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5th Day of Xmas: 6 Live action Streetfighters fighting

andy — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:05:40 +0000

(yeah, i know im a day late – shut it!!)

Roomba Pac-Man

andy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:59:46 +0000

Clever chaps make their own version of Pac-man using Roomba vacuum cleaners, computers, paper & sticky tape.

visit the project website here – http://pacman.elstonj.com/

Flute Hero on Rockband

andy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:03:42 +0000

Street Fighter II in 15 pixels

andy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:20:36 +0000

GameCity: Street Fighter Squared! from Alaskan Military School on Vimeo.

Helps if you have sound, but its clearly Ken V Blanka!

Flight of the Conchords in Beatles Rockband!!!

andy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:51:17 +0000

Flight Of The Conchords are set to appear in a forthcoming edition of the “Rock Band” computer game, the comedy duo have revealed.

“There’s going to be three songs on ‘Rock Band’,” he said. “I’m serious. You’ll be able to look like The Beatles and play one of our songs.” The pair did not reveal which of their songs would be chosen to appear in the game.

I assume they mean that some of their songs will be available on DLC, but its still pretty cool!!

Nice ‘Tache Bret!!

D&D on Microsoft’s multi-touch Surface table

andy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:50:53 +0000

This is a work in progress tech demo from a sextet of CMU students that touches on some of the more superficial, but supercool, portions of running a D&D campaign on one of the world’s more expensive monitors.

Surfacescapes Demo Walkthrough from Visual Story TAs on Vimeo.

via: Kotaku

Chord Friday: I’m looking through you – The Beatles

andy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:54:47 +0000

This weeks tune is ‘Im looking through you’ by The Beatles, and what better way to create a bit of syncronicity than you show you the version from ‘Beatles Rockband’

I’m looking through you – The Beatles

No Rockband for old men

andy — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:15:12 +0000

Hillarious clip of ‘Rock Gods’ Rush attempting to play their classic ‘Tom Sawyer’ on Rockband.

Epic Rock Fail!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btcvSWoQWV0

Aww Bless ‘em!!

Thanks to old man rock correspondent Maffu

First Person Shooters good for the eyes

andy — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:01:59 +0000

Interesting article on livescience.com about how playing PC FPS can improve the eyes ability to perceive ‘fine contrast differences’ in tests. This is the ability discern slight differences in shades of gray, or contrast sensitivity, and could make the difference between seeing the car in front of you or not seeing it, if driving at dusk or in fog.

In the new study, her team tested the contrast sensitivity function of 22 students, then divided them into two groups: One group played the action video games “Unreal Tournament 2004″ and “Call of Duty 2.” The other played “The Sims 2,” which is richly visual, but does not require as much visual-motor coordination…

..Those who played the action games showed an average 43 percent improvement in their ability to discern close shades of gray — close to the difference Bavelier had previously observed between game players and non-game players — whereas the Sims players showed no improvement.

Yay, another positive sideeffect of gaming!

link: http://www.livescience.com/health/090329-game-vision.html

Is this the future of gaming?

andy — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:02:10 +0000

OnLive is a new video games on demand service that may just change the way you play PC games. The brainchild of Rearden Studios founder Steve Perlman, formerly of Atari, Apple, WebTV and more, and Mike McGarvey, formerly of Eidos, the technology looks to revolutionize the way computer games are brought home. Instead of spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on the latest video game hardware that will make games like Crysis playable at nearly maxed settings, let OnLive’s servers handle the processing. All that’s required is a low cost “micro console” or a low end PC and a broadband internet connection.

They claim to have got round the issue of lag and if this is the case, (and this is a BIG IF) it could end the console wars once and for all!

I am excited!

via Kotaku