According to John Koller, director of hardware marketing for SCEA, the PS3 console looks set to ride the 3D wave this year by incorporating 3D-supporting firmware update so that Sony's family of living room entertainment products will play nice with each other, especially the recently announced 3D-capable Bravia TVs at CES 2010. It would be interesting to see whether gamers will adopt 3D gaming as fast as Sony would like them to, after all, doing so would mean selling even more TVs, right?

Are you still in love with Nintendo’s Wii gaming console? You might be getting a new lover from Nintendo sometime in the near future perhaps, as during the Annual Japan Media Arts Festival, Mario creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, mentioned something about Nintendo’s next hardware release, and confirmed that Nintendo was working on some new hardware. Unfortunately that’s all that was mentioned, as Nintendo generally isn’t going to go around sharing information on its upcoming consoles. Hopefully it’s a new upgraded Wii console. Do you have any features that you would want included in the successor to the Wii (not that we’re saying that there is one yet)?

For years, NVIDIA has kept eye on the potential of external graphics accelerators, although nothing concrete is mentioned just yet. Many questions still need to be answered including whether the size of its target market is large enough to make such a venture feasible. While there are many scenarios to be considered, we think that the market is effectively very small. The future of portable computing is definitely not adding stuff via an external PCI-E bus. If NVIDIA sees an market opportunity, it can deliver a product very quickly, after all external GPUs are just like PCI-E based ones. Would you get one and at what price?

The Taipei Game Show sports Gigabyte's most updated docking notebook known as the M1405. On paper, it will come with a 14" TFT LED display at 1,366 x 768 resolution, with Windows 7 as the operating system of choice alongside an Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 processor. Depending on your budget, you can also throw in up to 4GB of RAM and a maximum of 500GB of storage space. While it runs off Intel's GMA 4500MHD integrated graphics, you can also hook up an external GPU for added gaming firepower. No idea on pricing or availability, so expect to see more details on the Gigabyte M1405 revealed in due time.

The Wii might have helped couch potatoes burn slightly more calories than PS3 and Xbox 360 gamers, but it certainly is no substitute for an actual workout in the gym. Sportpong doesn't change the scenario, although it is way cooler than the Wii, being an interactive physical computer game where the whole field will be projected on the ground, and opposing teams "step out" onto the artificial pitch, competing against one another or on a two-on-two. Using your "paddle", you will hit the ball and try to score a goal (or defend, depending on which side you're on). Guess a whole lot of hand-eye co-ordination is required for this e-sport.

No, Duke Nukem Forever is going to remain just that - taking forever to come out, but if you are still a huge fan of this trash-talking, all-action hero, then watching Duke Nukem 3D in action with the Wiimote ought to pique your interest. To make matters more interesting, Duke Nukem 3D is not running on some old computer, but is instead a by-product of Nokia’s N900 (read our review) hacking competition, where we hope to see this endeavor snatch a podium spot.

When introducing you to the Alien Assimilation PS3 case mod a while back, we mentioned that it would be cool if there were a mod that sported a facehugger instead. Where we don’t have a picture of one just yet, we have managed to dig up a PS3 case mod with a chestburster bursting out of a PS3. It certainly won’t make your PS3 play games any better, but it will make your PS3 a billion times cooler than most of the PS3s out there. You might want to consult your significant other if you decide to mimic this though, after all, she might be none too happy to have an alien head sticking out from the side of the PS3.

While Microsoft has yet to release their Project Natal, a prototype of it was recently caught on photo, and we're talking about the Natal's lens system in particular here. It seems to be smaller than what was originally shown, considering the photo depicts the lens system being clipped onto what looks like a Gorillapod. Looking at it makes us feel as though this was a lost eye from one of the Sentinels in the Matrix due to its glowing red color, but hopefully Microsoft will do something about the design before it actually hits the market. Granted, this is a prototype and is far from finished, but a little bit of finesse never really hurt anybody.

In what is probably not the best revelation from Sony, it seems that the company still takes a loss on every Playstation 3 (PS3) sold. While rumors have suggested that Sony has started to make some profit on the sales of the PS3, according to the Wall Street Journal, Sony loses about 6 cents for every dollar of the PS3 hardware sales. Sony is already looking to address this by attempting to reduce the PS3 production cost by 15% by March 2011, so we’ll have to see how that works out. Of course, the bright side to this bit of news is that the Playstation 3 sales were up by a good 44% year-on-year.

Hmmm, have TV channels really advanced to such a state where there is this thing called Tetris TV? Apparently so, as DISH Network has teamed up with Oberon Media and The Tetris Company to bring such a cutting-edge interactive TV game service. As you can tell, Tetris TV enables viewers to enjoy a game of Tetris using a few clicks of their TV remote, and while North America is the first continent to enjoy such a service, expect other countries worldwide to receive a similar service in due time as well. You will be able to enjoy Tetris TV on DISH Network in the form of Marathon and 40-Lines Tetris games. Tetris TV is currently available to all DISH Network customers for $2.99 monthly. [Press Release]

Hori is an old hand at gaming peripherals, and their latest foray has resulted in the Real Arcade Pro Premium VLX series. This is one really huge arcade stick which harks back to the days of yore, and it will hit Japan later next month for the Xbox 360 as well as PS3 for approximately - are you ready for it - $330 a pop, placing it out of reach of those who thrive on impulse purchases. Each purchase will be accompanied by arcade-standard Sanwa buttons and joystick, where you can flip up its panel to access its wires as well as additional button storage. Since it comes with such a handsome price tag, would you still slam it in frustration whenever you lose a match?

Now this is a merry bunch if we ever saw one - an SNES that is controlled by a Sixaxis controller alongside the Nokia N900 QWERTY handset. Thanks to Tomasz Sterna, he recompiled the kernel to add joystick as well as mouse support. Just make sure your N900's Bluetooth connectivity is turned on, where you can return to the world of 16-bit gaming in full Mode 7 glory. What are some of the other mods that you would love to see which merges both today's and yesterday's technologies?

Microsoft just announced that they will no longer be offering Xbox Live services on the original Xbox from April 15th onwards. This means that from that day onwards, all of the original Xbox games - as well as those that see action on the Xbox 360 as well as over the Xbox Originals service, will no longer be able to have a lease of life online. One of the main reasons would be Microsoft evolving their Xbox Live service which could no longer make allowances for games on Microsoft's first console.

Word has been going around that Sony’s upcoming motion sensing PS3 controller would be called the Playstation Arc, and now THQ President, Brian Farrell, has confirmed this to the world. It came up while he was speaking during a conference call, and stated:

"Turning to kids, family, and casual, we are focused on our continued leadership in this category, taking advantage of the lower hardware price points that we expect will attract new mass market gamers and new family-friendly platforms such as Microsoft's Natal and Sony's Arc motion controller."

While it’s not an official confirmation from Sony, it’s still good to know that it’ll be called the Sony Arc. What do you think of its name?