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Having just spent way too much time watching Yahtzee’s reviews, I want to point out my favorite – Heavenly Sword(s) demo

I hadn’t even heard of this game before, but Sumotori looks worth trying just based on these videos and the 96K download size. In fact, if you are still stuck on a 1200 baud modem connection and find 96K too large (psssst – this page is bigger than that), you can instead get a tiny 29K version.

Drunk cubism fighters? Sign me up.

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This is simply awesomesauce in a little controller.  While catching up on my Penny-Arcade reading for the day (and by the way, might I recommend the PennyPacker extension to you if you are a Mozilla user), I caught this video of a project to make a head-mounted device to give a user the visual sensation of a truly three-dimensional image on a monitor.

The first minute or so of the video might seem a bit boring, but it’s a setup for a really neat demonstration of the effect of real spatial movement effecting the display.  I tried snagging some images from the video to show the effect, but it’s the motion and not the image that makes the effect so cool.  In motion, parts of the image do appear to stand several feet out from the screen, and moving forward will put you behind those parts of the view so you don’t see them any more.

Technorati Tags: Penny Arcade, Head mounted display, 3D enabling technology, Wii, Nintendo, Sensor bar

Stealing this image from PZ at Pharyngula:

Something is just not right about that.

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Found this idea-theft-exposé site while reading about the recently posted Bravia ad

These commercials are made by some of the most creative advertising folks, I think.  Not as good as the bouncing-balls ad, but still really cool.

So odd, and so appealing.   Although there seems to be a bit of controversy behind this: Did Sony steal the Bravia ad idea?

Holy crap, I had no idea Bubble Bobble had so much secret power awesomeness

Man, this is hilarious.  Have you ever listened to the kook-show Coast-to-Coast AM?  Well, listen as Gordon Freeman, of the Black Mesa Research Facility, calls in and shares concerns about a mysterious person at his workplace that he and security-guard buddy Barney call the G-Man.

That’s just rich, isn’t it?

Technorati Tags: Gordon Freeman, Barney, Security, GMan, G-Man, Half-Life 2, Coast to Coast

I don’t know when this game will be available, but I want it when it comes out.

No information available yet beyond the trailer, but watch the Raptor Safari web site for updates.

Technorati Tags: Gaming, Raptor Safari, Games, Physics, Dinosaurs, Jeep based raptor hunting

Because it’s my web site and I haven’t posted much about my family lately, I think I’ll post more images of my kids. This is another shot from the zoo taken late last summer. You’ll notice that this picture suggests my kids and I went to the zoo without their mother. That’s pretty much how it happens 80+% of the time.

As you could see in the last picture, the boys used to get inside the space behind that totem pole mask in the picture. This visit, there was a new sign (in red behind the littlest one) that asks people to not climb on the totem pole. Guess we’ll not be doing more pictures of them on/in the totem pole.

I love retro games.  Here’s a site full of retro-remakes of classic (if sometimes obscure) games