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PlayStation Eye Tank War Demo Is "Next Gen" Tech
We've seen videos of Sony's Tank War Demo for the PS Eye before, and they looked intriguing. But after having a hands-on today, I'm really excited over the simple tech demonstration. More »
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10:00 AM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Mark Wilson
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User-Drawn Characters Coming to PS3 Games?
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting, though sort dated, article on their site today about the increasing popularity of unusual, and simplistic controller for gaming.
The short article gives a nod to the Wii, the Power Glove, Guitar Hero, Rock Band and even brain-sensing helmets, but it doesn't really get interesting until it starts talking about what Richard Marks, one of Sony's games division researchers and father of the EyeToy, is up to.
There's a lot of pie-in-the-sky talk from Marks, but the one thing he mentions that sounds both conceivable and quite fun is the idea of using a camera, likely the HD EyeToy, to let you take a picture of a drawing you made with a pen on a piece of paper, and then turning that picture into an animated character for the game you're playing.
We've already seen something like this in Drawn to Life, and while that game uses the concept to great effect, it's sort of hard for someone like me to draw a decent picture with a stylus on a touch screen.
Videogames Expand A Popular New Phase Of Full-Body Playing [WSJ]
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Wii Melts Icy Heart Of Anti-Video Game Mom
The Nintendo Wii may just be the best thing to happen to non-gamers since the invention of the... I don't know, let's say the polio vaccine. It not only gives retirement home detainees a replacement activity for staring longingly out the window, it gets them occasionally moving. It has given us the Alpha Mom, the laughing Wii Baby, and Wario Wario Smooth Moves. Now, it has transformed one hardline anti-gaming mom into a Wii devotee. In a new column, New York Times health reporter Tara Parker-Pope focuses on the cardiovascular silver lining of games like Wii Sports and the EyeToy series as the reason she's reversed her "no video games" policy at home.
Oh sure, she points to games that require physical interaction, say Dance Dance Revolution and Nicktoons Movin' Jellyfish Jam, as being heavy calorie burners, but I suspect ulterior motives. My guess is that she spent two hours in line to play Manhunt 2 as it was intended.
Moving Beyond Joysticks, and Off the Couch [New York Times]
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PlayStation Eye Detailed, Dated
Eye of Judgment may have Crecente and Fahey going bananas, but I snoozed through my E3 hands-on with the card based game. For those puzzled by EoJ or anyone who just doesn't understand the appeal of SingStar, yet still wants to film their wacky PLAYSTATION 3 antics, the PlayStation Eye will ship as a standalone product in just a few short weeks, right alongside the Eye of Judgment bundle. On October 23, PS3 owners can snap it up for a cheap $39.99, download the EyeCreate software and video edit their fool heads off. More »
Sony's Cheerleaders Break Hearts Everywhere
High school cheerleaders enjoy Sony's Trial of Topoq to the romantic backdrop of Germans SingStarring Pretty Woman. It was the stuff that 14-year-old dreams are made of.
High school cheerleaders enjoy Sony's Trial of Topoq to the romantic backdrop of Germans SingStarring Pretty Woman. It was the stuff that 14-year-old dreams are made of.
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"Hands-on" impressions might be leaning toward misleading as Sony's Trials of Topoq requires no actual touching, nor hands to play. The PlayStation Eye game only requires that you move your body about the screen to control a large ball. Whether you manipulate its path with your head, your hands, your crotch or your ass matters not. All that's necessary is that you create waves and, in the case of the Games Convention show floor, make a fool of yourself.
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Trial of Topoq Hands-On Impresssions
"Hands-on" impressions might be leaning toward misleading as Sony's Trials of Topoq requires no actual touching, nor hands to play. The PlayStation Eye game only requires that you move your body about the screen to control a large ball. Whether you manipulate its path with your head, your hands, your crotch or your ass matters not. All that's necessary is that you create waves and, in the case of the Games Convention show floor, make a fool of yourself.
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Jaffe Wanted X-Rated Calling All Cars
With David Jaffe in stealth mode, we're going to have survive on scraps from weeks old interviews if we want our foul-mouthed developer fix. Fortunately, Sony marketing outlet ThreeSpeech has posted the result of a brief EyeToy based chat (nice plug, guys!) with the God of War developer. More »
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The Eye Q&A
ThreeSpeech, Sony's quasi mouthpiece, has posted a short-ish Q&A about the recently announced Eye for the PlayStation 3. More »
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Naughty Dog's PS3 Game Finally Titled
One of the more exciting games shown at E3 2006, one that seemed to jolt the gathered audience to consciousness after Kaz Hirai's hypnotist act, was Naughty Dog's jungle runner that showed up without a proper name. Now, thanks to the trademark hounds at NeoGAF, we can start calling it Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. Awkward? Yes, but better than "Untitled Naughty Dog Game." More »
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PS2 EyeToy Works on the PS3
You will be happy to hear that both the Playstation 2 keyboard by Logitech and the PS2's EyeToy work on the Playstation 3. More »
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360 Cam to Ship with Free Game
Gamasutra reports that the Xbox 360 Camera will be shipping with a free gesture-based game. OK Sony, now you can claim Microsoft is copying you. More »
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Does This Explain the Xbox 360 Camera?
GestureTek is not a stranger to console camera peripherals. The company previously worked on Sony's EyeToy and showcased their latest creation at E3: a head lock on program for the Xbox 360's camera. The company implied that the in-game camera would turn when players turn their heads. Fab game site Siliconera filmed this early E3 demo. More »
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Can't wait to get your hands on a Nintendo Revolution controller so you can give the parts of your arm above the wrists a workout for a change? Soak up a few of the precious minutes until launch by reading GameDaily's retrospective on motion-detecting video game interfaces from the U-Force (Huh?) to the EyeToy (Oh, that).
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Motion Detection: A Look Back
Can't wait to get your hands on a Nintendo Revolution controller so you can give the parts of your arm above the wrists a workout for a change? Soak up a few of the precious minutes until launch by reading GameDaily's retrospective on motion-detecting video game interfaces from the U-Force (Huh?) to the EyeToy (Oh, that).
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EyeToy Killer?
Xboxic is talking about a patent filed by Microsoft for relative range camera calibration which, it sounds like, would allow two cameras to analyze a three-dimensional scene and track movement. When a blogger approached Microsoft about the patent he was told that the specs for "Project Vision" will become clear down the line. More »
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Want to Star in a Fighting Game? Here's Yer Chance
What do you get when you cross a martial artist, an EyeToy and Virtua Fighter? Seriously sick moves, that's what. Kick ass martial artist Esco set out to review the Virtua Fighter EyeToy. Like the regular EyeToy peripheral, movements unfold in real time as players actually kick, jump and punch five feet from their TVs. Voices, sound effects and music are all directly from the game. Easy mode, Esco notes, is slow-paced and good for getting your Bruce Lee on. Medium is a huge step up with complicated combos and attacks. Hard falls somewhere between impossible and friggin' impossible. Seems like fun, but I just wish they could do something about the backgrounds. My living room decor doesn't exactly scream kick-ass. More »
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