Microsoft just announced that the XNA Game Studio, the user-created games program for the Xbox 360 is coming for the Zune. The demo shown at Game Developer's Conference shows a person controlling the game with the Zune pad, pausing the game, going out and switching music on the Zune, then going back into the game. Very neat. In addition, since the Zune has Wi-Fi, you can also do multiplayer games as well! You'll be able to multiplay from Windows
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Filed under: Laptops Ooh, like we're so surprised Dell. The ever-popular Inspiron series of laptops is getting Intel's latest inside, with the Insprion 1720 configurable with up to a T9300 2.5GHz Penryn processor for as low as $1,199, while the Inspiron 1420 does up to a T8300 for as low as $924. Granted you'll probably want to pair Penryn with more than the base specs (or you might be able to skim some more off those prices if you really work at
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Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment For those with under a grand to spend and an incessant hankering for a new projector, we've got phenomenal news. Epson has added two more 3LCD PJs to its ever-expanding PowerLite line, both of which feature an XGA (1,024 x 768) resolution, a built-in Ethernet port for remote monitoring and control, an integrated ten-watt speaker and a closed-caption decoder to boot. As for the 83+, you'll find 2,20
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Filed under: Gaming Just a word of warning to Xbox 360 nerds, the Joystiq crew is blowing up coverage at Microsoft's GDC keynote. Yeah, we're technically live there too, but GDC is all about the games so head on over for your live keynote coverage. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsIt looks like at least some of those that got their hands on the Vista SP1 update one way or another got a bit more than they bargained for, with DailyTech reporting that the update process wreaked some considerable havoc on some users' PCs. Specifically, the SP1 update process took it upon itself to automatically a prerequisite Windows Update, which apparently caused some folks' PCs to dive into an "unbootable loop,
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Filed under: Gaming, Household CYBER Gadget is really blowing our mind with this new battery-powered Wii sensor bar. Not only can it detect the motion of your Wii Remote via the magic of infrared, but it can also detect the motion of time as it flows through the fourth dimension. And all for a mere $18? A veritable steal. [Via Oh! Gizmo] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Cellphones iPhone cloners: meet your new king. We're not kidding when we say we even tried fake names and disguises at CES to score an early picture of the DaXian X999 you see here, only to be shot down by the eagle-eyed vendors in the International Pavilion -- but it's out now, baby, and never has KIRFdom been so thoroughly rocked. Not only does the hardware ape the iPhone -- 3.2-inch single-touch QVGA screen, dual 2MP cameras, moti
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Filed under: Gaming, Portable Audio, Portable Video digg_url = 'http://digg.com/microsoft/Games_for_the_Zune'; Looks like games are coming for the Zune after all! Microsoft just announed XNA Studio developers will be able to use the Zune as a multiplayer wireless mobile gaming platform! Details are sparse at this point, but it looks like it's going to be second gen Zunes only, since it was specifically mentioned that it'd take use of the touchpa
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Filed under: Desktops, Misc. Gadgets, Laptops Implicit Networks isn't exactly a household name, but it sure looks like its trying to make itself known with its latest lawsuit, which takes aim at no less than Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Sun and Real Networks (plus semiconductor company Raza Microelectronics). As you've no doubt surmised, the cause of all that litigiousness is some alleged patent infringement by those big name companies, and specifically a
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I basically own three pairs of shoes. One is a pair of flip-flops that I wear around the house like sandals. Another is a fancy pair of dress shoes that I dust off for weddings, bar-mitzvahs, funerals, and schwanky dress-up events. But for everyday wear in professional office environments, during travel, and for general romping about, I keep a pair of 10" Rocky side-zip leather boots on my feet seven days a week. The handy side-zip means tha
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President Bush sought Wednesday to dispel rumors that the U.S. plans to bring "all kinds of military to Africa," saying that is "simply not true."

Ecstasy is back after years of decline with a major pipeline through Canada, law enforcement officials say. Most alarming, they says, is more than half of all ecstasy seized in the U.S. last year was laced with meth. "It's easy to get," one New York teen told CNN.

Barack Obama rolled to his 10th consecutive win for the Democrats, while John McCain picked up two more states in his march to the GOP nomination.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters plans to endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president, two Democratic sources tell CNN.

Steven Kazmierczak had been taking three drugs prescribed for him by his psychiatrist, the Northern Illinois University gunman's girlfriend told CNN. Jessica Baty said her boyfriend of two years had been taking Xanax, used to treat anxiety, and Ambien, a sleep agent, as well as the antidepressant Prozac. She said he stopped taking Prozac three weeks before the Valentine's Day rampage.

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Obama's wins in Wis., Hawaii put Clinton in must-win position for March 4 Barack Obama added Wisconsin and Hawaii to a primary season winning streak that now totals 10 and has put Hillary Rodham Clinton into a virtual must-win scenario in Democratic contests coming early next month in Texas and Ohio .