WoW Mt. Dew
Seems Mountain Dew is focusing on the gamers market once again. Like they need any help there.
Seems Mountain Dew is focusing on the gamers market once again. Like they need any help there.
Last night I got the stuff to get my xbox hooked up to the internet as an early birthday / father’s day gift (as well as a super cool nifty laptop bag and lap desk) and, after I download the updates, installed the netflix app. I then proceeded to start watching movies in my queue. Very cool and works great. I wish it would show all the streamable movies in my queue, or, better yet, browse the entire library, but still, it worked very well and I am excited to have that feature. I’m going to be working on a media storage pc connecting to it to stream our music and other media. I am very excited about this new ability. Oh ya, and now we can buy games through it too.
One of the items I ran across was the Natal video. I loaded it up to show Taryn this interface and discovered that it was not the hyped unrealistic looking commercials i’ve seen everywhere , but the actual E3 on-stage demo of the product. It works. It seems to work very well. I can now see it augmenting their existing controllers in a way that would help immerse the gamer and offer more control of the character.
I can’t find a video of the actual E3 demo. If I can I’ll post it up here.
I was wondering why sony, during their motion sensitive controller demonstration, kept mentioning that they needed a controller because it didn’t feel right without it. Now we know. Unfortunately, Microsoft’s tech could work with the existing controller or really any shape or style of controller. That would be something, I’d think, because sony is right that some things just don’t feel right without a button.
Edit:Here’s a video so you don’t have to go to another site to see it.
At E3 this year, Microsoft snet out some videos about their new control system- the human body. While this seems like a good idea, I can’t imagine it really being more than a fad. I know a lot of people said the same thing about the Wii, but imagine playing through any of the FPS/Fighting games like this. Waving a controller around is one thing, but to actually have to do the kicking and crouching and jumping in the game? I can’t even imagine trying to go through Mirror’s Edge with this control system. Imagine running through Cyrodill! Sheesh.
I see this being fun for some short casual games (which looks like the way they’re going according to the demos).
no other words
edit new video posted as old one apparently didn’t want to work…..
and here’s the link to the big one that’s not so dark…I recommend seeing it there.
So it appears that hte beloved game company 3d Realms is closing it’s doors. A sad day because they had developed some great games. Plus it seams that Duke Nukem Forever will truly never be released.
Luckily, however, Duke Nukem is not dead.
This is a nice little game that’s extremely simple and fun to play around with. Simply fly your ship around dodging some blocks. Easy, right? 61985 is my high score after a couple tries.