirate, and 8-bit gaming hero, or a giant steam punk robot. Depending on the mode each step per stomp will activate a sound effect.

That means for instance on rainstorm mode, each step sounds like you’re walking through water and a big stop sounds like you just jumped in a giant puddle. The d ... Read more »

Gamers looking forward to the official launch of the new Natural Selection 2 game will be pleased to know that its developers Unknown Worlds have today announced that the game will be officially launching on October 31st 2012. Exactly 10 years after the original Half-Life modification was released back in 2002.

Natural Selection 2 is a a multiplayer computer game that mixes first-person shooter and real-time strategy gameplay, pre-orders for Natural Selection 2 game started last month, with two editions of the game being available in both Standard and Deluxe Edition, priced at $24.99 and $39.99 respectively.

The Deluxe Edition comes with extras including the game’s soundtrack, digital artwork, in-game Marine armour, wa ... Read more »

Google has been working on updating its Street View in Google Maps, the update is now live and it covers a massive 250,000 miles of roads, and refreshes the content from the previous version.

According to Google this is their largest update to date, and they have increased their coverage of roads in the United States, Italy, Great Britain, Sweden and a range of other countries.

Today we’re making our Street View coverage more comprehensive than ever before by launching our biggest ever update–doubling our number of special collections and updating over 250,000 miles of roads around the world. We’re increasing Street View coverage in Macau, Singapore, Sweden, the U.S., Thailand, Taiwan, Italy, Great Britain, Denmark, Norway and Canada. And we’re launching special collections in South Africa, Japan, Spai ... Read more »

This week Asus has taken the wraps off its new Windows 8 ready all-in-one desktop PC in the form of the Asus ET2701, which is equipped with a 27 inch frameless, 10-point capacitive touchscreen LED backlit display.

The display of the Asus ET2701 provides users with a high definition resolution of 1920 x 1080, together with a high contrast ratio, and a wide viewing angle of 178 degrees in both horizontal and vertical directions.

The Asus ET2701 Windows 8 PC can be powered by a variety of processor options depending on your budget and requirements. With options for Intel Core i7-3770S 8 MB Cache, 3.10 GHz, TBD: Turbo Boost up to 3.9 GHz, the Core i5-3450 6 MB Cache, 3.10 GHz, TBD: Turbo Boost up to 3.5 GHz , the Core i5-3330, or the Core i3-3220.

Users can then opt to install up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM and install up to 2Tb of storage using SATA HDD, with optical Blu-ray drive ... Read more »

The release date for Grand Theft Auto 5 has yet to be determined, but when a retailer posts a date on their websites, we have to take notice. It may or may not be accurate. GameStop UK has posted a possible release date for Grand Theft Auto 5 on their website. That date is the 1st of March 2013.
 

We already know that Grand Theft Auto 5 will most likely see a release in 2013, but a specific date has yet to be officially announced. GameStop could simply be guessing or they might actually have the real date. Just take it with a grain of salt for now.

Whenever it arrives, I know we all can’t wait to play it and it should be a fun game as usual.

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In a similar way that the rear of Sony’s new PS Vita, is touch sensitive. Senus has developed a new iPhone 4 case which provides a user with touch sensitive controls on the rear of their iPhone device.

The Sensus iPhone case is equipped with touch capacitive sensors built into the back and right edge of the protective case which are then connected to the iPhone through Apple’s 30 connector on the bottom of the iPhone 4 and 4S.

This connection provides immediate response times and the power needed to run the dual microprocessors within the Sensus iPhone case, making it perfect for responsive gaming. Its developers explain:

"Until now, the touchscreen has been the only input for iPhone. Controls have been limit ... Read more »

If you are looking forward to the launch of the new Nintendo Wii U gaming console. You might be interested in s new website post on the the which reveals the inner workings of the Nintendo Wii U.

The new article sees the Wii U team reveal the inner workings of the new Wii U gaming console, including information about Nintendo’s new MCM, a multi-chip module to house the crucial CPU and GPU combination within the console.

Genyo Takeda, senior managing director and general manager of the Integrated Research and Development Division explains:

"This time we fully embraced the idea of using an MCM for our gaming console,”-”An MCM is where the aforementioned multi-core CPU chip and the GPU ch ... Read more »