I couldn’t think of an “Under Pressure” pun, so just hum the song in your head while you read this and we can pretend I did.

UK researchers Peratech have apparently won the race to create a cheap and effective pressure sensitive touch screen using an electrically conductive material called a quantum tunneling composite. Quantum tunneling is what occurs when electrons are brought together on opposite sides of an insulating barrier. By doing it this way, the sensors Peratech will be ..read the full article

I consider my iPod touch to be another gaming handheld that happens to play music. It’s great for budget gaming on-the-go, I always have it with me, and the number of great games on the platform is ever expanding. In all honestly, it’s my favorite gaming device, and I’m always excited to find new games for the platform.

This is where Doodle Bomb comes in. The game’s developer, Bottle Rocket, has a pretty wide range of great iPod/iPhone offerings, ..read the full article

We’ve finally decided on the ten best wallpapers submitted for the Ripten and Echo1 contest, and now it’s up to you loyal readers (and all you disloyal bastards as well, not that we blame you) to crown the kings and queens of wallpaper making. Or to put it another way, which of the creators do you think most needs a realistic-looking airsoft machine gun that may or may not get them arrested?

Head over to the contest ..read the full article

Retro-shmetmo, the biggest news for gamers out of Microsoft’s CES 2010 keynote was nothing more than a vague timeframe: Holiday 2010. That’s when Microsoft’s 3D webcam-cum-controller Project Natal will debut, according to company executive Robbie Bach.

When it releases next holiday season, Natal promises to allow gamers to simply move their limbs to control on-screen action in selected titles, while a special 3D camera tracks their every movement at thirty frames per second.

But though Bach stated that Microsoft has “been hard ..read the full article

By the time November 2010 rolls around, we could all be residing on the moon, eating space cheese, and zipping around with solar powered jet packs. In the event that doesn’t happen though, we might still have Microsoft’s Project Natal to look forward too.

According to an MCV unnamed source, the motion sensing camera that turns your body into the gaming controller is rumored to have five million units ready for a November 2010 release with fourteen games at launch ..read the full article

Hate sitting on your couch watching your Roomba do all the work? Boring you say? You could get off your ass and do it yourself, but that would require actual work. No sweat. A team of geeked-out developers with cleaning fetish hacked into a few Roomba units and dressed them up like Pac-Man, Pinky, Blinky, and Clyde. Enjoy the power pellet vacuum fest below.

Thanks Engadget

Able Planet’s original intentions were to help those with hearing loss, but they have now decided to enter the mainstream headset world with their sound-enhancing technology. Thus was born the PS500MM headset, designed with PC gaming in mind. The question now is: Is it worth the price?

I replaced my Logitech headset with the Able Planet headset for a good month’s worth of daily use. I have to admit that the sound quality was noticeably ..read the full article

The “anything you can do I can do better” competition between the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Microsoft Xbox 360 for the title of ”Master Swiss Army Knife Console King Toaster Oven” continues as Sony announced their partnership with Netflix on Monday. Remember when video game consoles didn’t cost 500 dollars and just played video games? I do.

Starting next month, PS3 owners (who are also Netflix subscribers) will be able to instantly stream thousands of movies and TV shows from the ..read the full article

With Modern Warfare 2 coming out in a month, we here at Ripten thought it might be just a tiny bit cooler to run around with an actual gun in real life instead of just in a game. I mean, right? That would be cooler, right? Okay, well we can’t actually do that for several reasons, not the least of which is that we just don’t trust ourselves not to shoot people in the face.  That’s what ..read the full article