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Well it didn’t take long. Not even realised in this country and already someone has pulled apart an xbox360 to show you the insides.

I look forward to ownership but heck! that power unit really is a monster.

So I saw this story (and pictures) today of the new controllers for Nintendo’s up and coming ‘Revolution’ console. They really are the trail-blazers when it comes to this stuff. I only imagine how cool this thing is to use. Here’s a paragraph from the story linked to above.

Nintendo breaks with more than 20 years of video game history by abandoning the traditional controller held with two hands and introducing an all-new freehand-style unit held with one hand.

Can you imagine sony or Microsoft making such a bold move? I can’t wait to give it a try.

Here’s a link to some Xbox 360 game trailers in high definition. I’d been looking for some game trailers to wet my appetite for a while. They’re all pretty hefty downloads, but worth the wait I’m sure. I have only downloaded the Ghost Recon file so far, and it looks amazing. If this is what the real in-game graphics will look like then it’s mind blowing.

They unveiled the new version of the xbox on Friday night. Named ‘xbox 360‘, it is effectively a new improved xbox .. on nitrous. Just reading the figures (and I don’t even understand most of them) makes my mouth water. I imagine we, for the first time will be playing gamed that really are like movies. All that added power; Three symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each plus all the graphic hardwear means they have created a machine that is akin to the supercomputers of only a few years ago. I look forward to seeing some fo the games in action, I heard that EA having been developing games for up to 2 years in preparation.

As a side note off topic, what the hell are MTV.com playing at not supporting mac users with their movie trailers, poor show.

Freshen up your gaming room with this high quality Nintendo Air Freshener. It doesn’t plug into anything, and you can’t control anything with it either. For 4$ you can own the latest in retro madness.

The president of games giant Nintendo has said he fears for the future of the industry and has warned that it must innovate or die.

The DS was unveiled in Los Angeles Satoru Iwata told BBC News Online that the industry had become obsessed with faster processors and better graphics.

Nintendo of Japan president Satoru Iwata quoted “We are developing a new home video game console with a plan to release the new system around the same time as rival makers do,” said Iwata. “The PlayStation 2 debuted one-and-a-half years ahead of the GameCube” “If we had launched the GameCube at the same time as PlayStation 2, the result would have been different…. ” More news when I here or see it.

This is the result when installing one of the Afterburner kits from Triton Labs. Amazing. You just need a soldering iron and some patience.

UPDATE: I have purchased one from the uk distributor.

Check it out, the gamecube just became competitive Read it here