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Popular This Week1. Retiree Wii Gamers - The AARP Life@50 Expo (VIDEO)  The Nintendo Wii booth at the AARP Life@50 Expo was a hot booth. Seniors and Baby-boomers crowded around to see live demonstrations and participate in impromptu challenges. Nintendo has “brain-training”… |
Popular This Month1. Real Life Nintendo - Video Game Characters Superimposed in the Real World (GALLERY)  The concept of placing video game characters in the real world is an interesting idea. In fact the idea is probably stronger than the results shown here. However, these images will hopefully inspire…2. Wireless Power Systems - Intel WiTricity (VIDEO)  Wireless power is one the Holy Grails of technology and something that has been searched for since Nikola Tesla fired up his giant coils in the 1890s. Now tech giant Intel has demonstrated WiTricity, a…3. Geeky Dropouts - Kid Drops Out of High School to Focus on Guitar Hero (GALLERY)  Like many other boys his age, 16-year old Blake Peebles loves to play Guitar Hero; unlike other boys his age, his parents let him quit school to focus on playing the popular video game competitively. After…4. Athletes As Religious Figures - Tiger Woods Walks on Water in EA Sports Ad (VIDEO)  Tiger Woods gets the Jesus treatment in a new ad for EA Sports' Tiger Woods PGA Tour video game. After a fan video was posted on YouTube calling out a glitch in the new game that permitted Tiger Woods…5. Incredibly Realistic Animated Actors - Image Metrics (VIDEO)  Welcome to the future, where actors are now obsolete.
Meet Emily. Just like in the movie, “S1m0ne,” Emily is totally fake!
That's right, fake. They finally did it!
You can kiss your acting career goodbye,…6. Timely Video Game Marketing - Brett Favre In Jets Jersey on Madden ‘09  The Golden Boy of the Green Bay Packers, Brett Favre, has left to become the quarterback of the New York Jets.
That’s no problem unless you are EA Sports and had a kazillion video games with Brett Favre…7. Virtual Image Consultants - Nintendo DS Project Beauty  Late this November, Japanese women will be the first to try out the new Nintendo DS game, Project Beauty, which offers them make-over advice.
The software was developed by Sega, the gaming company and…8. Geeky Guinness Records - World's Best Guitar Hero Player (VIDEO)  I kid you not, the Guinness Book of Records has officially proclaimed Chris Chike to be "the best Guitar Hero player on the planet."
The ultimate Guitar Hero champion is a 6 ft 2 high school senior, better…9. Wildy Realistic Virtual Facial Expressions - AlterEgo by Pendulum Studios (VIDEO)  This freaks me out. Pendulum Studios has release a video showing off their AlterEgo application.
These are the guys that brought in-game movies to Stuntman2 and are working on a project called Silent…10. Animal Skin Game Consoles - Alligator XBOX (GALLERY)  XBox consoles no longer just have to be the standard-out-of-the box types, as proven by this alligator skin XBox.
Yes, I moan about cliche branding of goods (The Dark Knight XBox being a recent example)…11. Virtual Cooking Competitions - Iron Chef America for Nintendo Wii (VIDEO)  Perhaps you've always wanted to engage in random fits of culinary exploration a la Iron Chef America but lack the time, opponent or willingness to clean that make such indulgences possible. Nintendo Wii's…12. Greener Toy Pressures - Wal-mart Pushes For Eco Games (VIDEO)  Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer and thus the world's largest seller of game stations, wants toy manufacturers to be more green.
As a result, the big players in gaming were summoned to rural Arkansas…13. Microphone-Integrated Portable Gaming - The Sony PSP-3000  If you thought the Sony PSP couldn’'t get any better, with it's almost console-like games, music player, web browser, and much, much more, then you are in for a surprise.
Yesterday, at the Leipzig Games…14. Movie Inspired Consoles - Dark Knight Limited Edition X Box (GALLERY)  A must for all hardcore Dark Knight fans, this Dark Knight X Box is strictly limited to 110 versions. It is currently available on eBay for a whopping $1200. If you want one bid very fast indeed.
I must…15. Gamers Renting Movie Theatres (UPDATE) - Private XBox Parties at Cineplex  In a move that could make the cineplex the place to be again, a theater company in Canada, called Cineplex Odeon, is renting their big screens to gamers. In a move that makes perfect sense to get revenue… |
Popular Last Month1. Glamorization of Video Game Characters - 10 Hot Gaming Characters (GALLERY)  This is a bit creepy as people must have put a lot of thought into the top 25 hottest female fighters in video game land. Objectively I have cut it down to ten for your enjoyment - and yes boys also your…2. Gadget Inspired Coffins - Apple iPhone & Microsoft Caskets (GALLERY)  If you really can't live without your iPhone, you might as well be buried in one. Well, not a real one, but a coffin that resembles an iPhone.
Not an Apple fan? Maybe a heart-attack after Microsoft's…3. Bikini Game Controllers - The Geekini  Wow. Just wow. French designer John Nouanesing has left me speechless with his super wicked, ultra cool, geeky bikini, the Geekini. Nouanesing combines two items that excite any nerd: a game controller,…4. Band Geek Hero Shirts - Fashion for Proud Musicians (GALLERY)  Prefer practicing with a real band to plunking aroudn on plastic Guitar Hero or Rockband instruments? Be proud of your real musical talent with the Band Geek Hero T-shirts!
They punch up shirts in funky…5. Street Style Video Games - Pop Cutie! Street Fashion Simulation (VIDEO)  In an attempt to win over more female gamers, Nintendo is launching Pop Cutie! a street fashion video game simulator for the Nintendo DS. It's merges the fascination with Tokyo street style blogs with…6. Redesigning The Wiimote - 10 Cool Wii-creations (GALLERY)  Design Matin has come up with ten concepts that re-imagine the innovative Nintendo remote control, the Wiimote, as a functional household object.
The fun designs feature the kitchen friendly wii-mélange…7. 13 Customizable Commercials & Animations (SUPER GALLERY)  To create your own cartoons you don't have to be a graphic artist, or any artist for that matter, thanks to new computer technologies that let you customize your own animations. This is most frequently…8. Superhero Comic Book Games - DC Universe Online (VIDEO)  The Dark Knight fans have a chance to interact with Batman in DC Universe Online, a new online multiplayer comic book game.
It was launched at Comic-Con by Sony and DC Comics this week, making it the…9. Real Guitars for Gamers - The Zivix "Z1" for Rockband & Guitar Hero (VIDEO)  It’s amazing how talented gamers can become using toy guitar in the very popular Guitar Hero and RockBand video games. Now gamers can take that talent one step further by playing their games using Z1…10. E3 2008 Highlights - Wiimtoe  At E3 2008, the Wii MotionPlus was unveiled by Nintendo, and Wii fans can't seem to control their excitement. It's a tiny little chip, about the size of a Lego cube, that plugs into the bottom of your…11. Beijing Olympics Alternative Reality Games - The Lost Ring (VIDEO)  The Lost Ring is an alternative reality game (ARG) based on the Beijing Olympics which is a fascinating concept in itself, but it was the guerrilla marketing behind the game that makes it even more intriguing.…12. Free Games - Windows Live Games Goes Free, PC Gaming More Like Xbox 360  Free games are just around the corner, courtesy of Windows Live. The PC video game service, which used to require a subscription fee, will no be completely free. In addition, it will get better. Microsoft…13. User Created Xbox 360 Games - Microsoft Wants Users to Get Creative  Microsoft is setting the stage for users to create the next Xbox 360 games. Journalists are interpreting the move as a strategy alike that of Facebook and Youtube.
When Facebook opened up its API platform,…14. 30 New Games at E3 2008 - Your Next Geeky Game Addiction (VIDEO)  Since we can't be at E3 2008 in LA this week, we're grateful that the Edge released a comprehensive list of "The 30 Most Anticipated Games of E3." They anticipate that Fallout 3, Halo Wars and Rockband…15. Portable Power - Duracell Chargers for Blackberrys, IPods & PSP (GALLERY)  Duracell has a couple of portable chargers available that will give users just 'that little bit extra' in terms of gadget time. The device helps out in those times of need when you can't find a power… |
