I bet a lot of you don't live in San Francisco with its dumb most-expensive-US-city-ness and often tiny housing situations. Maybe you have the recommended six to eight foot cavern to fill between you and the original Kinect. For those of us with smaller, more concentrated voids of emptiness, the Xbox One Kinect promised to be better. Promised us we would not have to move couches or take sledgehammers to our living room walls.
Neogaf user kazebyaka stumbled on an Xbox One installation manual that suggests a recommended minimum distance of 4.5 feet between the One's camera and flailing individuals playing Dance Central (and other games, maybe).
Xbox One Kinect shrinks minimum distance requirement to 4.6 feet [Engadget]
Deception IV is coming in early 2014, but we've yet to see anything substantial in terms of gameplay -- until this brand new trailer, that is. After taking a short trip through the first few games, the video gets right into the action, showing off a hefty amount of gameplay and the available traps, which range from hammers, to bear traps, to good old fashioned spikes.
As you might be able to tell from the giant pumpkin that falls on a few of the foe's heads to obscure their vision, some of the series' trademark dark humor is back. We'll be able to try out Deception IV for ourselves in 2014.
Capcom's beloved Yoshinori Ono sent out a Twitter call for talent late last night, tweeting, "I want.... no, Capcom wants Game Designer and programer for New Fighting Game. Its location at Tokyo or Osaka Studio."
Ono fielded a few questions following the tweet, noting "we're making preparation for development in just now" and "I don't know that our target platform. ;P." Not much to go on, but I appreciate the smiley face.
What would you like this new fighter to be? A revitalized classic? A new IP? More Street Fighter? I hope it stars Josh Brolin from The Goonies, a bunch of Wiccans, boxer ghosts, Cloud Strife, and Samuel Gompers. .
CES isn't until after Christmas. January, in fact. But we seem to be in the habit of preparing for holidays months in advance, so put away your Christmas lights and pull out your CES 4k LEDs because it's late October and Christmas is practically almost over. I know CES counts as a working holiday for Dale, who loves all that crazy tech.
Anyway, Sony CEO Kaz Hirai, whom I once passed on an elevator, is kicking off CES 2014 with its opening keynote. Last year was Panasonic's Kazuhiro Tsuga. You probably shouldn't expect any PlayStation news until Sony's actual press conference, but it could be neat to watch. It's also an interesting selection. Console war over, right?
As much as I'm down with the PlayStation brand, Sony isn't quite the innovator in the rest of the tech field is used to be. I'm typing on a Vaio laptop. Their products are perfectly good. We are clearly a ways away from the Walkman days, however.
Let's brainstorm here. What could put Sony right back on the bleeding edge? A smartphone you can implant under your forearm? Shoes with wheels in the heel? A robot that loves? Minority Report-style projection laptops? TVs that black out commercials? Programmable fridge magnets?
This morning, I woke up to a rather nice email from Amazon, noting that Bandai's badass Mega Man X Sigma figure was shipping out. It came as a bit of a surprise, especially considering that the toy in question had a "TBA" date for months, but alas, it's out now should you want to pick it up.
Confusingly enough the page is still asking for pre-orders, but just know that if you're willing to plunk down the $56 for the non-poseable statue, it has the distinct possibility of shipping any day now. As soon as I get him, I'm definitely putting him next to my Ultimate Armor X figure.
The Xbox had a ToeJam and Earl III. Apparently, the Dreamcast did, too. We just never saw it. Someone found it, though, and put some beta gameplay online. They're also planning a fundraising campaign to publicly release the game, which allegedly plays smoothly through the first ten or so levels before its incompletion becomes more evident. Bugs, that is.
Aside from the novelty of unreleased software, the footage is worth crawling through for those funky beats alone.
