Gadgets and Video Games

We’re seated at the annual Independent Games Festival / Game Developers Choice event in San Francisco, absorbing the din of dedicated developers celebrating their craft. It’s about to begin! Continue reading Joystiq live at the IGF/GDC Awards 2010 Joystiq live at the IGF/GDC Awards 2010 originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .

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Joystiq live at the IGF/GDC Awards 2010

It’s an awfully nice gesture of Sony to invite us to its GDC 2010 press conference — and it’s one where we expect to see some equally nice gestures. That’s a Motion Controller joke, folks. Check back by 4:00PM PST (7PM EST) to catch our full and irritatingly detailed liveblog! Continue reading Joystiq live at Sony’s GDC 2010 press conference Joystiq live at Sony’s GDC 2010 press conference originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds

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During its GDC press conference , Sony announced that the PlayStation motion controller — newly dubbed PlayStation Move — will launch in several different packages to accommodate the various gamers out there. Sony is planning an “aggressive” marketing campaign around the new peripheral when it launches later this year and — similar to Microsoft’s launch plans for Project Natal — it will treat the launch of the PlayStation Move as a separate “platform launch.” There will be multiple bundles, including a bundle that includes a PlayStation 3 console, the PlayStation Move and the PlayStation Eye. Furthermore, the company will launch a starter pack, which includes a PlayStation Move, a PlayStation Eye and an unnamed game all for under $100.

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PlayStation Move bundles announced, starter kit under $100

You can blame us … and we can blame Game Rave ’s Jason Dvorak. You can’t unsee Bomberman in BioShock 2 originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds

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Bro, you ever get that feeling, like, everyone’s laughing at you? Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list: Last updated: Monday, 10:30 AM Continue reading Now Playing: January 11-17, 2010 Now Playing: January 11-17, 2010 originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

It begins: Q1 2010. Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list: Last updated: Monday, 2:10 PM Continue reading Now Playing: January 4-10, 2010 Now Playing: January 4-10, 2010 originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

Our elderly readers may remember all the way back in October of 2009 when we showed you the first video of Microsoft Research’s muscle-based game control interface . While it’d be a safe bet to say that the project is still very much in the prototype phase, the experimental division of Microsoft recently filed a patent application for the “Wearable Electromyography-based Controller for Human-Computer Interface”, effectively bringing us all one step closer to a future with fully realized air guitar . Sure, the interface could be used for “computer stuff” or something we suppose, but what’d be the fun in that? Though, as Engadget points out, we’re not likely to see anything more solid on this in the near future — most Microsoft Research projects are “pretty far from market.” That being said, a combination of muscle sensor-based control and the not quite 1:1 video capture of Project Natal could produce some rather intriguing results

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Microsoft patents EMG muscle controller, is one step closer to Air Guiar Hero

Gamasutra has posted an interesting analysis of the treatment of sexuality in Uncharted 2 . The article mainly focuses on Chloe , which the author, Tom Cross, describes as “a smart, competent, sexually aware pointedly heterosexual female character.” The article further notes that Chloe, in an unusual turn for most video games, “constantly disagrees with and harries the main male character, sometimes out of self-interest and sometimes out of deeply felt connection and respect.” While Cross notes that Uncharted 2 sticks to common story tropes and character arcs, he acknowledges the “incredible quality of Among Thieves ‘ script, story, and acting,” noting that the main cast are “some of the most fun, interesting, inoffensive characters in video games.” We’re inclined to agree. After all, Uncharted 2 didn’t take Joystiq’s top honors for nothing. Uncharted 2’s sexual politics examined originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:32:00 EST.

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Go ahead, jump. Jump! Choose your platform to jump to a specific release list: Last updated: Monday, 12:15 PM Continue reading Now Playing: December 21-27, 2009 Now Playing: December 21-27, 2009 originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

On Major Nelson’s weekly podcast — with a host left laughing and teary-eyed due to the Xbox head’s dental-related lisp — Aaron Greenberg did some NPD boasting before ruminating on the first half of 2010. After pointing out Mass Effect 2 , Splinter Cell Conviction , and Alan Wake , he confirmed Crackdown 2 as part of Microsoft’s list of “triple-A, exclusive” titles heading to the Xbox 360 during “the first half of the year.” “Those are just the exclusives, that doesn’t include Final Fantasy … there’s no way we had a first half of the year like that last year,” Greenberg added.

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