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By and large, EA Sports’ Season Opener event here at GDC was underwhelming, but one glimmer of newness did manage to shine through. Nearly a year after Active hit stores (video after the break) and encouraged Wii gamers to drop those unwanted pounds before hitting the soft sand in the summer, the company has announced that Active 2.0 (a working title) is currently in development for Wii, PS3, iPod touch and iPhone.

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EA Sports introduces Active 2.0 at GDC, complete with sensors galore

We’ve seen “real” guitars made to “work” with existing music-band titles, and we’ve even seen MIDI guitars play nice with Rock Band, but we’ve yet to see a company design a game from the ground-up to work with a legitimate six string. Until now. Here at GDC, Seven45 Studios is making a name for itself by introducing Power Gig: Rise of the SixString (for PS3 and Xbox 360) along with a bona fide axe.

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Seven45 Studios ups the ante for music games, intros fully functional six string controller

Having filled our business laptop lust with a T410 undressing yesterday, today we’ve come across a comprehensive teardown of Alienware’s gamer-friendly M11x ultraportable.

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Alienware M11x gets torn down, earthly components found inside

As Microsoft prepares to pull the plug on online gaming for the original Xbox, it’s decided to act benevolently toward the undoubtedly grief-stricken Halo 2 loyalists and has rewarded them all with some consolation prizes. A free three-month Xbox Live membership awaits, accompanied by 400 MS points and a place on the Halo: Reach beta, should you wish to accept it. For a console that’s nearly a decade old, it’s understandable that online gaming support would’ve had to end at some point, so you might as well just transfer all your energies into being a good guinea pig / tester for Microsoft’s latest cash cow

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Xbox Live termination ends in a consolation goodie bag for Halo 2 owners

For whatever reason, Android’s high-performance Native Development Kit introduced back in the Cupcake days never got a ton of attention despite the subtle hints that it’d give devs the low-level access they needed to create killer, graphically rich, immersive environments ready to compete with pretty much any other gaming device you could shove in your pocket.

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HyperDevbox ExZeus Arcade allays fears that Android games are destined to suck

We’ve talked up Mad Catz’s Cyborg Rat before — and even given it the hands-on treatment — but even still, we thought it’d best to show you with the power of moving pictures all the crazy functions of this Franken-mouse (that’s pronounced “Fronk-in-mouse,” thank you very much).

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Mad Catz Cyborg Rat: a guided tour (video)

The early belief that the PSN was spreading a brickitis infection to PS3s around the world has turned out to be not quite accurate.

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The apocalyPS3 ends in global resurrection, ARM chip at fault

PC gaming headsets aren’t really something you think of when the word ’stylish’ comes up — in fact, you can usually file them somewhere after fanny packs and parachute pants for style points.

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Sony outs good looking PC gaming headsets

It’s CeBIT time again kids; a chance for the world’s vendors to show off much of what was already unveiled at CES in Las Vegas to Europeans for the first time publicly (what, the internet’s not good enough?). Just announced in Germany is a trio of N-series laptops — N43, N63 and N73 pictured above — with USB 3.0, Intel Core processors, and Bang & Olufsen ICEpower audio that seems to contradict itself by offering affordable, yet “unflinching” audio quality. ASUS also unveiled its VG236H and PG276H Full HD 3D displays to augment its 3D laptops .

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ASUS debuts Bang & Olufsen ICEpowered N-series laptops and 3D gamer displays