Transformers Prime Teaches the Wii U Control Pad How to Drive

Transformers Prime for the Wii U isn't a particularly spectacular game, but it does hint at big things to come for racing games on the console, transforming that bulky control pad into a capable little steering wheel peripheral.

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This Striking Motion-Controlled iOS Boxing Game is Completely Unreal

Powered by Unreal Engine 3, Vivid Games' Real Boxing is not just another pretty face waiting to be beaten into submission. It also uses your iPad, iPhone or iPad Touch's camera to deliver surprisingly responsive motion-controlled boxing.

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Three Video Games Helped This Guy Recover From a Stroke

People fortunate to survive a stroke face a hard road to recovering their full mental and physical capabilities. Canoeist Sam Chick found himself facing that journey after a stroke rendered the left side of his body immobile 12 years ago.

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The Future of Sports Doesn't Seem Set in Motion

I have this silly daydream of a Kinect-enabled baseball game. In it, you can call for your runner to steal by going through the signals of a third-base coach. Then touch the cap, touch the belt, touch the letters, indicator, sign, corners of the mouth, batter-up fists, clap, let's go.

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Here's How You Handle Looking and Turning in a Motion-Control FPS

Head- and eye-tracking will be the next big breakthrough in motion-controlled gaming. Forza Motorsport 4 will deliver it via Kinect. But for first-person shooters, we're still stuck controlling our look with our arms, an act as unnatural as it is inconvenient. Some University of Texas students have whipped up a…

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Quake's Oddest Controller Is Made Of Mouse, Keyboard And Masking Tape

In 2006, before Kinect and maybe even before Wii, gamer Niel de la Rouviere decided to make a motion-controller for Quake III. He says he was bored; I say that Niel de la Rouviere, armed with masking tape, was efficient.

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