Gaming

XRKade Video Game Gym For Tween and Teen Fatties

We have all heard the stories about childhood obesity and how parents often blame the problem on distractions like television and video games. However, Denver-based iTech Fitness aims to turn those distractions into solutions with their new line of XRKade gyms for kids. XRKades mix physical activity and video games to make exercising more fun and engaging. In order to ...

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Virtual Reality Headset For The Style Conscious Consumer

This virtual reality headset concept entitled “Intense” is a testament to the twisted mind of designer Benjamin Hubert. According to his website “feedback from a sensory rich reality directly stimulates the brain via a chip in the motor cortex of the brain.” In other words, direct cerebral stimulation is your ticket to kick ass VR gaming and an alternate universe ...

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How To: Make A Giant Screen Nintendo DS

If you would like to take all of the portable fun out of the Nintendo DS by supersizing it, be prepared to shell out around $600 for parts. Still with me? If so, check out the link below to find out everything you need to put one of these together yourself. On the other hand, you could simply offer the ...

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Nissan Mixim Concept Car Aimed At Gamers

Nissan is aiming the Mixim, their new fully electric concept vehicle squarely at the internet generation with its game controller inspired steering wheel and cockpit style interior. According to Shiro Nakamura, Sr. VP at Nissan: “It combines a sociable three plus one interior with controls and visual projections that are familiar to the computer generation. And it uses environmentally-friendly battery ...

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Video Game ID Bracelets for arcade style

Those of you who remember patrolling the game arcades will remember the method of high score ranking on arcade game machines. You’d put in your three initials, or whatever three letters you used as a tag. Surprisingly enough, the letter ranking was one thing I had a hard time figuring out, which meant my initials always came out as “AAA”. ...

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Make Your Own DrumPants: Become a Cyborg Musician

We all know you like playing with yourself and with DrumPants you finally can…in public! Tyler “odbol” Freeman, like most young adults, likes to drum his pants. The only difference is that he dared to dream about what it would be like if pounding on his pants actually produced drum sounds. Now, with the help of his handy instruction guide, ...

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Turn Your PSP Into A Touchscreen…Cheap!

We all know that the DS has been spanking the PSP in terms of sales, and the touchscreen featured on Nintendo’s handheld platform is a major reason why. Now PSP owners can get in on the action (sort of) thanks to the folks at SparkFun. For a mere $23.95 you can pick up this PSP display add on that gives ...

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Pirates And Ninjas Go Head To Head In a Dodgeball Smackdown

For years I have been wondering when a game company would finally get around to developing a title where pirates and ninjas engage in a rubber ball based battle to the death. Finally, Gamecock Media has stepped up to the plate today and announced that they will be publishing Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball. So the age old question, “who would ...

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World of Whorecraft, and why a poor whore got banned

Mia Rose, porn star and avid WoW player, was surprised to find her level 70 Undead Warlock banned from from popular MMORPG with apparently no reason. The cause for this consequence? It seems that Mia Rose had starred as a horny elf in a porno flick titled, World of Whorecraft. Apparently, the people over at Blizzard don’t take too kindly ...

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Crane games are out, meet RoboCrane

Those damn crane games frustrate us so much. All we want it the little stuffed monkey, and we keep getting the ugly gray stuffed rhino. Or sometimes nothing at all. That’s why we usually stick to the “play until you win” type crane games. RoboCrane is a new Japanese crane style game that could make these games interesting again. Users ...

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