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Soon gamers won’t just be wrestling with their controllers. The controllers will be fighting back.
“Button-mashing” used to be entirely a matter of player skill meeting the impossible difficulty of a game, ultimately ending with the controller being hurled at the screen in frustration. Engineers from the University of Utah are taking the concept to the next level with a new videogame controller.
New motion-sensing prototype turns your body into a screen.
The Kinect’s technology is largely controlled by the physical borders around it—the finite space between the single-camera -holding-console and the user that can detect movements with an adequate level of precision. Chris Harrison, a researcher at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie
Play of the Day: Bauhaus Break is as cold and unforgiving as the art school it was named after.
Michel McBride-Carpentier’s new title Bauhaus Break is a “casual drop & match game for iOS influenced by Set and Drop7, with a Constructivist art style.” It’s also a bit tough as you have to match similar object by similarity or difference. But the aesthetic sensibility is quite the highlight as Mc-
New music game turns the rhythm of live drums into virtual tug-of-war.
Renaud Hallée wrote us about the protoype of his new game “Tambour.” The visuals are sparse, but the concept is fascinating. Two drummers, one battle. Each player sends armies of notes against the other to vie for rhythmic supremecy. Take a look. Video -Jamin Warren
What does it say about games and gay rights that Commander Shepard can finally be a gay man in Mass Effect 3?
So this game Mass Effect 3 came out today, and if online videogame journals teach me anything, it’s a pretty big deal. Longtime fans of the series and newcomers alike wondered: what’s going to happen to Shepard and his multispecies team of intergalactic ass-kickers? Will the third act tie everything
PAUSE: Spanish artist’s more than 2,000 tennis balls make moves in gallery.
As part of an installation, Ana Soler‘s more than 2,000 tennis balls dot the Mustang Art Gallery. [Via Pulmonaire]
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