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British Photographer Uses RED Camera to Capture Kids Playing Video Games

Nerd Grind — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:56:16 +0000

British Photographer Robbie Cooper used his RED camera to illustrate that look of total concentration kids tend to get when they are playing an engrossing video game. Adults make faces too, but kids are more photogenic.

Robbie photographed the kids as they played games such as Grand Theft Auto IV and Call of Duty 4. He placed his camera behind a pane of glass so the kids wouldn’t be self-conscious about the giant hunk of RED goodness pointed right at them.

Below are more photos from Cooper’s set. No word on if he plans to do a "People staring into their laptops" collection:

Sony Announces $499 160 GB Playstation 3 Bundle for Holidays – Includes Drakes Fortune Game

Nerd Grind — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:00:02 +0000

Sony has announced a PS3 bundle for the holidays. It includes the newly minted 160GB Playstation 3. It also includes a copy of the hit game "Drake’s Fortune." The bundles will start going on sale next week and will retail for approximately $499.

Nintendo Releases Wii Speak Microphone Peripheral Tuesday – Impossible to Resell

Nerd Grind — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:32:30 +0000

The Nintendo Wii Speak peripheral releases Tuesday and it’s already causing controversy. The unit allows you to communicate to other Wii users online via a built-in microphone. The unit seems like a good fit for the video game console, however there is a problem. The peripheral demands you input a 16 character code the first time you use it. This is a one time use code, which cannot be replaced if lost. This means the unit can never be sold, never be given away and never be used on another Wii console other than than the one it was purchased on. Nintendo has long maintained animosity towards the used gaming market but some feel this is going too far.

Legacy Entertainment Releases USB-enabled Joystick that Looks like Atari Controller

Nerd Grind — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:12:33 +0000

Legacy Entertainment has released a joystick that doubles as an homage to the legendary Atari 2600 controller. The joystick just looks like an Atari controller, however. It’s fully Windows, OS X and Linux compatible and connects via USB. The company claims it will work flawlessly with "nearly any emulator" so you can seek out the original games that the joystick helped make so much fun. It costs just $14.99 and it’s currently available.

XS Games releases “Popstar” for Wii

Nerd Grind — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:14:50 +0000

XS Games has just released a Wii game called "Popstar." It’s sort of like "Guitar Hero" but instead of a guitar with four colored buttons on it you get a Wiimote condom with four colored buttons on it. The game has you performing various pop songs by pushing the buttons in tandem with nunchuck attachment. Before you open your window and scream "We’ve seen this before fifty thousand times", word on the street is that it’s actually fun.

MTV’s Patrick Klepek went hands on with the device and did say the functionality was a bit uncomfortable though. Still, the game has an estimated retail price of $59.99. That’s a heck of a lot less than the $200 you’ll be forking down for "Guitar Hero: World Tour."

Totally Classic Rock

Nerd Grind — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:24:12 +0000

I went to Best Buy the other day, to get some sweet speakers for my computer at work, and as i was paroozing down the aisle i came across a demo video game called Guitar Hero. Cautiously i picked up the control (which was a guitar) and started my classic rock journey.

4 hours later, I bought some black spandex, a headband, got some tattoos and i was a rockstar – for real this time. I cannot express how cool this game is, by the end of it you’ll have groupies of your own, i promise. Go get it today.

Rescue the Nuke Scientist

Nerd Grind — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:02:10 +0000

An Iranian hard-line student group unleashed a new video game Monday that simulates an attempt to rescue two Iranian nuclear experts kidnapped by the US military and held in Iraq and Israel. The point of the game is to kill as many US soldiers as possible. This is the same student group that was behind the infamous "World Without Zionism" conference in 2005 where President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."

"This is our defense against the enemy’s cultural onslaught," Mohammad Taqi Fakhrian, a leader of the student group, told reporters Monday.

In "Rescue the Nuke Scientist," U.S. troops capture a husband-and-wife team of nuclear engineers during a pilgrimage to the holy city of Karbala.

"We tried to promote the idea of defense, sacrifice and martyrdom in this game," Fakhrian said.

Fakhrian said his group was trying to market the video game first in Iran and other Muslim countries. But the group also has plans to bring the game, which comes on a CD for computers, to Western countries, he said.

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