From the creative insaine minds at ThinkGeek comes the most superfluous accessory since the WiiZapper; the WiiHelm. Now instead of flapping your arms around and possibly looking a bit silly you can wrench your neck. The website does little to convince that the product is needed, especially with lines like “…the average gaming geek is just not up to the strenuous task of vigorous arm movement for longer than 10 minutes. This makes those extended play sessions a thing of the past…” Yes it certainly would put a damper in one’s play time when they loose equilibrium from swinging their head around like a special ed kid. But at least that beats having the remote slip out of your hand and break your tv.
For those curious how exactly the helm would work with the motion controls, thankfully they provided a video of the product in action
I was just about to go to bed when I noticed that I had new RSS feed stuff from GAME Watch. AQ Interactive is releasing the KORG DS-10 Synthesizer in July. KORG is a very popular synthesizer and sequencer company. I grew up in a music store that had a pretty decent sized synth department, so when I saw the big KORG logo, I was immediately intrigued. Very much like a full sized keyboard, you can record tracks using different sounds and mix them all together with a built-in drum machine.
The touch screen is used to do things like input notes and change sound levels. There’s even online WiFi support for multiplayer. According to the official website, this product is being demonstrated at the Musikmesse in Germany this month, which is probably the world’s largest music trade show. And if you’re curious about how it sounds, the official site has a demo song. Pretty cool stuff.
Ok I know the whole Nintendo Seal of Quality thing is bullshit but come on. I wouldn’t waste my time with this if it was a free flash game.
What’s even more ridiculous is that this is actually a port of an arcade game released in 2004. Arcade Link
Konami Hype/Shame Page
“Originally an arcade game created by legendary designer Eugene Jarvis (Defender, Robotron: 2084, and Cruis’n series), Target: Terror puts you in the place of an elite anti-terrorist agent who is charged with protecting the U.S. from all terrorist activities.”
Who else thinks Eugene is in his 80’s and hitting the bottle a little too hard these days?
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Or import S-Video cables for that matter. THEY DO NOT OUTPUT GAMEPLAY TO YOUR TV OR VIDEO CAPTURE DEVICE. ARGGH!
Oh I guess I should have looked this up on the internet before I bought the cables or maybe I should read the tiny bolded line on the back of the box that says they’re ONLY for videos and pictures. WHAT IN THE FLYING @!%!?!
Component are the only cables that output gameplay to your TV apparently and it sounds like they don’t even do it that well.
DEAR SONY I WANT TO SHOOT YOU IN THE FACE.
So if you want the right cables click here.
On May 29th you can take a step back in time nearly 20 years and pay full price for it at the same time.
“Back in the summer of 1986, Bandai released a fitness game titled Family Trainer: Athletic World on the 8-bit Famicom which shipped with a flimsy mat controller. The idea was to get kids off the couch and in motion with simple mini-games that were played by stepping on the circular cues located on top of the mat. Sales were mediocre and Bandai eventually abandoned hopes of starting a video game fitness craze.”
Then:
Now:
The more things change, the more things stay the same?
Via NCSX
In the latest salvo in the let’s-claim-credit-for-a-commonly-used-term-that-we-didn’t-even-create War(TM), Finnish software company Futuremark Games Studio filed papers on February 26, 2008 to protect the trademark “Pwnage” in relation to:
“… computer game software; computer game programs; computer game discs; interactive multimedia computer game program; downloadable ring tones, … multimedia software recorded on CD-ROM featuring fictional characters and computer games; pre-recorded DVD’s, video tapes, laser discs featuring movies about fictional characters, and pre-recorded compact discs featuring music; motion picture films on fictional characters…”.
Kotaku
So don’t go saying or writing Pwnage or Finland will charge you!
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