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Guitar Hero hack - a sequencer is born
Here's a class project that you probably wish you'd managed to get credit for. By interfacing the Guitar Hero peripheral with a sequencing program, these students at the University of California have managed to turn the five-button guitar into something approaching a real musical instrument. From...
Virtual prostitutes make real cash
Sex sells in Second Life, as it does in real life, and this article by Computer Gaming World delves into the story of prostitution within Linden Labs' virtual world. While Second Life prides itself on being driven by user-created content, including user-driven entertainments at nightclubs and gamin...
Inside the game: La Fuga
"I just fought my way up a wind tunnel, scrambled through a ventilation duct, clambered across 40 yards of rope netting, rolled under a fence, and burrowed through a mass of grapefruit-sized plastic spheres. Now I'm facing two doors. One leads to freedom. The other to a room with something nast...
Single player games get competitive again
Many gamers' favourite moments include racking up high scores at the local arcade and boasting about them to friends--that's about as competitive as single-player games could get. Multiplayer games, with their inherent replayability, are dominating the sales charts; has the humble high score died a ...
Student project yields some fun games
Getting into game development as a student, for a class project or private competition, seems an increasingly common hobby. Not only do you get course credit for writing a game, but you have an instant start to your portfolio when applying for game development jobs on graduation. What could be bett...
The guide to snagging major schwag
Ever wonder how you could score a free PSP at these tech conventions without having to deal with the sticky mess of petty larceny? The guys at The TechZone had a chance to test out their smiling faces and thick skins at the recently-concluded Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and walked away w...
