A motion designer in South Korea that goes by the name WooDUS made this clever animation that shows how Tetris blocks are made. Tetris recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.
The Georgia Tech Augmented Environments Lab and the Savannah College of Art and Design have designed an interesting augmented reality game called "ARhrrrr." The game involves killing zombies but not the innocent people inside a zombie-stricken city.
The phone provides a window into a 3d town overrun with zombies. Point the camera at our special game map to mix virtual and real world content. Civilians are trapped in the town, and must escape before the zombies eat them! From your vantage point in a helicopter overhead, you must shoot the zombies to clear the path for the civilians to get out. Watch out though as the zombies will fight back, throwing bloody organs to bring down your copter. Move the phone quickly to dodge them. You can also use Skittles as tangible inputs to the game, placing one on the board and shooting it to trigger an explosion.
One interesting feature of the game is that you can place actually skittles inside the game and they turn into bombs. Take a look:
Dart champion Phil Taylor is helping promote the Wii darts game, PDC Championship Darts. The experts say the dart game is great practice for real darts. GameSpot has information about theg ame here. Here's a video from IDN showing Phil Taylor playing the game.
Jimmy Fallon got an opportunity to try out Microsoft's Project Natal on the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. The system looks just as impressive and innovative as it did Microsot's videos that introduced the system. It's too bad it may be a while before Microsoft actually has its novel controller-less console on the market.
Conan Responds to Allegations His Set Resembles Super Mario
A blog called Serious Lunch speculated that the backdrop on Conan O'Brien's set resembles the Super Mario game. The speculation was false but Conan's reaction to it was pretty funny. Take a look:
Electronic Arts organized a fake protest at the E3 Expo. The fake protestors were upset about EA's Dante's Inferno title.
The game publisher hired a group of nearly 20 people to stand outside the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles on Wednesday and appear to protest the upcoming EA game "Dante's Inferno." EA spokeswoman Holly Rockwood says the stunt was arranged by a viral marketing agency hired by EA.
The fake protesters claimed the game glorified eternal damnation. The fake protest organization even has a website here. It's pretty amusing but sometimes these publicity stunts can be confusing if they seem real and confuse journalists.
You can read more about EA's publicity stunt here, here and here.
Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball is a great name and idea for a video game. The Wii controller can be used to hurl dodgeballs at your opponent. In additin to Ninjas and Pirates, OhGizmo says you can also play robots, zombies, aliens, and mushroom men.
The game is published by SouthPeak Games. There is an Xbox version as well. Here's a trailer:
You get to play John Connor and destroy Skynet in the Terminator Salvation video game. The third-person shooter is set two years ahead of the plot of the Teriminator Salvationmovie. The game developers were in the same production studio as the film guys to make the film. Maybe that's what drove Christian Bale crazy on the set. The website for the game can be found at terminatorsalvationthegame.com.
G4TV previews some of the big games expected to be revealed at E3 Expo 2009. G4TV will have its E3 coverage here beginning June 1st. Some of the big titles at E3 include Alpha Protocol, God of War 3, Mass Effect 2, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Heavy Rain, Bayonetta, Bioshock 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Final Fantasy XIII and Halo 3. Take a look:
The classic game Punch Out is now available for the Wii. If the name "Glass Joe" rings a bell then you have probably played the game before. He is the easiest opponent weighing just 110 pounds. Joystiq has gathered up several reviews for Punch-Outhere. They say it may not be a TKO but it is "is certainly a knock-out."
Swinefighter allows you to get revenge on the virus that has been dominated the news. It's a pretty simple game. You just go around trying to disinfect flying pigs.Reuters has a video of someone playing the game if you would prefer to watch. Reuters notes that the game also offers recommendations from the U.S. Center of Disease Control on how to avoid contracting the flu. You can find the CDC's official swine flu resources here. Links to more H1N1 swine flu resources can be found here.
The Castle Wolfenstein games have been around since the early days of computing. There's a new Wolfenstein in development from Activision Blizzard. Here's a promotional cinematic trailer for the game. It's great when the games take plot seriously. Destructoid has more details about the game - which will have a supernatural element - here.
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