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In a bid to establish the presence of the PlayStation 3 in India, Sony Entertainment is planning on holding a PlayStation Experience on November 24 and 25 at the Taj Land’s End in Mumbai. This event will play out on the lines of E3, only it’ll be dominated by Sony products such as PS3, PS2 and PSP. Also expected in this event, spread over more than 12,000 sq feet are various gaming zones like the Fantasy zone, Action zone, Family Zone, Blu Ray Zone and much more.

Alienware has gotten official with is new Area-51 m15x and m17x laptops, which each pack more power than you will likely need in your choice of two eye-catching designs. The m15x, as you can no doubt surmise, is a 15.4-inch model, which gives you enough room for dual hard drives, along with your choice of Core 2 Duo Extreme processors, NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX graphics, 667MHz DDR2 memory, and plenty of other high-end specs to match. The m17x appears to be identical in most respects, but its 17-inch display also affords just enough room for a third hard drive which, as we had heard earlier, can include SSD if you so choose. Still no word on a release date, but Alienware will gladly inform you of that little detail if you’re willing to hand over your email address.

It looks like Alienware’s decision to announce its latest laptops was hardly an arbitrary one, as it just so happens that NVIDIA has also chosen the date to get official with its new GeForce 8800 GTX and GTS laptop GPUs, which the Alienware systems are based on. Described as the ‘World’s Fastest Notebook GPU,’ the 8800M GTX and GTS are each largely identical, with the notable exception of 96 stream processors in the GTX model, as opposed to 64 in the GTS. Otherwise, you can expect full DirectX 10 support from each, along with NVIDIA’s PureVideo HD engine for your HD decoding needs, up to 512MB of dedicated memory, and NVIDIA’s trademark ‘PowerMizer technology,’ which promises to ‘intelligently’ balance battery life and performance. According to NVIDIA, in addition to Alienware, you can also expect Eurocom, Gateway, and Sager to offer laptops equipped with the GPUs in North America before too long, with a handful of other companies also set to trot out systems in other parts of the world.

Shortly after making a splash at the FCC and getting an official name, Wolfking’s Warrior Xxtreme is finally available to anyone who thinks their fingers are up to the challenge of conquering this beast. Hailed as the ‘world’s first 2-in-1 PC gamepad and keyboard,’ this unit is supposedly geared towards MMO players and features a ‘Blue Moon’ backlight for playing after hours, a pair of USB 1.1 ports, built-in volume control and support for both Macs and PCs. Interestingly, the device will be sold exclusively through Dell (at least through the holiday season), and while the press release claims that you can pick one up now for $79.99, it appears that it hasn’t been added to the firm’s website just yet.

Sanyo says its aiming its latest waterproof portable TV, LVT-WD40, for ‘bathroom and kitchen’ usage. The 4-inch LCD sports a 480 x 272 resolution, and Sanyo claims about six hours of battery life. Unfortunately, while the player can be used anywhere - including being fully submerged in a bathtub - its media capabilities seems to be more limited, since there’s no media compatibility to speak of beyond the standard 1seg TV access. This one’s selling on November 21 in Japan for 50,000 yen ($453).

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