The Nintendo DSi has been released a few months back, but I haven’t had the urge to buy one since I already have a DS Lite, and there are no new games in the market that utilize the new features.
Until now.
Ghostwire is an augmented-reality game that let’s you hunt ghosts using your Nintendo DSi.
According to developer A Different Game,
Your portable device is used as a portal to the astral plane, and helps you find and collect ghosts that exist all around you. In your quest you use real tools, such as the built-in camera and microphone, as well as abstract ones like an “EMF tuner” for tracking down the ghosts.
Once you find the spirits, you document them and find out why they haunt our world. They also give you riddles to solve. Ultimately, you will help them find peace.
As far as I can see, this is just motion-tracking with a layer of ghost images for you to ‘interact’ with. But since it promises full-game immersion, it’s a good reason to buy the DSi soon. It reminds me of the game Fatal Frame, with the main difference of holding the ‘camera’ and hunt the ghosts yourself to zero in on that ‘fatal frame’ shot.
No announcements for the release date yet, but you can check out the official game trailer below:
Cupcakes are always nice. But give it a bit of geek/gamer twist and they become much nicer. Too nice, in fact, that I’d probably have second thoughts about eating these babies. Check out these super cool game-themed cupcakes featuring all your favorite games from days of yore – Space Invaders, Pacman and Super Mario.
More casting news for some more movie adaptations of geekdom classics. Next stop after that crazy news about the Justice League movie, we have Street Fighter. Probably an attempt to coincide with the release of the new Street Fighter 4 game to double up on the publicity. The first SF movie sucked so much that I got jaded with SF for quite some time after. Even Kylie Minogue was a letdown playing Cammy with too much cover.
Anyway, they’re at it again. So far, and the confirmed “stars” to be in the movie:
Kristen Kreuk – Chun Li
Neil McDonough – M. Bison
Michael Clark Duncan – Balrog
Chris Klein – Charlie
Taboo of The Black Eyed Peas – Vega
Rick Yune – Gen
Ooowkay. So you get a Canadienne to play someone Chinese? It might work because of some of Kristin Kreuk’s features but she doesn’t look Chinese to me. But hey, Kristin Kreuk? In (hopefully the old) Chun-li uniform? I don’t think a lot of hot-blooded males will be complaining. Michael Clark Duncan is one large dude that might do the job. Neil McDonough will always be that guy from Boomtown who’s from Band of Brothers for me.
As long as it doesn’t have Van Damme, I’m okay with it.
Remember that LEGO Star Wars? Quite interesting wasn’t it? Especially if you’re a fan of both LEGO and Star Wars. Then how about this? LEGO Batman. Yahoo! For a guy who asked for nothing else but LEGO sets for Christmas (yes, I am a retard), and a Batman fan at that, this is just a treat.
And while it coincides with the year the new Batman movie will be coming out, this doesn’t really relate to the movie’s storyline at all. You’d have Batman and Robin fighting crime in Gotham City in pretty much the LEGO Star Wars fashion and in their TV glory. Yup, we Batman will be in gray and black and Robin will be wearing green toits (at least, it’s not those flesh-colored stocking and elf shoes).
I know that the controversies regarding violence and video games have been brought up on and off through the years. Most have been about the psychological effects of these games on children and teenagers in particular, especially when some school shoot-outs or other grim incidencies happen(it’s either video games and rock music, actually). But a recent event in Japan took this to a new level.
Video game arcades (All Star Park Gifu and Sega Arena Gifu) in Gifu Prefecture have been closed down by Sega Corp. when a six-year-old boy got his fingertip amputated. Apparently, the boy’s finger got caught in a chain that was attached to a Target Striker game machine. Sega Corp. has also ordered to freeze the use of other similar games machines in Hiroshima and Saitama. The gaming company has also set up a special team that would oversee the safety of its 430 video game arcades throughout the country and deal with similar cases.
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