Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
The Wii Fit might have some competition brewing, if Men’s Fitness magazine is a publication worthy of the public’s trust, that is. The details are vague, to say the very least but, here’s what we “know”: Dave Kushner, executive producer at EA Sports, told the magazine that the company is planning an ‘unnamed fitness game’ with a ‘new peripheral’ which will connect the Wiimote to the player’s body, enabling all sorts of newfangled measurements, movements, and exercises barely dreamed of before. Sounds totally awesome, right? Well, if and when it materializes, we’ll be sure to rush to the store, buy one, then sadly rue its unused, guilt-inducing existence every day thereafter.
[Via Nintendo Wii Fanboy]
EA plans a Wii Fit-slaying exercise game? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We heard some pretty far-fetched stuff back in June to the tune of a break-apart DualShock 3, and lo and behold, it seems that someone at Sony Computer Entertainment America is taking the idea quite seriously. A recent patent application was filed by the company, and it fairly clearly lays out the very kind of design we’d (not really) been expecting. In essence, the gamepad would consist of two pieces, each of which would utilize an “ultrasonic tracking system” for some type of game console / peripheral to recognize 3D inputs. Best of all, the approach here sounds significantly different enough from what’s used in the Wiimote that Sony could avoid months upon months of litigation — imagine that, right? It’s hard to say whether this stroke of genius will ever amount to anything, but at least there’s a chance, however minuscule.
[Via PS3 Fanboy]
Sony patent app details motion sensing break-apart controller originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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This week’s PlayStation Store update brings the promised demo for EA DICE’s first-person free-running action game Mirror’s Edge, along with a variety of other demos and downloadable add-on content.
In addition, Sony is running a one-week Halloween sale on SCE Japan’s downloadable survival horror title Siren: Blood Curse, offering episode bundles for $10.99 instead of $14.99, with the entire game going for $29.99 instead of $39.99.
SIREN: Blood Curse Halloween 1-week sale (from 10/30 - 11/6)
Full downloadable game for $29.99, or chapter bundles for $10.99/each.
Game Demos (fr…
Things will return to normal around here tomorrow as we are all making our way home and all that stuff. So uhm.. we’ll see you guys soon! Here is your evening chat thread refresh though at least. Looking forward to being home…
Not to be outdone by another open-world action game making an election-season publicity grab, presidential and vice-presidential candidates Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are to become playable characters in Pandemic’s Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (PC, 360, PS3, PS2).
G4 got the exclusive story from Pandemic’s Tom Stratton, who offered up this explanation:
Mercenaries 2 is a game seemingly ripped straight out of today’s headlines and fueled with the same type of over-the-top action found in the best summer blockbuster films. It only makes sense we inject the game with a spin on current affairs. The timing was too good to let pass.
The playable politicos are expected to be included in the explosive-laden game’s first paid downloadable content pack, which…
Update: EA community manager eaapoc, the bloke who started this whole affair, has acknowledged that his initial threat was “inaccurate and a mistake on my part.”
“If we suspend or ban you from the forums, that does not affect your in-game account and certainly it does not impact your in-game account for other games,” reads a new post. “I had a misunderstanding with regards to our new upcoming forums and website and never meant to infer that if we ban or suspend you on the forums, you would be banned in-game as well. This is not correct, my mistake, my bad.”
Original Story: A forum moderator’s threat that gamers could be banned from playing all of their EA-published games, such as Spore and C&C: Red Alert 3, for improper forum behavior was the result of a “misunderstanding,” Electronic Arts tells Shacknews.
Explai…
A forum moderator’s threat that gamers could be banned from playing all of their EA-published games, such as Spore and C&C: Red Alert 3, for improper forum behavior was the result of a “misunderstanding,” Electronic Arts tells Shacknews.
Explained Electronic Arts:
Posting in EA Forums is enabled by an EA Nucleus account — but access to the forums and access to the games are separate. Players who have been banned from EA Forums are not automatically banned from online access to their other EA games. Players can be banned if they breach the Terms of Service or Code of Conduct in a forum, game or service. Each forum, game and service is managed independently by customer support representatives responsible for that specific forum, game or service.
A similar threat emerged earlier this year, after a Spore moderator threate…
A forum moderator’s threat that gamers could be banned from playing EA-published games, such as Spore and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, for improper forum behavior was the result of a “misunderstanding,” Electronic Arts informed Shacknews.
The company clarified that forum bans will not extend to gameplay bans, as forum moderators can only revoke posting, not gameplay, privileges. Said EA:
Posting in EA Forums is enabled by an EA Nucleus account — but access to the forums and access to the games are separate. Players who have been banned from EA Forums are not automatically banned from online access to their other EA games. Players can be banned if they breach the Terms of Service or Code of Conduct in a forum, game or service. Each forum, game and service is managed independently by customer support representatives responsible for that specific forum, game or service.
A simila…
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An anonymous reader writes “A post on the EA Support Forums from APOC, online community manager for Electronic Arts, outlines a new policy for their new forums, saying users who earn a ban based on their behavior in the forums will be locked out of all of the EA games tied to that account: ‘Well, its actually going to be a bit nastier for those who get banned. Your forum account will be directly tied to your Master EA Account, so if we ban you on the forums, you would be banned from the game as well since the login process is the same. And you’d actually be banned from your other EA games as well since it’s all tied to your account. So if you have SPORE and Red Alert 3 and you get yourself banned on our forums or in-game, well, your SPORE account would be banned to. It’s all one in the same, so I strongly recommend people play nice and act mature. All in all, we expect people to come on here and abide by our ToS. We hate banning people, it makes our lives a lot tougher, but it’s what we have to do.’”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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The PSP has proven to be quite the popular system among hackers and modders of all sorts, but it looks like Sony has turned the tables a bit with its latest
PSP-3000 model (otherwise known as the PSP Brite), which has so far put up a stiff resistance against folks’ attempts to put it to some decidedly unofficial uses. Among other things, the PSP-3000 has apparently completely shut shutting down the popular
Pandora battery hack, and it’s even managed to stifle new attempts by heavyweight modders like Dark Alex to crack it open. One modder, known only as Royginald, even went so far as to swap the PSP-3000’s CPU out in favor of one from a PSP-2000, only to discover far too late that the 3000’s new interlaced video made the entire setup quite useless. Maybe that’s one of the “
features” Sony was talking about?
[Via PSP Fanboy]
PSP-3000 proving to be difficult for hackers to crack originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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