It’s no joke that the Arduino is changing the way we build projects. I’ve even ordered one so I can start tinkering with it and discovering how it works. It seems a more advanced architect of sorts has already shown me up, though. This Powerball-based game lets you move around in a Flash-based game with the ball controller. Just like Tempest!
Guitar Hero got lame pretty damn fast and Dance Dance Revolution was never straight. Para Para Revolution however, isn’t nearly as bad. Instead of dancing on foot pads or playing a fake guitar, the player wears gloves with accelerometers that detect their hand movements.
The gloves focus on both hands’ waving motions. The player has to follow the rhythm and wave his hand in a certain direction to score points accordingly. This makes tuning your bodily movements to more harmonious patterns rhythms more fun and less gay than any other rhythm game on the market.
And by Galactic, I mean Spore: Galactic Edition of course. If you’re a gamer who needs every piece of memorabilia a game has to offer then you won’t mind shelling out $80 for this special edition. Remember Vince’s monstrous pal, Bonerfart? He died. But, that’s only because Vince didn’t reserve his copy of Galactic Edition, guaranteeing him the 100-page galactic handbook which would’ve told him his creature was a vegetarian. The pack includes:
- ‘Making of Spore’ DVD video
- ‘The Human Toolkit’ DVD video, by National Geographic
- ‘The Art of Spore’ hardback mini-book
- Fold-out Spore poster
- Premium 100-page Galactic Handbook
Remember, if you don’t want your monster to suffer the same fate as Bonerfart’s, you’ll wise up and secure your galactic handbook today or the civilization you’ve created in Spore could become extinct quicker than you expected.
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Toys sure have evolved over the years. It went from the basic teddy bear, to Creepy Crawlers (remember those fuckers?), to Mighty Max to the dog that vomits slime. Come August, toy company Mega House, a subsidiary of Bandai, will ship “Biri Biri Kaze Hiki Wanko” or “Shocking Sick Puppy”, a Japanese toy guaranteed to disgust many parents out there.
It plays like the classic game, Operation. Reach into the pooch’s mouth and grab the germs. Touch the slime and your ass gets shocked back into the Stone Age. Collect the most germs, you win. A simple, yet, disgustingly awesome game.
Following his creation of a portable Atari 2600, Ben Heck was hesitant to make the 7800 portable due to the complexity of the motherboard. But Ben didn’t let that phase him as he’s finally finished the portable Atari 7800. The motherboard was larger than the 2600’s thus the unit had to be larger, so Ben slapped a 7-inch wide screen onto it to make up for it’s bulky size.
The system, with its corpulent form, still weighs less than a gallon of milk and runs on rechargeable batteries. Even the Sega Game Gear is jealous of this thing! Though Ben claims it’s portable; it will never fit in your pockets like a Game Boy Micro will. Then again, the Micro doesn’t have quite the game library the 7800 has.
Have you ever wanted to add a floppy drive to your Nintendo Game Boy in order to read ROM files for all of your games? Neither have I, considering you can just download an emulator. Regardless, a French author has posted everything (even circuit diagrams) you’ll need to turn your portable gaming system into a cumbersome mess of wires. Sure, no one uses diskettes anymore but the dedication this author has put into this hack instead of just going out and buying a flash device is note worthy.
Fun to watch, but not fun to play. Otherwise, the Nokia N-Gage might actually have been a success with their killer Snakes game.
A student house in Poland used a microprocessor to control the lights in the building, which was then programmed to play Snake, Snakes, Rattler Race…whatever the hell you want to call it. Very cool. Now let’s see the lights in your building emulate Dig Dug.
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Chalk Chess is the brainchild of UK design studio SUCK. Each piece is a piece of chalk that can be used to draw a chess board anywhere you please. Just draw a grid, color it in with your pieces and you’re ready to whoop anyone’s ass in a straight-thuggin’ game of chess.
Though it’s just a prototype at the moment, I could see Chalk Chess becoming a reality sometime soon. The only issue I have is that eventually, the pieces will become worn down and unrecognizable as time goes on. Also, what if it starts to rain? Will your pieces melt quickly? Surely the board would wash away. Perhaps Chalk Chess is best left for a beautiful day in the park.
If you’ve ever played the game Full Throttle or seen the movie Aliens, you’re familiar with the “game” of laying your hand down flat on a table and using a knife to stab at the table in between your fingers. The trick is to not hit your hand. There’s no pay off for winning the game but there is most certainly a penalty for losing.
Drawing inspiration from the electronic game Simon, Aram Chang has designed a safe and alternative way of stabbing yourself in a computer generated sequence. If you hit your hand, the game ends; if you complete the sequence, you build up your score. So now there’s a payoff but practically no penalty? Where’s the fun in that?
Grand Theft Auto mania is running wild, brother! We figured in the spirit of the game’s release, many of you hooligans are either feeling the game so much that you’ve got your own little real life crime spree planned, or you’re so scared from the game’s contents, that you’re ready to go all out military protection and armor down the hatchets.
Either way, we’ve got you covered. (more…)