Soon You Can Play Games on Your Roku Box [Video]
Roku is branching outside its video streaming roots and bringing casual games to its set-top boxes this summer. More »
Posted: June 1st, 2011
at 7:00am by Kelly Hodgkins
Topics: Rovio, Streaming, angry birds, developers, game, netflix, roku, video
Yoga Natal game appears on GAME retailer’s Xbox 360 release schedule
Time for some more salacious prognostications about the future, courtesy of the wily folks over at vg247. The team there claims to have obtained internal documents from UK video game retailer GAME that lists the release dates for forthcoming Xbox 360 titles. The listing is headlined by new iterations of Crysis, Call of Duty and Metal Gear Solid, but the highlight for us gadget junkies is at the very end: Yoga Natal, scheduled for an October release. Now, even if this doc comes straight from the horse’s mouth, game release dates are notoriously prone to fluctuation, so let’s not read too much into that October date. What’s intriguing is that Microsoft does indeed seem intent on creating specialist games for its Natal experience, and it may be that they’ll all include Natal in their titles to make compatibility abundantly clear. Or this may be just a big bad April 1-related hoax, we’ll live either way.
[Thanks, Matt R.]
Yoga Natal game appears on GAME retailer’s Xbox 360 release schedule originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: March 29th, 2010
at 8:01am by Vladislav Savov
Topics: ConsoleGaming, Games, Gaming, Microsoft, MotionControl, MotionGaming, Natal, ProjectNatal, Videogames, Xbox, Xbox360, YogaNatal, console, console gaming, game, motion control, motion gaming, peripheral, project natal, video games, xbox 360, yoga, yoga natal
DJ Hero now rolling out around the world, around the world
It’s been a long haul since it was first announced way back in May, but Activision’s DJ Hero is now finally available in North America, and will be making the trip across the pond on October 30th. That includes both the standard $120 version, and the “premium” Renegade Edition, which runs a full $200 and includes an upgraded turntable, a hardshell carrying case that converts to a DJ stand, and a Jay-Z and Eminem two-CD set — and the game, of course. Anyone have any brief first impressions? Let us know in comments.
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DJ Hero now rolling out around the world, around the world originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 27th, 2009
at 1:48pm by Donald Melanson
Topics: DJ, DjHero, MusicGame, activision, dj hero, game, music game, turntable
Live Action Duck Hunter Review: Briefly Satisfies The Urge To Kill [Review]
Being a fan of the classic NES Duck Hunt, I have been anxious to test out this new live action mechanical version from Hammacher Schlemmer. I’ll say this: It’s fun while it lasts.
The Price
Available later this month for $30.
What’s Good
I’ve never hunted actual ducks, but I would imagine that the real experience offers up a similar (albeit more intense) mixture of fleeting thrills, unpredictability and satisfying violence as the game—except this way you don’t actually have to kill anything. Plus the action sounds the gun makes when pumping the forearm and pulling the trigger are a nice touch.
What’s Bad
As I mentioned earlier, this game is fun in short increments. The typical flight lasted anywhere between 5 and 15 seconds depending on how I set the directional control pad near the tail. As you can see in the videos above, setting the tab for a straighter flight tends to keep the duck up in the air longer while setting it more to the left or right results in shorter, more compact flights. Either way, the flights were inconsistent and it was difficult to get hits before the duck glided naturally to the ground. They say you can play this game indoors, and that’s probably true if “indoors” happens to be a gymnasium.
You will break Duck Hunter. Seriously, even if you didn’t get tired of the game after a few hours of flying, you will probably break it well before that. The infrared gun feels cheap and the bird is nothing more than a piece of styrofoam with a few bits of plastic and wings that have about the same tensile strength as masking tape. Every time I pushed the duck down on the charging post located on the barrel of the gun I thought I would snap something. And that happens a lot because you need to charge it for 10 seconds after each flight.
The Verdict
The $30 price tag isn’t a fortune, but that’s probably more than you want to spend on something that will end up forgotten or broken in a few weeks. Early on, there was talk of a premium, $40 version that could be remotely controlled by a second person—I’m not sure what happened with that, but it might have been a worthwhile upgrade.
Definitely feels like a live action version of the Duck Hunt NES game.
Gun sounds and the mid-air “stumbles” when the duck is hit are a nice touch.
Flights are inconsistent. Patterns are hard to contain, so it is best used in a large open space.
The equipment feels cheap and fragile.
PSP Go already discounted in the UK
Oop. So much for the PSP Go’s premium “aspirational” pricing — several UK retailers have already discounted Sony’s newest handheld to £199 ($319) after launch weekend. That’s not a massive drop from the £224 ($358) MSRP, but it’s still pretty notable, especially considering the PSP-3000 has an MSRP of £139 ($221). No wonder Sony thinks the Go will drive PSP-3000 purchases — too bad it couldn’t figure out a way to make the Go interesting enough to sell itself.
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PSP Go already discounted in the UK originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 5th, 2009
at 5:16pm by Nilay Patel
Topics: PlaystationPortable, PspGo, PspGoPricing, amazon, game, go, hmv, playstation, playstation portable, pricing, psp, psp go, psp go pricing, pspgo pricing, sony
