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UncategorizedThe Day Guitar Hero Died
I’ll never forget where I was when I heard that a plane had crashed in an Iowa cornfield, with Izzy Sparks, Johnny Napalm, and Lars Ümlaüt aboard. Here’s “The Day Guitar Hero Died,” by The Warp Zone, a tribute to the one-time phenomenon killed last week by Activision. Not to damn it with faint praise,…
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UncategorizedPlay “Human Tetris” with This Kinect Mod
Here’s another Kinect mod from the “Why haven’t they thought of that already?” file. This is a take on “human tetris,” one of the premises of Fuji TV game show Tonneruzu, albeit without boat horns, chortling audience, and a Japanese Chuck Barris as the host. Simple concept: The screen sends a virtual wall at you,…
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A Vegas Club Offers a ‘Wine List’ of Vintage Games
The idea, says Christopher LaPorte, is you’ll come into his club, sit on a large, luxurious couch, and examine a list handed to you by an attractive cocktail waitress. You’ll then say something like, “I’ll have the Mega Man 3, 1990. Please bring two controllers.” “I really want it to be like a wine list,”…
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UncategorizedThe Bloodiest Football Game You’ll Play Today
While it’s not the most accurate representation of American football, Milkstone Studios’ Zombie Football Carnage still has all the right moves – just a little bloodier. Zombie Football Carnage hit the Xbox Live Indie Games store today, and its colorful Castle Crashers-style graphics caught my eye immediately. The you play a little football helmet wearing…
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Are Video Games Turning Liberals Into Virtual Conservatives?
Monica Potts a feminist graduate of an all-girls college that would never take her husband’s name or dream of ending her career to raise children. In the Sims 3 she’s a married mother that stays home with the kids. In a fascinating article on The American Prospect, Potts explores the phenomenon of players like herself…
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Light-Absorbing Anti-Lasers Could One Day Rule Your Computer
Scientists at Yale University have created the world’s first anti-laser, a device in which two beams of light clash together, ultimately cancelling each other out. How could such a device change the way we do our computing? A laser is a device that emits a focused beam of light using a process of optical amplification.…
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How Samurai Warriors 3DS Plays While You’re Not Playing
With the Nintendo 3DS’s innovative new Street Pass feature, developers now have to figure out how their games will play when the players aren’t playing. In Samurai Warriors Chronicles, your 3DS will fight your battles for you. Street Pass is the Nintendo 3DS feature that allows your 3DS to communicate with other players’ systems while…
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UncategorizedKillzone 3 Is Too Big For Just One Funny TV Ad
With two different ways to play and a special peripheral specifically designed for motion control, Sony spokes model Kevin Butler couldn’t cover all of Killzone 3 in just one ad, so he did two. The first Butlermercial covers the Killzone 3 basics. It’s a shooter. You shoot things. You shoot them dramatically enough to make…
By Mike Fahey
