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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Global 2012: 8 cool things you can do with your game console

The Xbox 360 Arcade with wireless controller. This is a Jasper chipset, with onboard memory. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
You obviously bought your game console to play games, but these days, you can do more with an Xbox 360 or PS3 than rampage through Modern Warfare 3 maps. A lot more.

Thanks to a number of awesome updates, both the 360 and PS3 are now viable all-in-one entertainment hubs, offering a wealth of features and services that make conventional cable boxes and media players seem ridiculously one-dimensional. Here are a handful of non-gaming uses for your game console:

Watch TV shows and films
Be a sports nut
Run your home's media
Auto-blog
Network socially
Fight disease
Use it as a stereo
Video chat

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/8-cool-things-game-console-232954117.html

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Global 2012: Fifth Ave. Frogger takes the arcade game to the streets

Frogger Beyond (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Who can forget the awesome Seinfeld episode where George Costanza attempts to navigate a Frogger machine across a busy Manhattan street?

Now, an enterprising gamer has brought that episode to life in a much, much safer way.

Frogger fan Tyler DeAngelo grew tired of the familiar traffic patterns of the game's vehicles, so decided to up the challenge by replacing those cars with a real-time replica of traffic on one of New York City's busiest streets. The result was Fifth Avenue Frogger.

DeAngelo rigged a webcam on a nearby high-rise and pointed it at the street, then wrote a program to translate the positional data of the cars into the game. That makes for a challenge that is not only safer than George's venture across the streets, but one that's less likely to have the same ending.

Unfortunately, if you want to play the game, you'll have to be in Manhattan. The data is transmitted to a hacked, standalone Frogger machine standing on the the side of the street. Oh, but those lucky few who did get to try the game got to experience what seems to be an amazing new take on a classic game.

It has, after all, been 31 years since Frogger first hit pizza parlors and arcades. While Konami has attempted to update it several times, the original coin-op game has always been the version people remember and prefer.

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/fifth-ave-frogger-takes-arcade-game-streets-182049428.html

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Global 2011: 7 dates that’ll create instant chemistry

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You’ve had a pleasant date or two, but you “just aren’t feeling it…” yet. Rest assured, attraction isn’t always instant: Research shows that it typically takes a guy three meetings to fall for a woman — and as many as 20 dates for her to feel the same. Plus, there are things you can do during these early outings that’ll help get some chemistry percolating and jump-start your budding relationship. So, consider skipping your typical dinner date and trying one of these options to get a buzz going between you.

Date idea #1: Go hunting
Date idea #2: Get dizzy
Date idea #3: Attend a group dining experience
Date idea #4: Get in touch with your artistic sides
Date idea #5: Get nosy
Date idea #6: Dance, dance, dance
Date idea #7: Play a game together

http://yahoo.match.com/y/article.aspx?articleid=10214&TrackingID=526103&BannerID=737598