Just when we were all thinking that gaming was dead on the Mac (aside from some fantastic indie stuff, and World of Warcraft), Valve have announced that they’re going to be heaving Steam over to the Mac. And not just the Steam platform, but future releases from Valve will work on both PC and Mac. Heck, they’re even touting the ability to play a game on the PC then finishing it off on the Mac using their Steam Cloud voodoo.

There’s more detail over at our sister site Gametactics, but I’m quite frankly happy with the slight warm glow of playing Portal on my Mac. I just hope this is a triumph and Valve make a note of this future huge success… Can’t I make Portal jokes!? C’mon!

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Update: Sony Advises not to turn on your PlayStation 3 today. Read statement in story body.

Much to the dismay of many gamers today, anyone owning a first generation (non slim PS3) can not log into the PSN network. While this might not be that bad if you just wanted to play something offline, some offline games are refusing to load. Putting the recently released Heavy Rain causes a crash and a quick boot back to the main menu without any network cord in the PS3 is quite disturbing.

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Heading to stand alone GPS unit soon, Nav N Go is showing off their latest version if iGo: iGO primo at the upcoming CeBIT 2010. With over 30 new features in this new version, if you are headed to CeBIT 2010, you should stop by their booth, if not they also sent along some screenshots from the latest build of the software for you to check out.

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Hate throwing your iPhone or Smartphone on your work desk? Why not charge and have a nice spot for it right on your keyboard? That is what the folks at Matias has come up with. The USB 2.0 Keyboard + Smartphone Stand combines a white keyboard and a nice rubberized spot with usb port for your iPhone/iPod or Smartphone to rest on. The keyboard retails for $49.99 and is available directly from Matias website and soon in stores.
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Bell today announced the launch of Remote PVR, a national service that enables Bell TV subscribers to schedule and manage their TV recordings from their Bell Mobility smartphones or any computer with an Internet connection.

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In a complete surprise move, Apple have announced their tablet, the iPad. Ok, yeah, there was a complete lack of suspense…

The iPad houses a 9.7″ screen in a body that’s just half an inch thick and 1.5 pounds in weight. Does Wi-Fi, 3G, has a 10 hour battery, does the app thing too. Basically, it’s a really big iPhone/iPod Touch, with a bit more grunt behind it, to the point where most of the apps available for the iPhone will work with it already with no further modifications needed by the developers. You’ll also have the ability to dock a keyboard or camera onto it if you really want to replace your laptop.

It comes in 3 main flavours: 16GB for $499, 32GB for $599, 64GB for $699, however that’s just the Wi-Fi version. Add in 3G and you’re talking an extra $130 on each price.

Do I want one? Yes. Do I have a need for one? Not really.

Of course, I may change my mind. Price drop to something small? Next version has extras like a camera or two? Who knows what will make it indespensible to me…

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The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco will play host to a meeting of tech journalists summoned by Apple to see their latest creation on the 27th of January. Wild and rife speculation is for a tablet PC (or a “really big iPhone”, to the luddites out there), although no-one at Apple has directly commented on what it would be.

Well, yes, OK, there was that Apple lawyer whom tried to take down Gawker’s contest to find out more information about this fabled and probably true tablet and in the wording seemed to confirm it’s existence, and the massive amount of legitimate news organisations reporting on it too without any word of denial from Apple, but there’s still no guarantees that when whomever (it might not even be a speech by Steve Jobs, even that hasn’t been officially told either) goes on stage to talk to the press does the grand reveal, that it would end up being the tablet.

Side point – If anyone is able to pay our airfare and can get us into the presentation, that would be fantastic. £2.50 and a Rubik’s Cube doesn’t get me to San Fran…