During this year’s 2009 Consumer Electronics Show held January 8, 2009, to January 11, 2009, Psyko Audio Labs Inc. was announced winner of the Best of Innovations Design and Engineering award for the headphone category.

Pysko Audio Labs new innovative headset, the Pskyo 5.1 Headphones, competed against 13 other companies to include Audiovox and Plantronics for the title which was awarded January 11, 2009, on the CNET Live Stage at the Sands Expo and Convention Center at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada (USA).

I had a chance to speak with James Hildebrandt, Head Psyko at Psyko Audio Labs Inc., and asked whether or not receiving the award sets a new standard for Psyko’s future products…

Sega has quashed rumors that its first-person shooter based on the Aliens film franchise has been axed by announcing it is will be released in the first quarter of 2009.

This is the second such denial in three months as in November 2008 the game’s developer assured us Aliens: Colonial Marines was still coming out. Gearbox Software President Randy Pitchford issued a statement trying to…

PlayStation Home isn’t getting the best response from PS3 owners since the open beta phase started about a month ago. Sony assures its consumers that Home is still in the beginning stages and that new and exciting features are on the horizon. The Red Bull gaming space, new store fronts and free t-shirts from Resident Evil: Degeneration are supposed to come out this week.

At CES 2009, Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai announced that EA will be breaking into home with the EA Sports Complex.

The complex will let Home users congregate with fellow sports fans and provide…

Halo has gone from being a mere video game to a full scale phenomenon and the engine shows no signs of stopping. Its third installment has sold an amazing 8 million copies and sold $170 million worth of games in the US in its first 24 hours. In his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced two new Halo games will ship this year.

First up is Halo Wars, a radical departure from the first-person shooter heroics that made the franchise famous. Instead, it’s a real-time strategy game and…

Gadgetell is at the International Consumer Electronics Expo 2009, Live Blogging the keynote address by Howard Stringer. Stringer is the Chairman and CEO of the Sony Corporation. Click on over and check out the Sony Keynote Live Blog. Also check out all of Gadgetell’s great CES 2009 coverage. Live Blog [Gadgetell]

It’s fitting that the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) takes place in Las Vegas, because at this show we learn which companies have gambler’s instincts. Sony went all in betting that Blu-ray technology would win the next-gen video disc wars, adding Blu-ray capability to its PlayStation 3 consoles.

Microsoft, on the other hand, hedged its bets with the HD-DVD format. While the console didn’t come packaged with HD-DVD capability, gamers could purchase an add-on drive to upgrade. So at the last CES (2008) when Warner Bros. ended the war by announcing it would no longer support HD-DVD, it certainly looked like a win for Sony.

A year later Sony and Blu-ray still have not garnered that much anticipated victory. One of the biggest obstacles is…

It’s very difficult to have a game that relies so heavily on extra downloadable content such as Rock Band 2 on the Wii after seeing what its PS3 and Xbox 360 counterparts have to offer.

Since the Wii doesn’t have a hard drive, owners have been forced to buy SD cards to store all the extra content they purchase. Nintendo will debut the music store for Rock Band 2 in 2009 and SanDisk is offering a way to store those songs if there is no room in the Wii’s internal memory. It may be a standard 2GB SD card but it is labeled with the Rock Band 2 and…

We shouldn’t count the PC market out of the casual gaming market just yet. This generation has rammed motion controls into our brains courtesy of the Nintendo Wii and Lenovo is hoping to capitalize on the idea.

The company has revealed the IdeaCentre A600 All-in-One Desktop that comes with a controller similar to a Wii Remote. Lenovo even has some games that take advantage of the remote right out of the box. One such bowling game uses the remote to, well, bowl. Lenovo is working on more games to use with the remote but isn’t ready to name any titles yet.

In addition to being a motion-based remote, it will also do a number of every day tasks including…

Yes, we always talk about how game companies should do different things. But when you look at the sales charts, sequels keep raking in the bucks. There’s something safe about the familiar games that always deliver.

Capcom has two such franchises in Resident Evil and Street Fighter and the latest installments of both will be on display at the International Consumer Electronics Show (January 8 through 11, 2008)…

We’ve all been in a situation in which we had to choose which one of our electricity powered devices would be plugged in and which one would go wanting. We’ve resorted to using bundles of extension cords and power strips that can may not be so easy on the eyes when company comes over to watch a movie or play games.

The 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is expected to show off the first products that have done away with all of those troublesome cables once and for all, according to The Observer.

Products such as digital picture frames, speakers and forms of lighting will show off what “WiTricity” is all about.

These aren’t just plain wireless products. WiTricity is the idea of gathering electricity wirelessly, similar to the way WiFi internet…