In Real Life

Mega64 Takes Skyward Sword Motion Control To The Streets

Normally, comedy team Mega64 deploys just one of its members into public to act as a video game character. For The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword they sent two: one to be Link, the other to control Link.


July 3, 2011
In Real Life

The Future Of Sports Doesn’t Seem Set In Motion

I have this silly daydream of a Kinect-enabled baseball game. In it, you can call for your runner to steal by going through the signals of a third-base coach. Then touch the cap, touch the belt, touch the letters, indicator, sign, corners of the mouth, batter-up fists, clap, let’s go.


May 1, 2011
In Real Life

Here’s How You Handle Looking And Turning In A Motion-Control FPS

Head- and eye-tracking will be the next big breakthrough in motion-controlled gaming. Forza Motorsport 4 will deliver it via Kinect. But for first-person shooters, we’re still stuck controlling our look with our arms, an act as unnatural as it is inconvenient. Some University of Texas students have whipped up a solution for that.


February 26, 2011
PlayStation

SOCOM 4 Strategically Releases $US150 Full Deployment Edition

Sony gives SOCOM fans a chance to gear up for the new age of motion-controlled shooters with the $US150 Full Deployment Edition of SOCOM 4. What’s inside?


February 16, 2011
PC

Odd Quake Controller Made Of Mouse, Keyboard, Masking Tape

In 2006, before Kinect and maybe even before Wii, gamer Niel de la Rouviere decided to make a motion-controller for Quake III. He says he was bored; I say that Niel de la Rouviere, armed with masking tape, was efficient.


January 4, 2011
In Real Life

Timelapse Video Of A New Year’s Spent Gaming Wildly

New Years time lapse from Dave Ghent on Vimeo.

This video by Vimeo user David Ghent shows what it looks like when New Year’s (Eve?) is mixed with alcohol, Xbox 360 Kinect motion gaming and some PlayStation Move — all in a room that’s not that big.


December 1, 2010
News

How Many PlayStation Moves Has Sony Moved?

Yesterday Microsoft posted an impressive 2.5 million Kinect units sold worldwide since the device went on sale earlier this month. Today Sony comes back with even more impressive numbers for the PlayStation Move, albeit over an extended period of time.


September 10, 2010
In Real Life

Kevin Butler Also VP Of Kinect Snark?

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The PS3 is good for motion gaming and “sitting gaming”, everyone’s fave fake exec says in his latest ad, published today. Is that a dig at Kinect’s capacity to recognise people gaming from their couch?


September 1, 2010

Playstation Move Review: The Motion Controller Wars Start Now

The motion controller wars start now.


August 17, 2010
News

Kinect Clone In Action

With the Xbox 360 legally banned in China, the country is getting a Kinect clone called “eBox”.