See? This is what happens when you don’t believe me. You Wii owners must be really fucking excited by now. A vitality sensor add-on! It can measure your heartbeat! Guess what? You can do it without Nintendo’s overpriced hunk of plastic. Take two fingers, place on wrist, feel for pule – voila. I pity the fool who throws away their ...
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Sony Unveils Motion Controller
So you thought Microsoft was gonna steal the show at E3 with its ‘Project Natal‘ demo? Wrong! Sony swept into E3 yesterday and showed off its version of full-body motion control, appropriately titled “The PlayStation Motion Controller.” The new controller is a stick and according to Gizmodo, it’s the best motion control yet. Fast and accurate, it uses the PS ...
Read More »The 25th Anniversary of Tetris
I can’t even begin to tell you how many countless hours of my life were once wasted on Tetris for the original Nintendo Game Boy. I was 3 or 4 years old and would play the living shit out of that game. My mother would too and could easily reach levels upwards of 100. I suppose that on the 25th ...
Read More »Big Surprise: Microsoft Announces Full Motion Controller
In a move to compete with Sony and Nintendo, Microsoft today did a blitzkrieg of announcements involving the Xbox 360. Dubbed ‘Project Natal’, the next step for the Xbox 360 will involve a full-body controller that senses a player’s motion. Think of the failed Sega Genesis peripheral, the Activator, except done right. It uses a camera to capture motion made ...
Read More »The Ford 021c Concept Car
Ten years ago, this little bugger known as the 021c concept from Ford was unveiled. Universally despised, the car never made it to production due to the wild, radical design of Marc Newson, a furniture designer who had never worked on a car in his life. Sure, back in 1999, consumers weren’t ready for shit like this. But in today’s ...
Read More »Look At This Hot Mess From 1990s
Oh boy. What a trainwreck. What a fanboy. What a character. Peep that sick Nintendo Fun Club t-shirt. And his DIY entertainment cabinet? Priceless. This dude is fucking serious about his Punch-Out! Link
Read More »Armin Van Buuren’s “In The Mix”
While the upcoming DJ Hero and Scratch titles will be the first games of their kind to hit the next-gen console circuit, Nintendo is going another route and trying something a little different. Rather than rely on hip-hop as a selling point, it’s teamed up with popular DJ Armin Van Buuren to created In The Mix. The game will allows ...
Read More »Lux Solar Necklace
What do you get when you combine Blade Runner, the Sun and Kate Moss?A piece of “jewelry” known as the Lux. It’s a solar panel necklace that you wear around at day and when night comes, the pretty white lights come on. With two hours of sunlight a day, you can light up the night bright as a kite for ...
Read More »Afternoon Linkage for April 21st, 2009
IF $wit == the_links { godhelp(usall) } else { readOn; } Pull the fuck over Apple fucks up Rep-Rap makes its first circuit Build your own turntable! Cute, but what’s the point? More news on the iPhone OS 3.0 Have great links you want showcased on Afternoon Linkage? E-mail us: tips AT gearfuse DOT com.
Read More »GTA: Chinatown Wars Has Lackluster Sales
This has gotta hurt the ego of Take-Two and Rockstar Games. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the latest iteration of GTA on the Nintendo DS, hasn’t been selling. At all. Since its release in March, it’s sold a mere 88,704 copies. Compare that with over 7 million copies of GTA IV and you have a complete massacre. Business Insider thinks ...
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