IGN have covered the new Super Mario Galaxy 2, and their review shows some interesting aspects about the game’s design. The review was based on a playable demo shown at Media Summit in San Francisco.

According to them, Super Mario Galaxy 2 is basically the same experience, but expanded in every aspect. There are new gameplay mechanics, of course, but apart from them the game doesn’t immediately strike you with anything obviously new.

That shouldn’t be taken as a negative aspect though, as the game

The Acer Aspire 1820PT was revealed at the end of an Acer press conference, and now Engadget have managed to get one to review hands-on. What they’re saying is not far from the expected, read on to find out what’s in store for you.

The laptop features a firm, sturdy design, according to Engadget – the hinge is very strong, yet smooth, and there’s an accelerometer for when the laptop is in tablet mode. It also supports capacitive multitouch, as well as using the stylus for input. The stylus

55.5 inches of 1080p goodness would draw attention in any case, but when they're supplemented with local dimming of an LED-backlit display, 6ms response time, a stonking 4,000:1 static contrast ratio, and an integrated Blu-ray player... well, our cup runneth over with interest. The BeoVision 7-55 is just such a monstrous, no-compromise display, and it's recently undergone a review over at Flatpanels HD. The reviewers were giddy with the versatile motorized stand and the Blu-ray player (which opens by you waving a hand in front of it), while describing the design and

You know what can't be easy? Making a netbook stand out amongst the hordes of them out there, and yet despite run-of-the-mill specs Fujitsu's done just that with the MH380. Maybe it is the rounded red lid or the small crater in its palmrest that doubles as a scroll pad, but the $449 netbook has struck us as more than just another Pine Trail netbook ever since its appearance at CES. We'd like to take that at face value, but given the fact that Fujitsu doesn't have the best netbook track record, we wanted to spend some quality time with it to find out if the 10-inch

Why have two gadgets when you can have one that does two things? The answer, of course, is when that one thing doesn't do either of its two tasks well -- the Jack of All Trades Syndrome. When Sherwood told us last year it was making a receiver that had built-in network playback capabilities, meaning we could ditch our media streamers (tiny though they may be), we were naturally stoked. Many months on we've finally had a chance to put one through its paces and, if you click through, you can read our impressions of this slim and uniquely styled audio/video receiver -- and

Kingston's SSDNow V+ series is hitting the streets, and bit-tech.net has put it, and its new Toshiba controller, through the wringer. That new silicon offers TRIM support in Windows 7, intended to remove any lingering fears of performance degradation, and this drive has been graced with 128MB of internal cache to conquer random read and write performance. In general the review finds that the controller does its job and TRIM'd deletes don't have a major affect on performance, but there still was some degradation after 1TB worth of writes and deletes. Beyond that the

AMD ATi has announced their latest DirectX 11 capable video card, the ATi Radeon HD 5570. It is part of the budget-range 5500 series targeted specially at HTPC setups. It has been specifically designed for fitting in low-profile cases. It supports 1080p HD output through HDMI 1.3a with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.

More details below.

The varied output options – HDMI, DVI and VGA, make it an ideal option for an HTPC. ATi says you can also get some gaming performance out of the HD5570 as it apparently

It's been a few months since Micron became the second to introduce the world's first SATA 6Gbps hard drive (Seagate was the other), and regardless about who was earliest we now know which is currently the fastest. TweakTown put a Crucial-branded C300 through its paces and came to a rather simple conclusion: "At this point in time there is no other drive, platter or solid state that is in the same league as the Crucial RealSSD C300." It blitzed through all their tests and at the end, when others would be a smoking ruin of high access times, it still performed as good as

Windows Mobile 6.5.3 debuted yesterday with the Sony Ericsson Aspen. Now we see yet another smartphone running the new software in the form of the Garmin ASUS M10. Unlike the SE Aspen, the M10 is one of the first to be caught in the flesh. Two Chinese sites were able to get their hands on the phone and put it through its paces. Let see what they found out.

Garmin-ASUS’s last attempt at making a phone, the M20, didn’t do really well when it came to reviews. But the new one, according to the reviews, is much better

When you think back to the dark ages of the nineties -- just four terrestrial channels and the inevitable snowflakes on your screen if you were in a poor reception area -- it just wasn't a very good time for free television in the UK. Fast forward to today, and dirt-cheap Freeview boxes are getting their inevitable, in fact somewhat belated, upgrade to HD. The Humax HD-FOX T2 will cost a predictably hefty £170 ($270) at launch, but as its kind starts to infiltrate the market that price should suffer an equally appropriate precipitous fall. Offering decent media