Just 2% of UK consumers have shown interest in purchasing a 3D Television in a YouGov poll. Just 89 out of 4,199 Britons said they would have interest in buying a 3D-enabled TV in the next 12 months.

According to the Telegraph, consumers between 25 and 34 were “the most likely to say they were planning to buy a set,” with 5% saying they are interested in buying a 3D TV in the next 12 months.

People over 45 were “least likely ..read the full article

Just a little something fun to end the week…

GoNintendo came across the game Geek Mind on the website Dom2D, and it’s really quite simple: a random screen, part of a screen, or box art will appear from a game, and you type in which game it is. Simple!

Of course, there is a timer which ticks down, but as you get answers correct, ten seconds will be added, allowing you to progress further. If you get stuck, ..read the full article

During his time at Comic-Con 2010 in San Diego, Dave “GET SOME” Oshry got some time with Visceral Games’ Dead Space 2 and got some snazzy photos of their Dead Space 2 backpack.

Jed Seigle, CEO of Treehouse Brand Stores, is the man who owns the one and only Dead Space 2 backpack (he operates Visceral Store). However, the backup should be available sometime late this year or early next year, just around the time Dead Space 2 comes out, which ..read the full article

In this edition of RipTen’s Geeked-Out, we got the Super Mario Bros. transformed into zombies courtesy of mrksaari.

Now I’m a huge fan of Super Mario, so anything Mario related totally intrigues me. So when I ran into these pics online, I had to add them to our Geeked-Out posts. The pics are not only cool to check out, but incredibly creative. Props to mrksaari and please check out mrksaari’s flickr page for others pics of Super Mario zombies.

Source: mrksaari via ..read the full article

I have a yearly subscription to Game Informer, and Chris Stead, the Editor of the now booming magazine opened Issue #8 up with quite a well written and well said piece. When I read this it really blew me away because it literally sums up to the point how Microsoft and Sony are too late to the party. In fact, they were less invited then Naughty Bear. Stead writes;

“[Maybe we need a new generation of consoles sooner than we thought] ..read the full article

I love a good deal, and I’m always on the lookout for great games for great prices. Today’s daily deal comes from Gamestop: The “Power Saver Sale” provides up to 50% off both new and used games.

The sale runs from today until August 8th, but you might want to get there early to make sure you can get some of the good titles before they’re gone.

Want to find all the titles on sale? Visit Gamestop’s site for the full list. ..read the full article

You’ve seen the Video Game Cliches We All Wish Were Real, but how many of you knew that on game has made it a reality? This public health announcement video has proven that the real world is much closer to the video game world than we thought.

Please watch the video. Your health will thank you for it.

There, you’ve watched it now, and I can stop alluding and being careful with what I say for fear of spoiling it.

Nintendo had it ..read the full article

That might look like an ordinary AA battery to you, but this is a new concept design for a battery perfect for use in devices like TV remotes and wireless controllers; it can be recharged simply by vibration.

I’ll get the obvious out of the way quickly, to save time on it later: It could go in a dildo, yes. Well done, you’re the wittiest person alive.

Now, on to more serious matters. The battery is recharged by vibrating an attached battery-shaped ..read the full article

Pac-Man and Namco founder Masaya Nakamura are to be entered into the International Video Game Hall of Fame in a few weeks’ time. This comes as a part of the Hall of Fame’s “Big Bang 2010″ event, which will feature tournaments, celebrities, concerts, and a whole lot of Pac-Man.

“We’re going to be focusing a ton on Pac Man,” said Dan Canny, vice president of the IVGHOF board. Unfortunately Nakamura won’t be attending the ceremony, but ““A team of corporate ..read the full article

Yes, you can now dream about your gaming glory days in a bed that looks like a Super Nintendo, but before you get your hopes up, this bed costs $20,000. Yeah, not a lot of us can afford that, but boy howdy don’t we wish. The best part? It wasn’t even made to look like a Super Nintendo. That’s right. Hollandia International made the coolest looking bed in the world by accident.

It was made to be compatible with the Apple ..read the full article

I often wonder about things like how long it would take me to eat a stack of pancakes piled as high as the Washington monument, or how many cookies I could cram into my jacket pockets without drawing the suspicion of movie theater food police.

But alas, I’m just a fat kid that thinks about food a lot — skinny guys like Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski don’t have time to ponder that sort of thing. Instead, they reserve their precious inquisitional efforts ..read the full article

If you’re into lazy days at the beach then this news update isn’t for you. But, if your idea of a fun consists of pwning noobs in online tournaments and winning boat loads of money for your efforts, then Virgin Gaming has got you covered this Summer like a well placed gob of sun screen.

From now til August 8th, Virgin Gaming’s $100,000 Red Hot Summer will pick up the tab on any Madden NFL 10, FIFA 10, and Halo 3 ..read the full article

They say there’s a defining moment in every video game. Assassins Creed had the gameplay, Mass Effect had the story, Goldeneye 64 had the nostalgia and Crackdown, well Crackdown had them damn orbs.

The main collectible in Crackdown was a bunch, actually around 500 of these floating glowing orbs, sometimes placed in the stupidest of places and of course there was an Xbox 360 achievement for collecting them all. Thankfully Unfortunately in Crackdown 2 they made a return, except this time ..read the full article

The Develop Conference is currently running, and we’ve already seen some pretty interesting stories float on out, one of which was that publishers didn’t want to touch PopCap’s multi-million copy selling title Bejeweled. Well another startling revelation has been shot from the Develop cannon, this time with a GameStop speaker at the event saying;

“We don’t like being in the used games business, but we have to be there. We would have to exit the games business otherwise.”

This is extremely ..read the full article

One of the latest episodes of FOX’s “Lie to Me” features a pretty comical (and totally inaccurate) representation of video games. Imagine that.

The situation involved a soldier suffering from post dramatic stress syndrome (PDST) after returning from Iraq. In an effort to “get to the root of the problem” Dr. Lightman and his team make use of some new “virtual reality” equipment said to have been developed via a grant provided by the Department of Defense. ..read the full article

The above picture is what females are likely to do after playing rage inducing games, because at Ghent University in Belgium, no longer do students learn, they just cause sexually based problems! Lotte Vermeulen, a student at the university surveyed 983 female gamers, and her results came back saying girls don’t like games that are too complicated, and when the going gets tough, they just quit and throw the towel in.

Her study also showed women don’t care about social interaction ..read the full article

Daniel Craig may never play the role of everyones favorite super spy James Bond ever again. Due to ongoing financial difficulties within MGM, the producers of the long running spy series. Why is this news on a gaming website then you may ask. Well basically, we might never see another Bond game grace our PCs or consoles, after the upcoming Nintendo Wii Goldeneye redux.

I personally loved Nightfire on the original Xbox console and Goldeneye was and still is one of ..read the full article

Well E3 is long gone into the morning sun, and now all that remains is the cliche post-show hand out of awards. They’re just in and some, if not all are pretty well deserved. So sit back, and have a read of the article and be sure to let us know what you think.

Taking out the “Best of Show” award is Nintendos innovative 3D handheld console that doesn’t require any glasses. The 3DS blew everyone away, and has people the ..read the full article