The catastrophe in Japan is affecting everyone, including the gaming community. Companies have already started to donate millions of dollars to aid Japan and there doesn’t seem to be any lack of donations in the future. If you want to help, there are a few things you can do thanks to some of your favorite websites and developers. Through tomorrow, for every game purchased through Direct2Drive, the company will donate $1 to Japanese disaster relief. Many companies (a full list can be found here) will even match that donation. Bungie is currently selling a special blue

The quake and the tsunami disasters that rocked the whole of Japan, seems to have made a dent in the iPad and iPhone 4  terrain too. With the catastrophe affecting the overall scenario in the Asian nation, component makers have also been forced to go in for a shut down for at least some time. Considering that Japanese companies contribute immensely in the making of the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4, the closing down of companies such as Toshiba’s LCD plant and Mitsubishi Gas Chemical for a month need to be seen as affecting Apple’s plans. The suspension in activities could bring

Steve Jobs generally takes plenty of stick from the media for not being the most magnanimous guy on the planet. Many in fact will tell you that he cut out the philanthropic wing of Apple moment he stepped in and took over the top spot. Of course, there are also the inevitable comparisons with Bill Gates and all his charity work. But it seems the guy has just come out and done something real classy. Jobs has just sent an email to all Apple employees conveying his sympathy for all that has been happening in Japan and offering support to those who have loved ones affected by this

The Prime Minister of Japan has decided to open a new Twitter account in English that will give official updates from the earthquake struck regions and will let the world know about the latest in relief efforts that are currently in progress. This seems a very wise move on the part of the administration as much of the world is anxiously glued to what is happening in Japan and the extent to which relief and rescue measures are reaching those in need. The @JPN_PMO Twitter account has already gained more than 7000 followers in just the first hour and obviously that number will

Earthquake and tsunami have taken their toll on the land of Japan and while that has been disastrous enough, there is bigger trouble on the horizon with over-heated nuclear reactors that are threatened to go unstable. Plenty of work as been put in by those at the reactor sites and authorities to cool the reactors and while the threat of radiation leaking out of the 6 reactors became real all too soon, things are slowly starting to seem less dangerous. The image of the overheated nuclear reactors has been provided by Google Earth and GeoEye (Cnet) and workers have been on duty

If this doesn’t show the popularity of the 3DS nothing else will. As expected, the Nintendo 3DS launch in Japan was a gigantic success. How many were sold? 400,000 handhelds were purchased on the first day of sales. Almost every sale was from a pre-order and the 3DS price tag is not a factor to them over in Japan. Nintendo will refill the stores though. Nintendo has plans to have 1.5 million units available by March.  

If by any chance you get to visit Japan, actually Tokyo, sometime next year, promise us you’ll be search for one of those high-tech taxis that have been blessed with a WiFi connection or if you’re lucky, with a PSPgo console to play with. Mobile carrier DoCoMo and taxi operators in Tokyo have entered a partnership that will change 920 cars into a geek heaven. 820 of them will have onboard free Wi-Fi so that you can connect your mobile phone or laptop, keeping up with friends while on the go, while the rest of them will come loaded with PSPgo consoles that will make the trip

Microsoft can never breathe easy these days and it isn’t just Apple which poses a threat, but the fortune of its new creations is also a huge criterion. Just when MSFT would have been smiling about the steady development of its Windows Phone 7 mobile OS comes the news of the lame response its novelty Kinect is receiving in Tokyo, Japan. The gaming crazy nation was expected to receive the gesture gaming outfit in a much more exciting manner, but the fanatics have been relatively unmoved by the presence of Kinect in their country, which definitely is very unlike Tokyo. Although

Sony has announced that it will stop manufacturing and selling of the cassette Walkman in Japan; that is 30 years after the portable music revolution took the world by storm. Of course, this has led to the news being spread that this is indeed the ‘Death of the Walkman’ and R.I.P messages for the Sony walkman have been doing rounds. But not so fast, says Sony in the US. According to Sony Spokesman in US (who did not wish to be named for obvious reasons), the Sony Cassette Walkman will continue selling in US and the UK for a while. The message of “Production finished” for

Rumors about an iPhone that is compatible with Verizon Wireless’ network have been rampant for months. Now, new reports are suggesting that the CDMA iPhone 4 is coming to Verizon in early next year. According to a research analyst, Apple is on schedule to launch an iPhone capable of making calls on Verizon’s network in early 2011, most likely in March. Although we do not have an exact launch date, the device is likely to be launched sometime around the now rumored date. But the analyst has also revealed that Apple has other bigger CDMA plans. According to the analyst, the