Microsoft has a hit on its hands with Kinect, a motion-sensing camera for the Xbox 360, but it’s not keeping the secrets of the technology to itself.
A new video, courtesy of New Scientist (and embedded above), shows how Kinect’s camera first grabs a rough outline of the person standing in front of it, and then evaluates every pixel …
Few believed it would happen, but happen it did: Duke Nukem came back from the brink of the vaporware abyss. Gearbox–developer of addictive “RPS” Borderlands–acquired the Duke IP when 3D Realms shut its doors forever last year and set to work finishing up the decade-plus dev cycle that DNF’s been through. May 3 (U.S.) and May 6 …
Crysis 2
Publisher: EA
Developer: Crytek
Systems it’s available on: PC, PS3, Xbox 360
ESRB rating: Mature
System reviewed on: Xbox 360
The original Crysis set an altogether new level of expectation as to how detailed and graphically impressive a video game could look like. “Can it play Crysis?” became shorthand for how robust a …
In honor of Facebook streaming MLB on the site, I figured you would want some tips on MLB 2K11 to get you in the baseball mood. 2K Games’ MLB 2K11 team came up with these pointers that break down the basics of the game.
Make the most of the Inside Edge data
Take advantage of your matchup against a batter by throwing to his …
It looks like game developer BioWare’s been caught out posting Metacritic reviews of its own game, just-released roleplaying sequel Dragon Age II. Not only that, game publisher Electronic Arts essentially owned up to the deed, trying to write it off by telling Kotaku:
“Of course the people who make the game vote for their own game… …
So, maybe my preview of the upcoming Batman game didn’t do it for you. Maybe you need to see just how massive and expanded the Dark Knight’s next adventure will be. Well, this new trailer shows off the new locomotion elements, upgraded combat and, of course, thugs and villains galore.
In addition to all of that, Arkham City will …
Lots of wartime atrocities happen in Homefront: Mass graves, the brutal immolation of enemies and allies and the slaughter of innocents.
But a real-world atrocity hit publisher THQ’s stock yesterday in the wake of lukewarm reviews for its new first-person shooter. The company’s share price went from $5.94 to $4.69, a drop of more than …
Ready for a realistic tennis-playing experience? 2K Games’ Top Spin 4 lets you play as one of the pros so you don’t have to be represented by a cartoon avatar that no one will mistake for John McEnroe. Instead of just having your friends clap for you as you score that winning point, the game features an attentive crowd that responds to …
Everyone knows those creepy-crawly planet-slaying Reapers are earthbound in Mass Effect 3, but maybe the alien invasion actually happens before the game arrives sometime this holiday. Place your bets?
I’m talking about that new screenshot up top, mysteriously tweeted by BioWare as from Mass Effect 2, and which may just be a peek at …
War’s a staple setting a huge chunk of the hundreds of big-budget video games that come out every year. Last year’s best-selling games–Halo: Reach and Call of Duty: Black Ops–both took place in the midst of military actions.
But there’s one thing most war games fail to communicate and that’s the tragedy that results from all the …
Because Techland loves you, we’re giving away five codes for Microsoft’s new Halo: Reach “Defiant” map pack, out today. Hey, we’re talking $10 worth of map pack here, or 800 Microsoft Points.
“Defiant” comes packed with three new battleground maps set in some fairly wild-sounding spaces. There’s one that transpires on an orbital space …
You know what Sunday without football is? Just another miserable 24 hours before Monday. With the worrisome breakdown of talks between the NFL owners and players leading to a lockout, football fans must contend with the worst-case scenario: there may be no football this fall.
It’s a grim possibility. Hell, even a lifelong nerd like me …
