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Sweet, sweet Game Gripper. You make smartphone gaming a rather less cramping experience, and now you’re spreading joy to the fourth generation. Owners of Sprint Epic 4G can now get their Gripper on, and can do so with a lovely new Genesis-inspired layout that offers two rows of three buttons plus a D-pad — and then another four buttons for good measure. It’s rather excitedly demonstrated after the break and, like the earlier models, will set you back $14.99. Now, if only we could get handset makers to start adding shoulder buttons on their cellies.

Continue reading Game Gripper continues its evolution with a new Epic 4G model, Genesis button layout (video)

Game Gripper continues its evolution with a new Epic 4G model, Genesis button layout (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If there’s one event that’s immune to being overhyped, it’s the annual January expo of everything consumer electronics, known to you and us as CES. The only downer to this geek endurance test is that we’ve felt it’s been lacking a little on the gaming front lately, which is why we’re so giddy to hear the news that Nintendo will be rejoining the ranks of exhibitors over in Las Vegas in a few weeks’ time. CES 2011 will be the first time in 16 years that the console sales leader has deigned to pitch up a stand at America’s biggest tech show, with our suspicion being that the event will be used as an opportunity to remind the world about the upcoming 3DS handheld. Or to drop that Wii HD bombshell we’ve all been waiting for. Yeah, right!

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Nintendo returning to CES after a 16-year absence originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on May 08, 2007 by CyberNet.

There is a new Google Reader available for Wii users that will make reading your news even easier. To access the Wii version just go to http://www.google.com/reader/wii and you’ll see something similar to the screenshot above.

Since this has to be optimized for low-resolution screens this version removes the sidebar that lets you select the subscriptions and also uses large fonts that are easy to read. To select from certain subscriptions you can press the “1 button” on your Wii remote which will show a transparent menu similar to the one pictured to the right.

Here are the rest of the shortcuts you’ll need to know when using this on your Wii:

• up/down: scroll up/down
• right/left: next/previous item
• 1 button: show subscriptions (opens in transparent menu)
• 2 button: show links (opens in transparent menu)

When showing the list of subscriptions you can use these shortcuts:

• up/down: previous/next subscription
• right: select current subscription
• left: close
• -/+: collapse/expand folder

I’m not sure if I would want to use this as my dedicated feed reader since I have hundreds of subscriptions, but it would be great for any casual reader just wanting to see if anything interesting has come up recently. It loads pretty fast and makes it easy to go from one feed item to another by using the right/left buttons on your Wiimote.

I played with it on my desktop browser (since I don’t have a Wii) and it seemed to work pretty good there, too. All of the shortcuts were still functional, but the text is so big that people would think I was blind.

For those of you who do have a Wii you’ll have to let me know how well it works, and how easy it is to navigate through your feeds.

Visit http://www.google.com/reader/wii to see the Wii-optimized version of the Google Reader.

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Are you prepared to be blown away? Have your mind flipped inside-out? Experience a revelation to end all revelations? Tough luck, bubs. During an earnings call yesterday, GameStop president Tony Bartel was cited as saying that both Microsoft’s Kinect and Sony’s PlayStation Move would both be difficult to find this holiday season, noting that the Kinect would be “a hot item through the holiday season and the key opportunity will be just to continue to keep them in stock.” He also stated that the Move would be “in short supply,” and even went so far as to predict that consumers would be “following the UPS truck to our stores to pick up that product as soon as they can find it.” Naturally, GameStop’s in-stock guarantee won’t apply to the two things it actually should (read: Kinect and Move), and Tony stopped short of providing hard evidence that this so-called shortage would in fact occur. But hey, no one ever said that drumming up demand for a product your store hawks was a bad business move, you know? And on the real, we’re guessing that Santa will actually have the hots for these things, and if you’re considering one, it’s always wise to be proactive. Or spend countless nights attempting to snipe Johnny Doe on eBay — your call.

[Image courtesy of Geek In Heels]

Shocker! GameStop expects Kinect and Move to be in short supply this holiday season originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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So, it’s real after all, huh? Android fragmentation is making its way into the news again, and this time it counts. Rovio, developer of a little-known title called “Angry Birds,” has just penned a new blog post detailing the night terrors that have come with coding a single program to work on a cornucopia of platforms. In the weeks since Angry Birds was released to Android users everywhere, the company has been inundated with performance complaints, mostly from users with older / underpowered Android devices or phones using Android 1.6 or earlier. A laundry list of smartphones have now been added to the “unsupported” list (shown in full after the break), but thankfully for you, a “lightweight” version of the game is in the works. According to Rovio, that build won’t reduce the number of levels (or amount of fun / frustration, for that matter), but will instead be optimized for dawdling processors and Android versions that have been helplessly malformed by carriers. Nice going, guys.

[Thanks, Justin]

Rovio feels the burn of Android fragmentation, plans ‘light’ version of Angry Birds originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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