Gamers Corner

While Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot singled out a nosedive in the DS market as a significant contributor to his company’s poor Q2 performance, he didn’t condemn the growing casual gaming space or his company’s increasing reliance on it. Where the DS software market is falling – Guillemot pointed to Ubi’s consistent market share in Europe, despite a drop in revenue – other casual opportunities are growing. “The DS is declining quickly, but the Wii is taking off quite fast,” Guillemot said. “That’s why the average margin remains around 20%.” So, while DS software sales dipped, Wii software was there to make up the difference.

Sony Ericsson is planning to enter in the arena of gaming mobile phones. Sony Ericsson will unveil its first gaming phone at the Mobility World Congress.

The Mobile Entertainment stated that Sony Ecrisson will introduce a gaming phone in February, featured with games-oriented user interface and motion sensitivity, which allows users to play a game like Wii on their handsets. There is a feverish speculation that Sony is working on a PlayStation-branded phone.

Now, mobile phones are taking duties of digital camera, MP3 player but still gaming is dominated by handhelds like Sony PSP and Nintendo DS. Firstly, Nokia was the one who attempted the first to integrate gaming into its phones with the N-gage. Nokia is bringing another device in this November but this time Nokia is focusing on software rather than hardware

ASUS, a company renowned for pioneering netbooks, has recently introduced its latest product called ROG CG6190 which is a computer specifically designed to meet the demands of hard-core gamers.

This gaming PC features Intel’s latest technology called Core i7 processor which has been integrated with X58 Express chipset, allowing this computer to provide impressive performance speed.

Intel’s Core i7 has been designed to allow ROG CG6190 to perform twice as faster compared to Quad Core platform. With this technology’s impressive performance, 3D graphics (which have becoming more popular nowadays) can be supported by this desktop.

Another impressive feature of this device is the built-in biometric fingerprint scanner. With this technology, users should no longer worry about forgetting their passwords since the computer can be accessed by simply pressing one’s finger on the scanner.

To further immerse users with the virtual world of gaming, the desktop features a technology called FX X-Fi Audio Card with 3D nine virtual speakers which can support high quality audio sounds which can maximize the gaming experience of people.

To allow people to use this desktop for a longer period of time, it has a unique feature called liquid cooling modules which prevents overheating which may impede with the computer’s performance.

Providing high quality cinematic features, this computer has been designed with ATI CrossFireX combined with NVIDIA 3-WAY SLI to support high resolution graphics which come in vivid and well-details colors.

This desktop also boasts DDR3 1333 memory which can support up to 12 GB capacity. Meanwhile, the memory has also been designed to provide 6 x DIMM slots.

In terms of exterior design, the ROG CG6190 resembles an ancient armor with stripes of red lights on the casing which comes in ultra-black color. Meanwhile, this unique design is a fusion of Western and Eastern influence.

Meanwhile, the company has not yet revealed the exact pricing of ROG CG6190 and the date of its release to the general publi

Rumors of 40nm NVIDIA GPUs have been official, in the form of tenders for two new OEM cards: the NVIDIA GeForce G210 GT and GeForce 220th Both support DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.0 and CUDA, with the G210 with VGA, Display Port and DVI outputs, while the GT-220 has VGA, HDMI and DVI.

The GeForce G210 has 16 processor cores and a 589MHz CPU speed, which is coupled with 512 MB DDR2 memory with a 64-bit interface and 500 MHz clock frequency. The shader runs at 1402 MHz. As for the NVIDIA GeForce GT 220, that more than 48 processor cores and 615MHz clock frequency, coupled with 1 GB of GDDR3 memory with 790MHz clock and 128-bit interface. It has a slightly slower shader clock of 1,335 MHz.

Neither the map is assumed that directly to the consumer, but as an entry-level options in the pre-PC. Everyone has a maximum resolution of 2560 x 1,600, no word if we have for sale.

Gateway P-7811FX Gaming laptop is about to be released. Best buy will sell the laptop start from August 14th.

It will feature the following specifications :-

# Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 (2.26GHz/ 3MB L2/ 1066MHz FSB)
# Intel PM45 Express Chipset
# 17″ WUXGA (1920×1200) display
# 4GB DDR3-1066 memory
# Nvidia GeForce 9800M-GTS with 512MB GDDR3 dedicated memory
# 200GB 7200RPM hard drive
# 8X DVD Multiformat burner with Labelflash
# 1.3 megapixel camera
# HDMI 1.2, eSATA
# 5-in-1 media card reader
# 9-cell Li-ion battery
# Weight: 9.2 pounds