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E3 2013 roundup: Xbox One, PS4 and more from the big show (video)

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It was a wild few days at this year's Electronics Entertainment Expo. Just think -- nearly a decade after the last generation of consoles was unveiled by Microsoft and Sony, we've gotten our first close-up look at the next generation. Unlike 2012's lackluster showing, the convention floor felt invigorating for gamers waiting on the next reveals for Xbox One and PS4. While Nintendo tried keep steam going for its Wii U, the teams at Oculus Rift and Ouya brought light to the recent rise of indies and startups.

As Engadget staffers board planes for our respective trips back to HQ, we're leaving you, dear readers, with a carefully collated collection of the big show's highlights -- and of course, a number of feature stories and interviews. We've also put together a recap video with Joystiq Reviews Editor Richard Mitchell wherein we recount the show with our best attempts at witty banter. Join us past the break and relive all the virtual magic.

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Sony E3 2013 PlayStation briefing roundup: PS4 takes E3 with $399 price tagSony E3 2013 PlayStation liveblog! Sony PlayStation 4 price: $399Sony DualShock 4 hands-onPlayStation 4 console hardware finally revealedSony PlayStation 4 eyes-onSony announces GTA V exclusive PS3 bundle and headset, coming September 17th for $299Sony PS4 will support used games with no restrictionsThe PS4 won't be region-lockedPS4 now available for pre-order on Amazon at $399 (update: more retailers)PlayStation 4 hands-on: DualShock 4 and games (video)PS4 video reveals UI for sharing gameplay videos, multitasking, making friendsLet's take a closer look at the PlayStation 4, DualShock 4 and PS4 Eye (video)Watch Sony's E3 2013 press conference right here beginning at 9PM ETSony PlayStation 4 gaming roundup (hands-on)Sony to bring original programming to PS4 and PSNRedbox Instant, Flixster to join Sony's own live event streaming service on PS3, PS4 and PlayStation VitaPS4 to require PS Plus membership for multiplayer playPlayStation Plus membership will carry over from PS3 to PS4Sony will launch cloud gaming service for PS3, PS4 and Vita in 2014Microsoft

Microsoft E3 2013 Xbox liveblog!Microsoft announces Xbox One price: $499, launches in NovemberEarly Xbox One buyers to get Day One Edition consolesXbox One Upload Studio lets you share your gameplay vids, live streams through Twitch Xbox 360 gets a One-like redesign, is available todayXbox One games roundup from Microsoft's E3 keynoteProject Spark lets users build game worlds with Kinect voice control and SmartGlassMicrosoft Points from Xbox 360 transfer to Xbox One as real money, 'equal or greater in Marketplace value'Xbox chief: we have a product for people who can't get online, it's called Xbox 360Xbox One SmartGlass hands-on (video)SmartGlass for Xbox One detailed: offers gamers in-game purchases, multiplayer control and gameplay tipsXbox Live to ditch Microsoft Points, switch to local currenciesNintendo

Watch Nintendo's E3 2013 presentation here! (updated)A quick walk through Nintendo's E3 2013 Wii U lineupNintendo sees Mario and Zelda giving Wii U a big boost, 3DS continuing to growNintendo to release its first free-to-play game by March 2014Super Mario 3D World announced for Wii U, coming this DecemberThe Legend of Zelda: the Wind Waker HD launches in October, boasts faster sailingMario Kart 8 launching on Wii U in spring 2014Super Smash Bros for Wii U and 3DS coming in 2014, brings Megaman along for the rideNintendo says Wii Fit U now delayed until DecemberGames and content

Transistor coming to the PS4, Sony doubles down on indie gamesUbisoft E3 2013 liveblog!Hands-on with EVR, a spaceship dogfighting game demo built for Oculus RiftFinal Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts 3 announced for PlayStation 4Ubisoft announces Rabbids Invasion 'interactive TV show' coming to Xbox One Electronic Arts E3 2013 liveblog!EA announces Mirror's Edge 'reboot' for next-gen consoles (video)Star Wars Battlefront game under development at DICE (video)Crytek's CryEngine 3 supports PlayStation 4, surprises no oneSony announces PS Plus edition of Driveclub will be free for a yearQuantic Dream's The Dark Sorcerer demo highlights PS4's graphics powerElder Scrolls Online coming to the PS4 in the springXbox Live will offer two free games per month starting July, includes Assassin's Creed 2 and Halo 3Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain coming to Xbox One, not an exclusiveWorld of Tanks heads to consoles for the first time on the Xbox 360Killer Instinct returns as an Xbox One exclusive titleCrytek's Ryse: Son of Rome demoed for Xbox One, available as launch titleMinecraft coming to Xbox One with expanded multiplayer featuresInsomniac's Sunset Overdrive is our first look at a cloud-infused Xbox One gameNext-gen Halo title announced for Xbox One: runs at 60 fps, available in 2014Respawn Entertainment unveils Titanfall, an Xbox One exclusiveInterviews

EA's CTO Rajat Taneja and COO Peter Moore on plans for next-gen and OriginTalking Frostbite, Battlefield 4 and Mirror's Edge 2 with EA DICE's big boss (video)Sony's Shuhei Yoshida talks Remote Play ubiquity on PlayStation 4, not bundling the Eye with the console Nintendo's Eiji Aonuma on the Wii U's stumbles, Virtual Console support and a 'need to evolve'AMD's Saeid Moshkelani on building custom silicon for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Wii UPeter Molyneux talks next-gen consoles, communal gaming and Oculus RiftPlayStation 4's Shuhei Yoshida on Oculus Rift: We have dev kits, 'I love it'Microsoft's Marc Whitten on all things Xbox One (video)Startups and peripherals

Unu Android tablet / console hands-on (video)Polk Audio Xbox N1 sound bar and 133t gaming headphones eyes-onCreative Labs rolls outSound Blaster EVO gaming headsets with Axx processingNyko PlayPad Pro 2 hands-onNyko's Smart Clip brings the second screen to your controller (hands-on)E3 organizers set the fuzz on OUYA over parking lot cheekinessMad Catz F.R.E.Q. 4D headphones ears-on Mad Catz Arcade Fightstick for Xbox One eyes-on (video)Mad Catz confirms M.O.J.O. Android 'micro console'Mad Catz reveals four new gaming headsets, keyboard at E3Nyko's Xbox One and PlayStation 4 Charge Base peripherals (eyes-on)Nyko reveals new accessories for Xbox One, PS4 and NVIDIA ShieldTurtle Beach outs Xbox One headsets, Call of Duty: Ghosts- and Marvel-branded cansHands-on with the Ouya destined for store shelves Virtuix Omni VR treadmill shows up at E3, we go feet-on (video)AblePlanet's haptic headset adopts Linx Fusion moniker, we go hands-on Oculus Rift HD prototype VR headset appears at E3, we go hands (and eyes) on (update: video)Hands-on with Hyperkin's Retron 5: emulating nine classic consoles with help from AndroidHyperkin teases pixelated SNES-style USB / Bluetooth gamepads at E3 (hands-on)Computers

Dell unveils redesigned Alienware 14, 17 and 18 gaming notebooks, available now from $1,199 (hands-on)MSI's 14-inch GE40 gaming laptop priced at $1,300 with specs to take on AlienwareOther stories

Visualized: SpaceX Dragon capsule at E3LG brings Ubitus' GameNow cloud gaming to Smart TVs in the US Visualized: The lunacy of E3, live from NintendoEngadget-related posts

Engadget and Joystiq's Sony PlayStation pre-event broadcast: live from E3Engadget and Joystiq's Microsoft event wrap-up broadcast: live from E3!Engadget and Joystiq's Microsoft pre-event broadcast: live from E3!We're live from E3 2013 in Los Angeles!

Edgar Alvarez, Todd Thoenig, Benjamin Harrison, Richard Mitchell and Benjamin Gilbert contributed to this feature.

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Magellan SmartGPS review: further proof your phone is the only navigator you need

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Magellan SmartGPS review: further proof your phone is the only navigator you need

When speaking with executives from the Google Maps team earlier this year at I/O, I was reminded that Maps wasn't even a product in 2004. In less than a decade, one of Google's bright ideas has completely and unabashedly transformed the entire routing industry. (Avid readers will no doubt recall this graph, depicting real moves in the stock market moments after Google Maps Navigation was first introduced.) That development, coupled with the explosion in smartphone adoption across emerged markets, has left players like Magellan in quite the predicament. It wasn't that long ago that dedicated PNDs (personal navigation devices) were the gift to get for the holiday season. And indeed, many units from Garmin in particular delighted me plenty over the years.

But the reality today is that PND makers have found themselves redundant. A few have resorted to innovating on the software side and nailing down partnerships with automakers and fleet-management firms in order to keep revenue rolling in, while Magellan has opted to create a new piece of hardware. That hardware, of course, is the SmartGPS. Rather than being a standalone PND suitable for mounting on one's dash or window, the device works best when used in concert with an accompanying iPhone or Android app (sorry, Windows Phone and BlackBerry users). In essence, the company is hoping that by creating a product that extends the functionality of your smartphone, you'll be inclined to hand over $250. After a week of road tripping through the US southwest, however, I'm inclined to believe differently.Magellan SmartGPS review See all photos 20 Photos

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Hardware and user interfaceMagellan SmartGPS review further proof that your smartphone is the only navigator you need

The SmartGPS is actually kind of difficult to wrap one's noodle around. You can use it as a dedicated PND, without any assistance from a smartphone app, but its functionality increases significantly when it has access to an internet connection -- either coming from a MiFi in your vehicle, or via a shared connection over Bluetooth with your phone. The hardware itself is comically large. There's a 5-inch display (with a lowly 800 x 480 resolution), which is wrapped inside of a 3.5- x 6.4-inch housing. What you're left with is something that looks like a slightly shrunken Nexus 7. And when you mount it on your windshield, it's hulking. There's an inexplicable amount of bezel here, and I seriously cannot impress enough just how huge this thing looks when mounted. You can position it so that it isn't in your direct driving field of view, but if you're crisscrossing national parks for a week, it's going to obstruct a lot of awesome scenes.

I finally feel that we as a navigating society are beyond the "stick this massive screen on my windshield" era.

The unit ships with a windshield mount / cradle as well as a cigarette adapter for power. While it worked well enough in practice, it just feels kludgy in today's world of sleek smartphones. For the first time, I finally feel that we as a navigating society are beyond the "stick this massive screen on my windshield" era. There are simply far better (and cheaper) alternatives, which I'll address in a bit.

The display itself is nothing to write home about. The resolution looks pixelated given that a modern consumer's benchmark is a mobile display with Retina-esque quality, and the graphical elements are straight out of the early noughties. While programs like Foursquare and Google Maps have kept pace with UI innovation, the SmartGPS seems to be using a graphical engine from a decade ago. It's simply not pleasing to look at.

UsabilityMagellan SmartGPS review further proof that your smartphone is the only navigator you need

Supposedly, the SmartGPS' standout feature is its ability to interact with other services. In theory, users would sign up for a MiCloud account, where they could sync their preferences as well as upcoming trips and routes while researching things on a conventional computer. Then, once the SmartGPS finds itself an internet connection, everything is pushed right over -- your favorites, your recently found destinations, etc. Moreover, localized Yelp and Foursquare recommendations can be easily accessed as you travel from town to town, alongside up-to-date fuel prices and traffic warnings.

The problem here is how confounding it all is to use.

The problem here is how confounding it all is to use. The setup process is entirely too complex, and if you're considering this as a gift for your mother or grandmother, don't. As that SNL skit once said about Verizon, "It's an old person's nightmare." For everything to come together, you need to install an app on your phone, register for a MiCloud account, register on Magellan's own site, pair your phone with the SmartGPS over Bluetooth, plug in your home's WiFi information and ideally, install and log in to Foursquare and Yelp. Even after all of that, it took my review unit a good while before Foursquare and Yelp information began to trickle in.

Once you're past all of that, you're left staring at a bizarrely complicated home screen. An easy-to-miss scroll wheel atop the display lets you move the map out of the way, where you're blitzed with tiles that continually refresh to show local recommendations and pricing. In theory, it's awesome to have all of this information at your fingertips. In practice, you'll probably kill yourself and a handful of others if you try to use it while motoring. I'm an experienced driver -- I've operated a motor vehicle in all 50 of the United States, and I've driven U-Haul trailers in places that I'm ashamed to admit. But there's no way I'd feel confident ingesting the amount of data that spews from the SmartGPS while cruising down a freeway. Texting and driving is bad enough, but panning across screens and flipping through Yelp reviews is another thing entirely.

You could argue that this information becomes more useful if used while parked, but if I'm parked, I'm going to pick up my iPhone and use an interface that makes sense.

Routing and navigationMagellan SmartGPS review further proof that your smartphone is the only navigator you need

Despite the UI qualms, I still used the SmartGPS to navigate to a number of national parks, hotels and eateries. As a navigator, it works decently. You'll still need to reach out and mash the "zoom out" button to get a better view of where you're headed (no voice commands here), but I will confess that the included speed limit warning is a godsend. It's easy to overlook drops in the limit as you enter new towns, and hearing that "beep" kept me on the right side of the law.

You could argue that this information becomes more useful if used while parked, but if I'm parked, I'm going to pick up my iPhone and use an interface that makes sense.

One of the more impressive attributes is the ability to find a destination using the accompanying app, and then share that with your SmartGPS. This allows whoever is riding shotgun to dial up an address on your phone and instantly shoot it to the SmartGPS. That function did indeed work well, but the search and discovery methods just feel entirely antiquated. The POI database is as robust as you'll find, but it's just not robust (nor personal) enough. Allow me to explain.

Magellan SmartGPS review further proof that your smartphone is the only navigator you need

SmartGPS allows users to search Foursquare and Yelp destinations, as well as those pre-loaded onto the device. But if you punch in half of a hotel's name that's some 380 miles away, you'll probably come up empty. Compare that with the Google Maps app on my iPhone -- while in southern California, I begin to type "hampton inn montrose co." I get to "ham" before Google senses that I'm probably looking to navigate to a hotel I starred last week while using my laptop to scope things out ahead of time. There it is, the second option in the drop-down menu. Boom -- done. Sure, you could save that hotel to your MiCloud list and have the SmartGPS do something similar, but that's introducing a service into my life that I don't already use. And, judging by Google Maps usage figures, I'm guessing a fair amount of those reading this would feel similarly.

The challengeMagellan SmartGPS review further proof that your smartphone is the only navigator you need

I feel for Magellan, I really do. It's trying to hawk a $250 GPS extension to a smartphone app, when the reality is that the phone itself is an infinitely superior navigator. My setup involves an iPhone 4S, an $11 Arkon universal vent mount and a $12 cigarette adapter for USB charging. The Google Maps app is free, and if you're in Magellan's target market, you probably already own a smartphone. Considering that as a sunk cost, you can have a far more powerful, far more personal navigation experience for less than $25 in accessories -- accessories, mind you, that travel more easily than the SmartGPS, and won't obstruct your view of whatever glorious monument is ahead.

While it's capable of displaying a lot of information at once, attempting to parse that while motoring just feels unsafe.

Moreover, using your phone as a navigator just provides a more seamless experience. Even baseline vehicles these days support Bluetooth audio, which allows your phone to lower the music volume when announcing navigational cues, and it means that you're already set up for hands-free calling should someone ring you. The only real argument for a dedicated PND these days is offline navigation, or finding a POI in a place where there's no cellular service. Increasingly, that's becoming a nonissue, but even if you're concerned about such a thing -- how can you beat a $50 Garmin app that enables you to download offline maps of the entire United States?

Wrap-upMagellan SmartGPS review further proof that your smartphone is the only navigator you need

The $250 SmartGPS wasn't built with bad intentions, but it's simply not worth the asking price. The massive size of it obstructs the driver's view, and though it's capable of displaying a lot of information at once, attempting to parse that while motoring just feels unsafe. Beyond all of that, the graphical elements are dated, and the interplay between the device itself and the accompanying app is quirky at best.

To best take advantage of this, you'll need a smartphone. And if you already own a smartphone, you already own the best personal navigation device on the market. Pair that with the Arkon vent mount and a simple USB charger mentioned above, and there's really no need to look elsewhere.

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Distro Issue 95: The past, present and future of gaming converge at E3

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Distro Issue 95 The past, present and future of gaming converges at E3

Over the course of this past week, gaming-minded geeks descended upon Los Angeles for the industry's annual summer shindig. In the latest issue of our slate magazine, we hit the show floor at E3 2013 to offer up impressions of the latest gaming gadgetry. We also chat Wii U with Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma, examine the uphill climb for said console and look back at the history of the entire event. There's loads more of game-centric goodness packed into this edition, so we'll let you get to it via the usual download sources.

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HTC applies for 'Fetch' trademark, tracking device passes through Taiwan's NCC

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HTC applies for 'Fetch' trademark, tracking device passes through Taiwan's NCC

Just what the heck is the HTC Fetch? Well, it's certainly not a phone. In fact, it appears to be some sort of tracking device according to a filling with Taiwan's NCC. Unfortunately, beyond some broad strokes describing the device in a US trademark filing, we're left with only our imagination to figure out how the Fetch might work. Apparently it's a "portable multifunction electronic tracking device for assistance in locating mobile phones, smartphones, cellular phones, portable computers, tablet computers..." The list goes on and on. We do know there's both a hardware (potentially Bluetooth-powered) and software component, and that while there's a lot of talk about finding lost phones or laptops, HTC also sees the potential for "tracking and locating people." Now it's just a waiting game to find out if the company has any intention of actually selling tracking accessories.

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20 Printed Silky Shorts to Wear Instead of Cutoffs

Between Coachella, Govenors Ball, the upcoming Bonnaroo, and Lollapalooza, it's hard not to have some "music festival style" fatigue after seeing countless attendees wearing torn denim cutoffs. (Just ask Chloë Sevigny). For a more polished and even work-appropriate look, silky patterned shorts are a dressy alternative to skirts and will show off toned legs equally well. Try adding a crisp white blouse and a rich brown stacked heel sandal to No. 21's delicate canary yellow floral bottoms for a chic casual Friday outfit. If you prefer a more minimal take on the style, 3.1 Phillip Lim's striped pair is a riff on pin-striped trousers that would be great with simple white tee and black oxfords. An added bonus to many of these styles (like the ones from J.Crew and Zara) is that unlike the short inseams that you commonly see on denim styles, they feature longer lengths to keep you from feeling overexposed. Click ahead to see them all, some of which are currently on sale.


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The Engadget Podcast is live at 12PM!

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Okay, okay, so we're 21 hours late for this episode of the Engadget Podcast. It's been a crazy week, give us a break. The good news, though, is that the gang is all here. Join Tim, Brian and Peter for an early / late wrap-up of the nutty week that was.

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