Gaming

Nissan is aiming the Mixim, their new fully electric concept vehicle squarely at the internet generation with its game controller inspired steering wheel and cockpit style interior. According to Shiro Nakamura, Sr. VP at Nissan: “It combines a sociable three plus one interior with controls and visual projections that are familiar to the computer generation. And it uses environmentally-friendly battery ...

Those of you who remember patrolling the game arcades will remember the method of high score ranking on arcade game machines. You’d put in your three initials, or whatever three letters you used as a tag. Surprisingly enough, the letter ranking was one thing I had a hard time figuring out, which meant my initials always came out as “AAA”. ...

We all know you like playing with yourself and with DrumPants you finally can…in public! Tyler “odbol” Freeman, like most young adults, likes to drum his pants. The only difference is that he dared to dream about what it would be like if pounding on his pants actually produced drum sounds. Now, with the help of his handy instruction guide, ...

We all know that the DS has been spanking the PSP in terms of sales, and the touchscreen featured on Nintendo’s handheld platform is a major reason why. Now PSP owners can get in on the action (sort of) thanks to the folks at SparkFun. For a mere $23.95 you can pick up this PSP display add on that gives ...

For years I have been wondering when a game company would finally get around to developing a title where pirates and ninjas engage in a rubber ball based battle to the death. Finally, Gamecock Media has stepped up to the plate today and announced that they will be publishing Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball. So the age old question, “who would ...

Mia Rose, porn star and avid WoW player, was surprised to find her level 70 Undead Warlock banned from from popular MMORPG with apparently no reason. The cause for this consequence? It seems that Mia Rose had starred as a horny elf in a porno flick titled, World of Whorecraft. Apparently, the people over at Blizzard don’t take too kindly ...

Those damn crane games frustrate us so much. All we want it the little stuffed monkey, and we keep getting the ugly gray stuffed rhino. Or sometimes nothing at all. That’s why we usually stick to the “play until you win” type crane games. RoboCrane is a new Japanese crane style game that could make these games interesting again. Users ...

Just in case the super game friendly touchscreen of the iPhone wasn’t all the proof you needed to conclude that there will eventually be game software for the phone, a piece of code embedded in the iTunes’s software further confirms the evident fact that Apple has plans to issue games. The coding looks something like this: /* ===== iPhone Game ...

It came with no surprise when Sony announced the availability of the updated PSP (PSP-P2000) which shed 4mm of thickness and 91g of weight off the original model. The company also announced a DMB tuner module at the same time, and we’re dying to see how it works with the the new TV-out capability.

Has anyone noticed how quick the progress of iPhone applications is advancing? Only weeks ago was a third-party “Hello World” application being made, and now we’ve already reached the pinnacle with a NES emulator. So far, the emulator runs a bit too slow to be playable without the annoyance of a tortoise-speed game play. And the game controller, although adorably ...