Buying a laptop case has always been a challenge for a very simple reason: very few laptops share the same external dimensions. This is a problem that goes back to my first two portables – the ...

Welcome back to the GearGames weekly video game release feature here at Gear Diary! Last week was big … this week is bigger, and I think it is time to stop even bothering with the pretense that...

When I heard FrozenByte – the guys who made the games Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds: Survivor – was making a new game I was thrilled and knew I’d want to play it. When I heard it ...

The latest bit of recession-reminder news comes to us today from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: no state added manufacturing jobs in the past twelve months, and 49 of 50 lost jobs. According to...

A new article by Robert Capps at Wired called “The Good Enough Revolution” puts forth an interesting hypothesis: the fundamental definition of Quality has changed from delivering excellenc...

We have all heard stories of flawed product designs leading to rampant failures through the years from different industries. In the video game industry, the XBOX 360 is the pinnacle as a product whos...

One of the banes of being a hardcore PC gamer is the constant hardware upgrade treadmill. Last year a new startup company promised to change that! OnLive technology promised the ability to run the l...

As if the $250 price wasn’t reason enough, Sony has just announced yet another reason to puzzle over exactly why someone should buy their upcoming PSP Go: a special edition Gran Turismo PSP-300...

Back when I was much younger headphones were headphones – of sure there was a wide range of quality, but in general you were getting two padded speakers that clapped over your ears. Later, when...

Next year the Rubix Cube turns 30, so the fact that I was working part-time in a retail department store to support school / books / music / games / friends/ etc when it came out means a couple of thi...