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Nyko , proprietor of fine gaming peripherals, showcased several new items at CES. For the Wii we have the upgraded Wand+, the Type Pad wireless keypad, the Perfect Shot pistol grip attachment, and the Charge Base Quad charging station. We also have a media hub for the PS3 Slim, and a new personal headset/speaker combo for the Xbox 360

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Nyko gaming accessories

Some people really get into racing sims and Logitech wants to tap that market with the G27 racing wheel.

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The Logitech G27 racing wheel is $299 worth of realism

Microsoft will raise the price of the Xbox 360 in the UK in order to “counteract the poor pound-to-Euro currency exchange rate.” UK gamers will have to pay £159.99 ($260) for the Arcade model, up from £129.99 ($211). On top of that, the five Xbox Live Arcade games won’t be included in the bundle any more. Now, why Microsoft use this as an opportunity to throw in a small-ish hard drive, assuming that the Pro model is, indeed, phased out , leaving only the Arcade and Elite

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Hey, UK, get ready for an Xbox 360 price increase

Still can’t find a Wii at your local Toys R Us or Gamestop? Head on over to the dollar store and pick yourself up a Zone wireless gaming system! This $30 wunderspiel includes either 7 or 80 games, depending on which package you buy, although it’s unclear whether the controllers are in any way motion-detecting. I’m guessing no

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Sweet faux Wii has “real time action graphics”

I recently sat down with the king of gadget modders, Benjamin J. Heckendorn.

Ben recently spoke at the Games for Health conference here in Boston, where he talked a bit about his Access Controller, which was born from a request for a controller that could be used with one hand by a soldier who had lost his arm in combat.

Heckendorn also brought up the idea that Microsoft ought to make a “Brain Box” available for the Xbox 360, which would enable people to make their own controllers without having to deal with licensing issues. Microsoft would still make money by licensing and selling the Brain Box, while hackers and modders would be free to create unique controllers like the Access Controller without having to go through the expense and legal trouble of getting the controllers approved for retail sale. Sort of a standardized peripheral concept, if you will.

Facebook vanity URLs may not be here just yet, but that isn’t preventing startups from readying offerings that aim to complement them (or you could say piggy-back on them).

Assetize, for one, is readying its account username marketplace for the highly-anticipated-in-some-circles unique addresses. Coinciding with the impending introduction of unique Facebook URLs for the masses (at 12:01 AM Eastern Time tonight), Assetize will enable users to buy and sell them much like you can with regular website addresses on so-called domain name after-markets. The startup already provides the same service for a variety of other accounts, such as Twitter, Gmail and Ning, and will now be adding Facebook to its roster.

As Facebook noted in its blog post announcing the upcoming availability of the unique addresses, it’s not possible to change or transfer vanity URLs. This doesn’t pose a problem, says Assetize, because you’re still able to buy and sell ‘access’ to the account, i.e. your login credentials.

In related news, SocialToo is jumping on the Facebook vanity URL bandwagon too, by offering its users a way to get a bunch of analytics on their Facebook profiles, like which browsers visitors to the account are using, where they’re located, and where they’re clicking from (if available). All a user would need to do is register for the service, click on the link to get a special code from Facebook, provide the code along with a SocialToo username and password (the username will be what their vanity URLs will be based on), and click submit. Next time they log in, they’ll see a new “SocialStats” tab with statistics for their URL.

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E3 starts next week, and while I’ll be celebrating by, I don’t know, listening to Ron and Fez all day long, Peter, Devin, and Greg will be rubbing shoulders with celebrities like Adam Sessler and the girl who used to host “Cheat.” One thing the guys might run into in between chatting up G4 production assistants: SplitFish ’s new controllers, the Dual SFX Evolution and Dual SFX Frag Pro.

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SplitFish’s FPS-specific Dual SFX Frag Pro will be at E3 next week

It’s been a while since Akai introduced the APC40, a controller for Ableton Live. In 17 days the APC40 will be available worldwide .

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Akai launches APC40 website

Windows Home Servers are great. Really, they are.

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DIY: Convert a NAS into a Windows Home Server