Erno Rubik, the Hungarian professor who created the Rubik’s Cube, has created the successor to the Cube. The new toy called Rubik’s 360 is set to be unveiled at a toy fair in Germany on Feb 5. The new game hopes to once more entertain the public this time featuring six balls trapped within three transparent plastic spheres. The objective is simple and has only one solution but requires skill, dexterity and patience.

Players must get the coloured balls from an inner sphere into matching slots on the outer sphere by shaking them through a middle sphere that has only two holes. Two-time British Cube-solving champion Dan Harris from Norfolk has a review of the Rubik’s 360.

Playing with the USB Missile launcher gizmo attached to your computer may provide a lot of geeky fan but I doubt that your boss will likely give you a great smile. If you’re thinking about buying one of those nerf USB missile launcher gadget to attached to your computer at work and play around with your co-workers, you may still have a chance at justifying the lost man hours to your boss.

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Sony is in all probability planning on the new PlayStation 5 (PlayStation 4 design is probably finished by now). Still PlayStation 2 hasn’t lost it’s touch with the 50th million unit now sold to someone in the US. Those 50 million units is just in the US mind you.

Looks like Sony is not stopping the production of the PlayStation 2 just yet. Although it’s competition, the Xbox, has not been around for quite a while, the PlayStation 2 got sold to about 200,000 customers in November of 2008 alone. One reason for this is most definitely the cost of a PlayStation 2 which is about US$ 130 for a new unit compared to US$ 400 for a PlayStation 3.

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If you’re in Japan and just about planning to buy a Playstation 3 to start staying up late at night. Hold your breath, you may just want to buy this limited edition (10,000 units only) mod called the Yakuza 3. No additional info yet but you can hold your tongue out on the photo courtesy of Akihabara News.

If you’re a computer gamer, you’ve probably come across a lot of gadgets to make life more blissful while playing those PC games. Logitech, known for its keyboards and game pads, has decided to come up with yet another of those gadgets in the hope of making us all happy aside from the G13.

Just came across a pic at Engadget of what seems to be the Logitech G18 gamer’s keyboard. Those keys will surely be programmable. There’s also a tiny display on the gadget — I wonder if that is also programmable.

Of course, you’ll have to be ready to open up your wallet to get hold of those beauties.

Gameloft has inked a deal for an exclusive mobile game licensing agreement with Marvel Entertainment for Spider-man and Iron Man 2.

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When I say the coolest, I mean just that. You won’t have any problems with overheating CPUs if you have one of the Hardcore PC Reator. To solve the heat problem, the motherboard, CPU and GPU has been submersed in oil.

You don’t have to stop at it’s mouth watering looks but this PC comes fully loaded with redundant power supplies and solid state disc drives, Nvidia nForce 790i SLI Ultra graphics unit. Go see how good it looks at this article from Maximum PC.

Richard Garriot, game developer and publisher (of the Ultima series of video games), is now well on his way to visit the International Space Spacestation onboard the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft.

I just loved playing his games especially the video game called The Privateer (wonder if I still have the game and if it will run on Wine. He sure made a bundle selling video games ‘coz I think he paid about 30 million US dollars for the space trip. He’s the very first space tourist who is a game developer.

Did you know that he is actually the son of an Astronaut (I previously didn’t)?

StarCraft is one of those games that had a really good AI engine which makes playing the game so addicting. But still nothing is more exciting than playing it with a real live person (which on occasions happen to be my pc game loving wife)over the network.

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Early Christmas for Aaron G when he snatched the chance to get an early BestBuy offer for the still to be released PSP 3000. The package includes National Treasure 2, Ratchet and Clark and a still measly 1GB Memory Stick Duo. The PSP 3000 offers a brighter and less reflective screen for using the game console outdoors. It also now has a built-in microphone and non-HD video output.

Photo courtesy of Engadget. See some more photos of the unboxed PSP 3000 at Engadget. The PSP 3000 is expected to hit the US stores on October 14, 2008 and we’ll probably see them on eBay and other local online auction sites soon.