Apple has pulled an iPhone application which simulated shaking a baby until it fell asleep. But the firm hasn’t given a clear explanation as to how it was approved in the first place. The application was produced by third-party firm Sikalosoft and approved for sale through the App store section of the iTunes store. Costing […]
This one is for all the geeky ladies reading us: Jeri Ellsworth is one hell of a geekette. She took a NES/C64-on-a-chip system, an lcd screen from a portable DVD player, 2 NES controllers, and assembled everything on a purse for the ultimate in female geek fashion. Unfortunately, I don’t think Jeri plans to commercialize […]
Many naughty children have been ordered to hand over video game controllers and disks to their rightful owners. Now Activision, makers of Guitar Hero, have suffered the same fate. It’s the result of a legal case involving Activision and Genius Products, both of whom are working on DJ-related games. Genius is working on a game […]
A simple pair of polarized 3D glasses, a 10′ x 10′ x 10′ white room, and $600,000 worth of projector and computer equipment, combined with the smarts of the folks at Eon Reality, results in one insanely real experience. [Via Newlaunches]
French prankster Remi Gaillard brings us a real-life version of Pac-Man, and leaves chaos behind! If you enjoy this sort of thing, see a dozen more real-life video games here. [via Metafilter]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Mirror’s Edge, the EA game that sold over a million copies in just a few months, features a first person perspective that makes it pretty stylistically distinctive, and lots of running/jumping/sliding that gives it a kind of frantic feel. This video recreates that style/feel in real life, with the […]
In the following video, Swedish gaming company Illusion Labs shows a few of their games running on a large multi-touch display. The games run on any multi-touch hardware, including mobile devices, multi-touch laptops and large window displays. [Via Newlaunches]
Microsoft has agreed to extended the warranty on the Xbox 360 to cover the ‘E74’ error. This bug is different to the much-publicized ‘red ring of death’. It’s indicated by one quadrant of the power indicator glowing, and an on-screen message displaying the error code E74 and informing users to contact Xbox customer support. Once […]
I don’t exactly know how difficult moving around this skydiving simulator is, but it sure does look like a lot fun! I’ve seen simulators similar to this in the past, but the only thing they allowed was to hover in mid-air. Certainly nothing as cool as this thing! [Via TechEblog]
Combat robots aren’t exactly new – the first season of the Comedy Central show “Battlebots” aired in 2000 and the games had been going strong since 1997. What’s interesting, however, is how 11 years of robot evolution have affected the sport. Back in 2002, the spinners ruled the day. But today’s robots are meaner than […]