Electronic Video War Games

Sporting the size of a traditional remote control, the wireless Wii Remote is a multifunctional device that is limited only by the game designer's imagination. In a tennis game, it serves as your racket you swing with your arm. In a driving game, it serves as your steering wheel. For first-person shooters, the Wii Remote acts as your weapon that you point at an enemy. The list of potential uses goes on and on.

In addition to its pointing and motion-sensing abilities, the Wii Remote also includes a speaker, rumble feature and expansion port for additional input devices, such as the Nunchuk.

360 Reasons to Love Xbox 360

For more than a month, TriXie, your Xbox.com community diva, has been slaving away on a list to celebrate the first anniversary of Xbox 360™, gathering 360 reasons why Xbox 360 is the most amazing entertainment platform in the world. After an epic effort, headaches, eyestrains, and enough caffeine to power a small island nation, intrepid TriXie triumphed, and even exceeded expectations. Here then, are more than 360 reasons to love your sexy Xbox 360.

Mac OS X and the Apple platform

For end users, the Mac is an extremely stable, highly graphical, and easy-to-use platform where “everything just works.” The story for developers is very similar. The Unix foundation of Mac OS X—along with its powerful native application environments, modern Java implementation, cutting-edge development tools, and support of open source and open standards—make it a powerful, stable, and versatile development environment, capable of supporting development for multiple deployment targets. The performance, style, and innovation of Apple hardware completes the picture, and distinguishes the Apple platform as ideal for developers, systems administrators, media creators, and other technical professionals.