Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks

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The sensor device that is used has an RGB camera, depth sensor, multi-array microphone and can detect full body 3D motion capture, facial recognition, and voice recognition.   I’m surprised how well the sensors interpret the physical movement – it seems pretty accurate!

I would love to see the sensor device reach beyond gaming and make it’s way into productivity applications.  It would sure beat capturing gestures with a webcam like we’ve seen others doing.

For more complete coverage of the demonstrations of Natal at E3, check out my buddy’s new blog, Atom6. He’s got some more videos posted there as well.

They were invited to a Forza Demo Event where there were real cars setup that attendees would get test in-game.  While the prominent aspect of every racing game is how well the cars simulate real cars, Corner Balance claims that even “The graphics were insanely beautiful– the scenery of mountains and ridges in the background were very photo realistic.”  They also said that “each of the cars had very distinctive feel to them and the in-cockpit view is pretty slick.”  The games current release date is set for October – and I’ll definitely be looking forward to playing it.

For a little background on Forza:

Forza is Microsoft’s answer to the Gran Turismo series of games, and even though the Gran Turismo series has been around for a long time, Forza really holds its own.  When the original Forza came out enjoyed Forza more than Gran Turismo because the physics engine seemed more realistic and the gameplay was faster – you actually felt like you were in a car instead of playing a video game.  I’m definitely excited for the third release!

For all the possible information that you could be looking for on Forza 3, head over to this website.

Microsoft is going to release a TouchPack for Windows 7 that will come bundled with the Retail version of Windows 7. This pack includes some multitouch applications, including some games.  Looks like it should be fun times at your nearest Win7 machine.

Take little trip to the past with Orioto’s videogame remake images.  Above is a remake of Zelda (duh .

Many thanks to Mikaël Aguirre (Orioto on deviantART) for these beautiful creations.  You are truly talented.

Warning: only read this if you are REALLY interested in wondering what Kirby tastes like, or if you want to be completely confused as to how this topic would even become a point of discussion…

I’m not saying it’s a bad article, it’s just… why?

UPDATE: Yes, I think this might be fake despite the course website (which has a counter that’s really low at 185 – like it was created today).  One website also claims to have an interview with the course instructor.  I did a WHOIS look up on the course website domain and it’s registered to AttractSoft – doesn’t sound like Berkeley to me…

Regardless – I can’t wait for StarCraft 2 to come out! [Via CrunchGear]

“The grand prize winner will live large at MIX09 – they’ll receive a pass to the MIX09 event, 3 nights at The Venetian Hotel and a $1500 Visa gift card. The community choice winner will receive a $1500 visa gift card. And, three runners-up will each receive a $500 Visa gift card. Winners will be notified after the close of community rating on February 13, 2009.”

Check out the entries and vote for your favorites!  Here are a couple of my favorite Mix 10K contest entries (though I’ve hardly looked at many of them):

Title: Verdant [click to visit entry]
Creator: Karim Hernandez
Type: Game
Technology: Silverlight
Description: Growth bends toward the sun. Rain water sustains growth. Collect as much as you can. Too much growth slows you down. Succeed and you may multiply.
Rules: From the creator: “The more cells that are visible, the slower the rate of growth.  At the beginning, you have a grace period of 50 rain drops before your ratio of lost over captured drops kicks in. Maintain less than 25% lost droplets or you’ll lose : ) Hope you enjoy the game.”
My take: Sweet little “going green” application.  If only the real life “going green” issues were this easy.  Save the earth? Unlimited retries – FTW!  High score gets elected president.  Ready?  Go.

Title: SilverRubix [Click to visit entry]
Creator: Timmy Kokke
Type: Game
Technology: Silverlight
Description: SilverRubix is a 3D Rubik’s Cube in Silverlight. Drag your mouse next to the cube to rotate it. Click the cube to turn it’s faces. When you’re done, post your time and number of moves below. Good Luck!
My Take: Sweet application, BUT: it was a little difficult to navigate the cube once you rotated it 180 degrees.  Left becomes right and right becomes left, etc…  It actually made it so difficult that I only finished two of the three layers.  Still, this is a great example of work done in under 10K.  I still enjoyed it and played it more than once!

Dont forget to check out all the other submissions.  Vote for your favorites and feel free to leave comments.