Gadgets and Video Games

We’ve just announced two Holiday bundles that will make great gifts this Holiday season.

The first chapter of Fable II: Game Episodes is now available for free to all Xbox LIVE members. For those who have watched from the outside, unsure if they were hero material, a surprise awaits.

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Move over Johnny Lee . Now that you’ve gone corporate , there’s a new student researcher in town ready to take up your mantle. What mantle is that, you ask? The “show us cool tech that can be used in video games via YouTube” mantle, of course.

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A peek (and head tilt) into the future: head-tracking in FPS games

The good news? We’ve got a copy of Jonathan Coulton’s latest project to give away. It’s a double-disc set that features a DVD full of videos from his “Best. Concert. Ever.” that was filmed in San Francisco last year, and a CD packed with the music from the same event.

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Joyswag: Jonathan Coulton’s latest CD / DVD ‘Best. Concert. Ever.’

Codemasters’ Fuel is big , and while some may argue that size doesn’t matter, they’re probably just jealous of the open-world racer’s immense girth. In fact, the upcoming off-road racing game was recently crowned by Guinness World Records for having the largest playable environment in a console game ever with 5,560 square miles of accessible in-game terrain. To help us wrap our heads around how big that is, the Codies say that’s larger than Hong Kong, Singapore, St Lucia and the Isle of Man put together

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Fuel sets Guinness record as biggest console game ever