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    We get hands-on with the new Sony PSP-3000. Find out what the new system can do and see how the system's new LCD screen compares to the older PSP display.   continue »

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  • Falon Northwest Mach V

    Falcon Northwest recently shipped a high-end Mach V system to our office. Three elegant black boxes arrived bearing the Falcon emblem. Covered in a cloth-like shroud, we found our Mach V nestled inside a monolith of a box. The Mach V hung as if in mid-air. A strong clear plastic held the computer away from the sides of the box to protect it. The first of the smaller boxes contained a heavily padded instruction manual and some extra cables packed away in a cloth tool case. The second box contained a shirt, a hat, and of all things, Falcon Northwest branded coffee, and a Falcon mug. I don't know how they knew that my favorite way to game was with a mug of coffee while wearing a black baseball cap with a makeshift t-shirt do-rag underneath, but they had things just right.

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    If you're unfamiliar with Falcon Northwest, the company has been crafting high-end gaming rigs for countless years. Budget systems at Falcon start in the $2000 range. Although, even budget systems at Falcon are formidable, filled with high-end video cards, premium CPUs and copious amounts of RAM. High-end machines start in the $3000 range and can easily be configured to cost well over $10,000.

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  • The Razer Lycosa

    When I first got to see the Razer Lycosa keyboard it was when I asked Hardware Editor James Yu if he had a USB keyboard I could borrow. You see, it was game night and the PS3 does not recognize any kind of keyboard except those that connect either via bluetooth or USB. Truth be told, typing text messages with the sixaxis is an exercise in frustration for me.

    James handed over the black box containing the Lycosa keyboard. When I got back to my desk I plugged it in, and proceeded to begin typing out messages aplenty. The keyboard was light and well balanced on my lap. In the dark of the after-hours office, the keys were very impressive and easy to find thanks to soft blue backlighting. After an hour with the soft keys I knew I had to get one for myself.

  • Motus CEO talks Darwin motion-control

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    The success of the Wii has brought a lot of attention to motion-based game controls. Sony and Microsoft are undoubtedly working on their own motion-control systems right at this moment, but Motus, a company started by a team of MIT grads out in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has already demonstrated a new controller that has the potential to bring motion control to any gaming platform.

    The engineers at Motus were able to develop its Darwin controller relatively quickly because they spent years learning about motion-sensing technology while developing their first product, the iClub, a hardware and software package designed for golf instruction. The Darwin controller shares the familiar wandlike shape of the vanilla Wii Remote, but has more internal sensors that promise superior performance.

    We had a chance to speak with Motus CEO Satayan Mahajan to find out more about the Darwin controller and the company's plans to bring it to market.

    GameSpot: What exactly is the Darwin?

    Satayan Mahajan: The Darwin controller is basically a motion-based controller that is competitive to the Wii, designed for the platforms other than the Wii--Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.

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    GS: What kind of hardware does the controller feature? Accelerometers, gyroscopes?

    SM: It's both accelerometers and gyroscopes, and magnetometers. All three of those combined in very clever ways give us what we believe are better capabilities than the Wiimote.

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