Why Kinect Joy Ride Sucks
Posted: November 22, 2010 Filed under: video games | Tags: Kinect, Kinect Joy Ride, Microsoft, video games, Xbox Leave a comment »Gaming media touted Kinect as the “future of gaming”. Hooray! If the below video is any indicator of what is to come, games these days are so futuristic you don’t even have to play them…
Watch this guy get third place in “Kinect Joy Ride”, without moving his arms:
Maybe the same team worked on Call of Duty: Black Ops?
Again, I tip my hat at reddit 
The 'Dance Central' Work Out
Posted: June 29, 2010 Filed under: Health, Uncategorized, video games | Tags: console peasants, Dance, Dance Dance Revolution, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Kinect, master PC race, PC GAMing, Performing Arts, River dance, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Video game, Wii, Xbox 1 Comment »
GTFO DDR!!!! Image via Wikipedia
I knew about the “Portal 2″ announcement and the newest Star Wars: The Old Republic trailer before E3, so I wasn’t expecting anything to come out of the convention that would shatter my hum-drum gaming existence.
But then I saw “Dance Central“.
I think it was love at first sight.
I tried to resist. Dance Central? Please, Fruzs, have some gaming class. I can’t buy an Xbox and Kinect just for “Dance Central”. I am part of the “Glorious PC Gaming Master Race” – not some ninny scum “Dirty Console Gaming Peasant”. But then I remembered how much I love dancing. And then I noticed this game actually teaches you different dance moves – moves I’ve never attempted before.
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This isn’t DDR, where I jump around pressing buttons to the beat with my feet, and nothing happens with my upper body (DDR is no ”glorified tap dancing“). And I do like this idea of making “working out” a game. Sure, marathon running or sprinting is a great skill to have if I needed to worry about the impeding Apocalypse, but I’ll take my dancing in my home with weights over running on pavement every 6am any day.
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I never got into the Wii Fit, with its balance board, or yoga in general, because I much prefer high impact workouts, like jump roping, or dancing in my apartment with weights. Why not just play this game with some light 2 – 3 pound weights around your wrists? (psst, “gamer girls”, if you post videos of yourself playing this game with weights come November, you must link here, or I will get very mad.)
I would to take this moment to challenge you, Kristen from GameMeetsGirl, to a Dance Off.
How to talk to your video gaming significant other
Posted: June 12, 2010 Filed under: Health, video games | Tags: addicted to gaming, Call of Duty, Console Platforms, gamers, Games, hot chick destroys PS3, hot chick destroys xbox, internet addiction, lost the art of conversation, nerd rage, Norman Bates, social media, Video game, video game addiction, Video game industry, World of Warcraft, Xbox, Xbox Live 3 Comments »
I typed in "nerd rage" and this is what Zemanta found.... Image via Wikipedia
It is 2010, and techno-phobes are crying over our youth’s inability to communicate without a machine and somehow we’ve lost the subtle art of conversation. Social media is more popular than ever, and even the video game industry (from Xbox Live to Steam) has gotten into the online community-building business.
The exact percentage of the US population that plays video games is unclear, but lies between 68% (the Critical Gaming Project), and 87% males/ 80% females (2009 chart from gameindustry.com). The percentage of the population that plays video games online ( chance for addiction increases) hovers around 58% for males, and 42% for females.
According to some Australian researchers, 1 out of 10 gamers is addicted, but I have a hunch that percentage might be higher. My hunch is based off of Cracked.com’s most excellent piece “5 creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get you Addicted“. For those about to scoff at the idea of being addicted to something that “isn’t even real”, David Wong counters with:
Your brain treats items and goods in the video game world as if they are real. Because they are.
If it takes time, effort and skill to obtain an item, that item has value, whether it’s made of diamonds, binary code or beef jerky.
After all, people pay thousands of dollars for diamonds, even though diamonds do nothing but look pretty. A video game suit of armor looks pretty and protects you from video game orcs. In both cases you’re paying for an idea.
If you or your significant other is a gamer, chances are, there is some form of neglect going on in your relationship.
Before I address the right ways to go about approaching your significant other when you feel they’ve been playing video games for too long, I would first like to address the wrong ways. And while this “How-To” might seem obvious to some, it apparently isn’t when you consider the magnitude of people using the wrong methods to deal with their video gaming significant others.
THE WRONG WAY TO GET YOUR GAMER’S ATTENTION
1) Destroying your significant others gaming property, from deleting characters to destroying consoles
The internet is littered with videos of gaming equipment being destroyed by significant others. Despite many internet users proclaiming these videos as fake, the destruction of property in each video is too real (and also could be deemed illegal in some cases). There is a reason these videos are popular – these videos appeal to both the gamer who fears their significant other will do this to their machines, and to the significant other who sympathizes with the person doing the smashing.
Deleting Characters
The most recent video to make the rounds of the internet is “Girl deletes WoW Characters, Dude destroys Computer“
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Video game industry still doesn't understand women
Posted: May 29, 2010 Filed under: video games, Women | Tags: Bastila, Carth, Carth Hate, consumerism, consumerism is dead, feminism, feminism in video games, G4tv.com, Game, great recession, Kalypso Media, Knights of the Old Republic, KOTOR, Lara Croft, Nintendo DS, puzzle games, Red Dead Redemption, Sex in the City, Tomb Raider, Tropico 3, Video game, Wii, Xbox 8 Comments »
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I just read this article over on G4tv.com by Kevin Kelly titled “Sex in the City 2: Gaming with the Girls“. I think the article was aiming to be a list of games you can get your girlfriend, who is a Sex in the City fanatic (hence the title). The games listed in the article aren’t half bad, except for the “soulless” Imagine: Fashion Designer, and Kelly wrote the article in an attempt to be humorous but happened to fail miserably. I know I shouldn’t get offended at Kelly’s attempt at humor, but Kelly wrote in exactly the way the gaming industry views women, a view that is insanely offensive considering we now make up more than 40% of the gaming population.
Any female I know that happens to like Sex in the City already plays video games. What video games do they play? At least some sort of web- based puzzle game when they are at work, and another normal game on their Wii, Xbox, DS or PC. The rest of the women I know that like Sex in the City are 40 and above, and are already playing some Bejeweled-type game online, which is, surprise, also A PUZZLE GAME.
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