Xbox

The Solar-Powered House Of The Future, Controlled With Xbox Kinect

The brainy brains at SCI-Arc and Caltech have designed an entirely solar-powered house that is clean, green, and energy-efficient. It’s also remarkably easy to use, thanks to the fact that the entire thing is powered by Xbox’s Kinect motion controls.


November 24, 2011
Mobile

Gameloft Flies Game-Laden Rental iPads Across Australia

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could rent an iPad filled with nifty Gameloft-brand game product to keep you occupied during lengthy flights? Next month customers of Australia’s Jetstar will find out first hand.


August 23, 2011
In Real Life

In The Future, Video Games Will Call You A Big Fat Liar

Kotaku AU

Predicting the future is a tricky business. Back to the Future is a case in point – I was promised hoverboards yet science failed to deliver. Now, at a behind closed doors panel, SEGA boss Shuhei Yoshida has claimed that in ten years times video games would feature “almost dangerous kinds of interactivity”.


January 25, 2011
Mobile

Ghosts In The Machine: The Future Of Video Games

Kotaku AU

Games are a constantly evolving medium, but after recent evolutions in user interfaces with the Nintendo Wii and Kinect, what’s next for gaming? To find out we spoke to inventor, futurist and all-round smart guy Mark Pesce about the future of gaming and what we can expect over the next 10 to 20 years.


August 11, 2010
News

Stephen Hawking Thinks The Earth Should Probably Start Packing

“I see great dangers for the human race,” begins noted theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. As a human myself, that’s exactly the sort of thing I don’t like to hear.


July 2, 2010
In Real Life

Intel Inside Your Mind, Serving You Drinks

We’re one step closer to browsing the internet with our mind while our robot butler brings us drinks, and it’s all thanks to Intel. PC Magazine tells us about the wonderful tech on display at the company’s latest R&D day.


May 28, 2010
News

Here’s What Ubisoft Is Bringing To E3

E3 is right around the corner, and the big publishers are rolling out lists of what they’ll be bringing to the show. Ubisoft’s list includes Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Shaun White Skateboarding, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, the next instalment of the Driver series, and “many other titles” that haven’t been revealed yet. Keep an eye on Kotaku on Monday, June 14, when Ubisoft’s annual press conference kicks off.


May 26, 2010
News

Game Nation: A Massively Multiplayer Offline Role-Playing Game

Game Nation is gearing up to make your live-action role-playing dreams come true, now scouting locations for the world’s first “Experiential Video Game Theme Park and Resort”. Sounds like some expensive LARPing to me!


February 10, 2010
In Real Life

Mass Effect 2 Predicts Super Bowl Winner – In 2185

No word on how Madden is doing with its predictions 175 years from now, but Mass Effect 2, via Cerberus Daily News, says the New York Giants, with a Krogan quarterback (pictured), beat the Beijing Dragons in Super Bowl CCXIX.


January 29, 2010

Six PADDs I Would Actually Buy

I may be tempted to one day buy the iPad as a crossover ereader, but there’s nothing magical about the device for me. Not unless you replace one of its vowels with a consonant.