Soccer Heroes

With a different controller the entire game changes. Creating a team based play experience! It takes some practice, but in the end it's worth it.

Custom controllers YES or NO? I drum YES!

I think that in the perfect world there would be a custom controller for every game.
And music games have shown in the past years that it really pays of to create a custom controller for those games. It enhances the total experience, and it might even give you some benefit in real world music playing too. Check out the vid below. A dude playing some extreme drums in Drummania with a drum kit from GoodWoodMods and a bass pedal from rockbandpedal.net



Maybe you wonder why you haven't seen more of Drummania state side? That's because John Devecka holds the US patent for "drum simulation games" which in turn was bought by Activision for use in the Guitar Hero series! Ow, and BTW Drummania is also a decade old!

I am going to patent "Bagpipe simulation games" right now, gonna be richt I tell ya!

Bulldog playing Tony Hawks Ride

Although you can tell that parts of this vid are staged (360). The dog is obviously addicted to riding a skateboard. Look at it changing position and reacting to the screen. Send me vids of your pet controlling a video game!


The vid below shows a Bulldog doing the samething but in real life!

New Natal hardware video

Almost impossible to see in this video. But the tiny blob on top of that flashscreen tv is the latest project Natal hardware. Although the video doesn't show the entire presentation, Peter and a colleague showed of the famous Milo presentation using the new hardware succesfully. The hardware looked ready for production.

New Natal hardware spotted in the wild

During a speech of Peter Molyneux at the Game in the City event in the Netherlands past Thursday I spotted a new itteration of the Natal hardware. I am sorry for the blurry pictures (actually blame Nokia). But you can see that it's become a LOT smaller than the previous version of the Natal hardware. It was equiped with some kind of flexible arms to be able to clamp it on top of any flatscreen, or create a kind of tri-pod out of it so it can stand on a flat surface. Although very nifty, it didn't look very good design wise.





Blurry zoom:


The old version of Natal, can you spot the difference.

Dutch Prime Minister is catching some virtual waves, and likes it!

Dutch Prime Minister Mr. Balkenende can't get enough of Ship Simulator Professional.
After performing an in-game opening ritual for Europort Exhibition 2009. Mr. Balkenende just can't get enough of it. He keeps going at it for a few extra minutes until someone steps in and stops his play time.

Space Invaders show their real identity

Whenever you think of those cute little Space Invaders, think again! They where actually quite realistic top-down, representation of the actual space ships. So, if you ever thought they where bugs, your proven wrong.



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Endless Racing Game for iPhone

I came accross this smart advergame from a Dutch insurance company. Just make sure you've got plenty of iPhones laying around to play it. It uses bluetooth to sync the different devices together.

Oops... silly mii... this guy must have thought

A Home Shopping Network presentor kills a nice LG LCD screen around the 5:05 mark.
Remember to ALWAYS put on your silly wrist band AND put the crappy attachments on there all the way.

Game nails

A bit weird, but I thought it was worth a mention nonetheless. It is not a condition you suffer when playing lot's of games. But it's something for the ladies to show their love for gaming. Take a look. What do you think!