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New promo video for ASUS N-Series Notebooks makes us want to hug it out May 3rd 2012, 13:28 Nothing stokes the emotional coals like slow-mo drops of water and orchestral strings. That's at least what the team behind this ASUS promo video seem to think. Amidst the melodrama there are actually a few new nuggets of info about the rained-on N-series Notebook. There's "SonicMaster Premium" sound from Bang and Olufsen on board, which the firm claims should please the pickiest of ears, and full HD wide-view screens. A backlit keyboard and fancy touch pad are also shown off, with the latter matching the aspect ratio of the screen for "intuitive control." The claimed (up to) two-week standby time should please the infrequent user, while the impatient will like the two second wake-up time. Whether it'll have Oscar-winning performance to match the video, however, is yet to be known. New promo video for ASUS N-Series Notebooks makes us want to hug it out originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 May 2012 09:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  ASUS (YouTube)  | Email this | Comments Major League Gaming takes smartphone games seriously, announces Xperia Mobile Gaming Arena May 3rd 2012, 13:00 If OpenFeint's lightweight social connections and leaderboards lack the competitive edge your inner hardcore gamer craves, maybe Major League Gaming's latest mouthful will satiate your demands for satisfaction. The Xperia Mobile Gaming Arena presented by Sony Mobile (we told you it was a mouthful) hopes to give smartphone toting gamers a serious cross-platform battleground, offering iOS and Android users competitive leaderboards and up to $10,000 in prizes. Currently the smartphone gaming platform only supports Gameloft's Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation, but MLG hopes to enlist more competitive titles in the coming months. "The MLG community thrives on competition," explains Major League Gaming CEO Sundance DiGiovanni, "with our new mobile platform, we are now enabling gamers to engage in competitive play no matter where they are." Ready to climb that leaderboard? Get your game on at the source link below, or read on for MLG's official press release. Continue reading Major League Gaming takes smartphone games seriously, announces Xperia Mobile Gaming Arena Major League Gaming takes smartphone games seriously, announces Xperia Mobile Gaming Arena originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 May 2012 09:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  Major League Gaming  | Email this | Comments Maingear and Origin now stocking GeForce GTX 690 cards, will probably run Crysis May 3rd 2012, 13:00 Gaming stalwarts Maingear and Origin have casually announced that the duo will now happily sell you a rig packing NVIDIA's beast of a graphics card, the GeForce GTX 690. The $1,000 hardware packs two 28mm Kepler GPUs and is tipped to be the world's fastest graphics card -- unless you work in an NVIDIA testing lab, we suppose. Continue reading Maingear and Origin now stocking GeForce GTX 690 cards, will probably run Crysis Maingear and Origin now stocking GeForce GTX 690 cards, will probably run Crysis originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 May 2012 09:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments This joke isn't funny anymore, SpaceX delays ISS launch... again May 3rd 2012, 12:31 Stop us (oh, oh, oh stop us) if you've heard this one before (you have): SpaceX has announced that it won't be able to make that May 7th launch date. The company hasn't disclosed the cause (the static fire tests seemed to go okay) but spokesperson Kirstin Grantham said that the company is working through the "software assurance process" with NASA. A new launch window hasn't been set, but the company says it'll tell all before the end of tomorrow -- they'd better, since the ISS crew have been waiting for these space-rations since November last year. This joke isn't funny anymore, SpaceX delays ISS launch... again originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 May 2012 08:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  Physorg (AFP)  | Email this | Comments Web Marketplace for Windows Phone gets 22 more stamps in its passport May 3rd 2012, 11:56 If you've been holed up in Thailand, waiting to browse the latest and greatest apps for your Windows Phone in your browser instead of on the device directly, then things are looking up. Microsoft has just announced that 22 new countries are being graces with their own web Marketplace. The full list covers Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela, UAE, Bahrain, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kazakhstan, Israel, Thailand, and Vietnam. The same blog post advises that work is also underway to improve the search results delivered by the site. So you might not have to play Hungry Birds for much longer. Web Marketplace for Windows Phone gets 22 more stamps in its passport originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 May 2012 07:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  Windows Phone Blog  | Email this | Comments

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