Now, Sony isn’t making a move with the PlayStation. They are making you move with the PlayStation Move.

At this week’s San Francisco’s Game Developers Conference, Sony announced the new Move controller. It’s basically the company’s answer to the Wii Remote (or Wiimote). It took them a few years. However, Sony says this will crush all competitors, because it’s especially precise. That means all of your flailing should translate into game moves pretty darn quick.

Using the Sony Eye gaming webcam, the controller specifically works with the PlayStation 3 for high-def gaming goodness. The package will include the camera, one game and the Move, which looks like a more colorful Mr. Microphone. All of that should be priced under $100. The Move controller operates on wireless Bluetooth and features a built-in lithium-ion rechargeable battery.

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Live like an adult, play like a kid! A ton of us fondly remember the tabletop arcade games of the 80s and have probably entertained the idea of having one in-house now that we’re all grown up. Of course, much like action figures, the classic arcade table would stand out like a childhood dinosaur in a room of adult decoration (and may be a hard sell for your Crate & Barrel loving girlfriend). Someone over at Surface Tension likely had a similar thought and put the ingenuity forth to create a modern styled coffee table with arcade games — and more! — delightfully hidden inside.

With the Arcade Coffee Table built exactly to your needs delivery may take a couple of months, but it looks to be worth the wait. Each arcade game table is fully equipped with solid retro-gaming components (fully customizable in any colors you’d like), ready to go for both one and two players (and if your buddy isn’t around, you can always look for a second player online) and stocked with 29 games; if the bundled bits aren’t enough for you, the table is MAME-compatible so you can add whatever retro games you’d like! The table conceals a Dell PC to power all of your favorite goodies — including iTunes (ready to stream wireless to your speaker system with AirPort), Firefox for web surfing, Apple QuickTime to view movies, Windows XP Picture Viewer to flip through all of your photos, and ports to connect all of your peripherals.

The table comes in three different finishes — brushed, glazed and grain — for a hefty £3295 directly from the manufacturer (for Americans, basically double that price for the dollar conversion with the exchange rate as it is these days) you can add one of your own to the living room. What price making your friends green with envy, right?

Yes, we’re on a bit of a game kick this week, but ’tis the season to dust off your favorite games as friends and family come home to roost (and get their butts kicked). If your life is dotted with music afficionados or you happen to be a bit of a music snob yourself, the iNo could keep someone unbearably smug… or might knock them off their throne.

Here’s how it works — iPodders gather around and plug their own iPods into the central iNo dock where each player takes turns queuing up songs from their playlists. The other players, using one of four wireless remotes to “buzz” in, do their best to guess the name of the song, artist or album (pick your poison) til the group can’t take it anymore and the player with the highest score makes off with the Music Genius title. The iNo unit features a built in speaker, color coded remotes with matching LED scoreboards, and comes ready to play with iPod connectors for you and your foes — and when you’re not in the playing mood, it’ll sit there quietly and charge up your iPod. Sad word of caution though: for some reason the designers only thought to make the iNo compatible with the 30GB, 80GB, and Nano iPods, so any other models aren’t allowed to play. Still, for $79.99 from Target, it’s a great game buy that’s only available online (so don’t bother scouring through your local store, they just won’t have it).

You’re no casual gamer satisfied with $30 controllers while sitting on the couch, right? Ok good, because otherwise you’d just think this was… indulgent.

If you’re serious about racing games and want the real driving experience without having to endure the arcades, it’s time you met the Evolution. According to Henning Solberg of the Ford Rally team, “It’s the best car game accessory ever made, even I can use it for training and it really gives you a feeling of actually being in the car.” it’s so good, in fact, that the Dutch A1 racing team is an official sponsor and uses it with all of their drivers.

With its totally renewed design and double stitched black/white vinyl seat (that easily folds for storage), the Playseat Evolution is made of fully adjustable oval piping steel construction and is compatible with all of the major gaming and computer consoles, including their accessories like racing wheels, pedals and shift lever sets (or you can go one better and buy some official Playseat accessories to complete the package). Available for £229, get ready to make your friends green with envy.

Sony, surely feeling some Nintendo heat (Wii is still outselling the PlayStation 6-to-1), has finally dropped the pricing on their current PS3 model, making the 60 gig wunder-toy available immediately for $499. Be on the lookout next month for an 80 gig version for $600. $100 for another 20 gig? Yeah, but you also get a copy of MotorStorm, so enjoy your expanded drive and cliff-flying driver simulation game.

The excited press release also promises more than 120 new software titles to be delivered this year (just in time for the holidays, we’re sure), including titles like a new Dynasty Warriors, Grand Theft Auto IV, SOCOM, and Tom Clancy spinoffs. Additional games and services will be developed for release through the PlayStation Network including PlayStation Home, a “state-of-the-art 3D online community that serves as a meeting place for PS3 users around the world, as well as numerous downloadable games including the highly-anticipated title PAIN.”

With this announcement, and that of Yahoo’s new networking service “Mosh” in the rumormill, looks like everyone’s trying to capture the online social networking model-to-money. Good luck!

Illuminate your Nintendo Wii with the Wii Crystal Cooler. A special stand which not only adds a high velocity fan to the underside of your console, but also adds extra-bright blue LED illumination around the base of the system, giving it an otherworldly glow.

The device has two main functions, to cool down your system when in standby or in use and more importantly to make your console look cooler than any of your friends plain old white Wii’s.

It retails for a modest $19.00 at Brando.

Thinking about heading out for a walk, a run, or a trip to the gym for a workout to burn some calories? Instead of doing any of these tedious activities, wouldn’t you prefer sitting down (or standing), and playing video games? I sure know I would.

In the May edition of Wired they propose gaming instead of other forms of exercise – some of their comparisons are astounding.

My Nintendo Wii should be arriving very soon (I won it thanks to Uneasysilence a few weeks back). Will gaming replace conventional exercise for me? I don’t think so – but it’s sure cool to know when I’m gaming I’ll be exercising.

UPDATE: 10 Radio Station Employees Fired

We all know that the Nintendo Wii can be dangerous but, now it seems they are inadvertently killing people. On Saturday a woman was competing in a terrestrial radio station contest to see who could drink the most water without having to go to the bathroom in order to win a Nintendo Wii. The 28 year old woman wound up drinking so much water that she in fact died from water intoxication.

The contest held by KDND 107.9 was cleverly named “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” where contestants were handed eight-ounce bottles of water to drink every 15 minutes. The Howard Stern show has since reported that the KDND radio show has since been suspended because of the unfortunate death.

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As we have seen before playing Nintendo Wii can get a little intense. Now you can make sure that your Wii controller will stay firmly in your grip with the new Wii skid proof glove. No longer will you have to worry about throwing your remote through your TV, window, or your buddies face while playing an intense game of Wii Bowling.

Only days after the release of the new Nintendo Wii, the mother of a seven year old girl claims that while playing Wii Sports Bowling her daughters’ safety wrist strap broke. Upon breaking off her wrist the rogue controller flew straight into the television leaving it with quite the war wound. Who knows what really happened but I would not be surprised if this is possible. If not this time it will surely happen a few years from now when those straps get older, more brittle, and get chewed on by the family cat a few times.

I can not imagine that Nintendo did not thoroughly test their safety straps but, I wonder if they really abused the remotes like they should have. People are animals, you have to expect that people are going to play these things way too hard. A couple of guys drinking in a dorm room while playing a round of bowling could easily wind up firing a hole in their wall, one that they will no doubtedly spackle with some white toothpaste the next day.