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Play Games With Your Brain Next Month
5:00AM Brian Crecente | I’ve been slightly intrigued with game controller Emotiv since I had a chance to go brains on with it a few years back in San Francisco. More »
PS3 Keyboard Remote Is Elegant Solution To Home Chatting
12:40AM Mike Fahey | Rather than rely on a controller add-on or a full blue tooth keyboard, Success HK has just released a 3-in-1 wireless keyboard controller that provides a more convenient way to navigate PlayStation Home. More »
Build Your Own Xbox Arcade Controller
9:40AM Stuart Houghton | If you enjoy fighting games on your Xbox – in particular new versions of classics like MK Vs DCU or SF II With Bells On It HD And A Partridge In A Pear Tree II HD Turbo Turbo (to use the shorter form of the game – the full title is some four paragraphs of close-set type) you may be in the market for a better controller. More »
Mad Catz Ships Fender Rock Band Bass
3:40AM Mike Fahey | It’s here, it’s here! It’s finally here! Well, it’ll shortly be here at least. Mad Catz has announced that the first in their line of third-party Rock Band instrument alternatives is shipping today, and bassists of the world rejoice. The Fender Precision Bass guitar is an extremely sexy piece of fake guitar-shaped plastic, featuring all the standard guitar features, including solo keys, overdrive mode, and a unique whammy feature integrated into the volume control to give the bass an authentic feel. Probably the best feature of the Fender Precision is the split strum bar, which allows for two-finger plucking in classic bass style. The only way they could capture the bass experience any better would be to include someone to (severely edited) the bassist in between sets. I crave this like I have craved no other plastic musical instrument before, to the point where I’m completely bypassing my own built-in safeguards against buying Mad Catz products and actively considering making the purchase. Scary, I know! More »
Guitar Hero: On Tour Full Size Guitar Mod
8:20AM Kotaku US Edition | Now this is more like it. GH:On Tour is all well and good, but it is hard to feel like yer actual axe-wielding rock warrior when you are hunched over a DS with a soppy-looking ‘Guitar Grip’ attached to your hand like a Nerf knuckleduster. Eric Ruckman was so desperate to give the DS port of Guitar Hero the thrashing it so richly deserves that he scooped out the innards of his PS2 guitar and melded it with a DS. The DS touch screen is still used for strumming – the plectrum stylus works even better in this context – and the crafty sod even bolted on an FM transmitter to pump stereo sound through his hi-fi. Hack Guitar Hero DS into a guitar controller [Hack-A- Day via Engadget] Follow the jump for a video of the mod in action. More »
Mad Catz Making Official Street Fighter IV Controllers
10:00AM Brian Crecente | Typically when a Mad Catz controller press release crosses my desk I don’t spend much time worrying over it. But this, this is much different. Mad Catz today announced that they’ve secured the licence to make controllers and accessories for a number of Capcom games including Bionic Commando, Resident Evil 5 and (gasp) Street Fighter IV. That’s right, Mad Catz are making the Street Fighter IV fighting sticks. I hope that makes you as nervous as that makes me. I’ve never been a big fan of Street Fighter on a console. Why? Because frankly it’s not a game meant for console gaming. Sure you can play around with it at home, but SF is a arcade cabinet game and it always will be. Don’t bother arguing with me, I will stubbornly refuse to listen and may even start making blah, blah, blah noises. So when I started talking to the Capcom folks about Street Fighter IV (Ok, gushing), I told them how I fully expect the console version to suck. Really suck. No Brian, they told me, that’s not true. Wait until you see the controllers. They’re really going to be something special. Then comes the news today, Mad Catz is making them. Lies, LIES, I tell you. But after a bit of hyperventilating I touched base with some friends in the know and have been reassured (at least they tried to) that the controllers are still going to be filled with delicious awesome. I wait, arms crossed sternly in front of chest, to be surprised. More »
Nyko’s Wii Remote Charge Station Won’t Work with Motion Plus
8:20AM Brian Crecente | I just ran by the Nyko meeting rooms to find out about their Wii Remote Charging Station. That’s the thing that comes with replacement rechargeable batteries and allows you to dock your remotes in a holder to charge them when not playing. Personally I find mine irreplaceable, mostly because I can never remember to buy batteries. The thing when I demoed Wii Sport Resort I noticed that the controller was longer now and asked Nintendo if the charger would still work. Ask Nyko was their reply, so I did. Unfortunately, it won’t work, at least not while the Wii Motion Plus device is attached. The Nyko guys told me they were already looking at ways to solve the problem. They added that they believe the Wii Motion Plus attachment doesn’t contain batteries, meaning it likely draws power from the Remote, which would likely reduce the battery life for the controller. Bad news all around. More »
