Kinect claims its first victim… a television
‘A public service announcement: Do not under any circumstances play Kinect Sports Volleyball at 1:30 a.m. while standing under a ceiling fan with a dangling chain for a light switch. You could conceivably spike it into your year-old amazing TV, causing it to die with a rainbow LCD teardrop dripping down from the impact wound.
Plus you’ll lose the match by forfeit.’
The reports we’ve all been expecting since the Kinect was first announced have begun! While still days away from its European release, the Kinect has claimed its first victim television in the US. Phil Villarreal, a writer living in Tucson, Arizona had the misfortune of being able to claim: ‘Yes, I am the first moron to break his TV with Kinect’ after not even having the device for much more than a day. Unlike the Wii you don’t need a controller to break your television through gaming with Kinect!
At least we European gamers can rest assured that if we break our televisions through a Kinect device, we won’t be the first!
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Mario’s Super Sweet 25th
In celebration of Super Mario’s 25th Anniversary Nintendo are releasing the Super Mario Collection on the Wii. Originally thought to be a Japanese exclusive release, the collection is set to be hitting shelves across the rest of the world just in time for Christmas!
Set to be released on the 3rd of December, the collection will come in a Super Mario All-Stars disc case, with Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3, presented with 16-bit Super Nintendo era graphics, updated for the Wii all on one disc. The collection will feature extra collectable content, such a soundtrack CD, with selected music from titles ranging from Super Mario Bros. to Super Mario Galaxy, and an illustrated 32-page commemorative booklet highlighting the history of the series.
If you missed out on the classic Super Mario Bros. games the first time around you’ll soon be able to pick up the collection and discover why Super Mario has become one of the most loved gaming series of all time.
Book Worm meets Game Worm
The British Library boasts one of the most complete archives in the world, largely helped by a law passed in 1662 that made it compulsory for a copy of every printed publication be sent to the library upon release. Now the Library is looking to add video-games to their vast collections.
“The games publishing industry recognizes the value in preserving their computer games and many in the industry that I’ve talked to could relay horror stories about old material disappearing or being left to gradually decay in a box under someones desk”, the British Library’s digital preservation specialist Paul Wheatley told Gamasutra.
The British Library’s digital preservation expert Paul Wheatley is currently working alongside the National Videogame Archive , but fears have been rising that much digital content from the 1970’s to the 1990’s may already be forever lost. Many believe that the government should include video games into the law that has created the extensive archive, making it compulsory for games publishers to hand over a copy of each game they release to the archives.
And now our human interest piece…
Gotta Copyright them all…
On 1st of September, 27-year-old Makoto Sekiguchi from Yokohama uploaded six images of three previously unrevealed characters, such as Chaoboo, from the new Pokémon: Black & White games via his mobile phone, which he had obtained from an issue CoroCoro Comic that had been leaked before its September 15th release date. With the Pokémon games being as popular as they are the images didn’t go unnoticed for long, only unfortunately for Sekiguchi they were noticed by the Chikusei City police. He is now in police custody on the charge of violating copyright infringement for posting the images on the internet before the official release date.
“(I) thought I would show everyone the characters that haven’t been made public yet,” Sekiguchi is quoted as saying. We can only assume next time he won’t be so generous.
