Protests from animal rights activists have put a moratorium on NASA plans to expose 27 squirrel monkeys to gamma-ray radiation. Researchers hoped to simulate the effects of space radiation on humans, but protesters claim the experiment’s cruel and unnecessary. More »
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have trained monkeys to manipulate robotic appendages using the power of their minds, once again proving one solid scientific fact: monkeys kick arse. More »
Sega says Happy Holidays with a couple of holiday wallpapers and some new screens from the upcoming Wii Balance Board title Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll. More »
If I had 240 Microsoft points tomorrow, I would buy you a monkey. Haven’t you always wanted a monkey? The Xbox Live Avatar Marketplace pet shop opens tomorrow. More »
The folks at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) dropped us a line today to let us know they were sending a thank you gift to Sega for pulling advertisements for Samba De Amigo that featured chimpanzee actors. After the lovely, uplifting information PETA passed on to the publisher I can’t see that they really had much of a choice. We explained how involuntary chimpanzee “actors” are taken away from their mothers when they are just a year or so old and forced to perform confusing and repetitious tricks. We also explained some of the horrible methods that chimpanzee “trainers” use, such as electric shocks with shock collars and prods, isolation, beatings with sawed-off pool cues and slapjacks, and food deprivation. Then, at the ripe old age of just 8, the chimpanzees reach puberty and their showbiz careers are over–and they end up being dumped at dismal roadside zoos or sold to laboratories for experimentation.
So you…slingshot yourself, and you have to hit the cheeky monkeys? Flying ragdoll cheeky monkeys? Fantastic. Where do we sign up? More »
So we knew TimeSplitters 4 was in development, and have known about it for a while now. Still, there’s nothing like an official announcement, just to get it all out in the open. Free Radical have taken the wraps off TimeSplitters 4, announcing it on their site in probably the only way they could: with monkeys. Monkeys taking the piss out of Halo. Hit up the site to see the teaser ad in full. TimeSplitters 4 [Free Radical] More »
