Game engine utilizing a pseudo-holographic effect by enabling Kinect to “see” the position of the viewer so a 3D engine can adjust an image to give the illusion of a real 3D object. A simple WP7 app controls the application and the helicopter using the accelerometer.

Interesting.

Kijjaa is a 3D web-based flash game controlled by your iPhone.

Here.

Very interesting use of the tech for entertainment.

ViaCS.

Very useful resource.

Here.

ViaWill.

Turn your iPhone into a game controller for your Mac.

Here.

ViaTBS.

For a minute I thought this was good, then there was a crappy end line and it went back to being just an ad again and I was disappointed.

Why does it need that rubbish end line?

XBOX. Long Live Play.
Wii. Long Live Play.
Etc…

Chris joins Stephen Curran, the British video game journalist and Pat Kane, the author of the best selling book, the Play Ethic. Curran is a presenter, author, and game designer. He was an editor at Edge magazine, also writing under the name RedEye. The RedEye articles have been cited as one of “Ten unmissable examples of New Games Journalism” by Guardian Unlimited.

Pat Kane’s Play Ethic is a manifesto for a different way of living and seeks to change the way you look at your daily life, how you interact with others, how you view the world. It is a guidebook to new, exciting – and unsettling – times. But even more than this it is a survival guide for those seeking to break the shackles of work dominated society.

A huge thank you to Budweiser who will be supplying lovely beer, Sony who will be providing the 3D gaming and Contagious Magazine for their support.

It’s gonna be fun.

There are a few tickets left – go here.

Zombies, Run! is a running game for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android which involves rebuilding a civilisation after a zombie apocalypse. By going out and running in the real world, players can collect medicine, ammo, batteries, and spare parts that you can use to build up and expand your base – all while getting orders, clues, and story through their headphones.

Smashing.

Created by Six to Start and Naomi Alderman.

Kickstart it here.

ViaAdrian.

adidas + Flick Kick (Pik Pok) partnership that basically puts you in the position of a midfielder passing the ball to your team mates a few times before creating the final pass for the goal (with your finger obviously).

web + app.

Very nice.

Play here.

App here.

ViaWeizy.

Following the success of CS Presents, Creative Social are launching a Fanboy series – a series of evenings where the Socials who fanatically collect culture for themselves will share what makes them passionate. Albeit art, gaming, music, squids, Ping Pong or vinyl toys, Socials will curate an evening of great speakers to deliver an inspirational and fun evening.

I’m very happy to announce that the first evening of Inspiration in London, will be curated by rubbishcorp® on Wednesday 5th October at Mother London.

Mainstream media still largely depicts video games as made by Satan for gun toting juveniles learning to kill from the comfort of their Lazyboy.

Yet recent figures clearly demonstrate that more money is now being spent on video games than on films (both cinema and disc), despite British cinema enjoying its best period in decades.

This is the clearest evidence yet that the games industry has come of age and has transformed itself from niche entertainment for teenage boys into mainstream entertainment for millions of British families.

Mania of the Geek sets out to explore the impact of this relatively over-night phenomenon on our culture and everyday lives.

Confirmed Speakers:

Stephen Curran is a British video game journalist, presenter, author, and game designer. He was an editor at Edge magazine, also writing under the name RedEye. The RedEye articles have been cited as one of “Ten unmissable examples of New Games Journalism” by Guardian Unlimited.

Curran’s published books include Game Plan: Great Designs That Changed the Face of Computer Gaming (2004), The Art of Producing Games (2005), The Complete Guide to Game Development, Art & Design (2005) and Game On: The 50 Greatest Video Games of All Time (2006); the latter three were written with David McCarthy and Simon Byron He currently presents the Resonance FM gaming radio show, One Life Left, and works as Creative Director at games studio Zoë Mode.

Pat Kane is the author of the best selling book, the Play Ethic. The Play Ethic is a manifesto for a different way of living and seeks to change the way you look at your daily life, how you interact with others, how you view the world. It is a guidebook to new, exciting – and unsettling – times. But even more than this it is a survival guide for those seeking to break the shackles of work dominated society.

He also happens to be one half of the band Hue & Cry.

I’m gonna run on a bit as is one other person, they are yet to confirm.

Tickets here.

Massive thank you to Budweiser who will be providing us with some lovely cold beer.

Bit long and the voice is annoying but the tech is pretty impressive.

Facebook here.

“World of Fourcraft” uses Foursquare and Google Maps APIs to turn New York City into a giant game of Risk. Users decide which team they are on by swearing allegiance to one of New York City’s five boroughs. Checking into a neighborhood on Foursquare is the online game’s equivalent to placing plastic man on a country in the board game. An algorithm decides who owns each neighborhood using the number of people who have checked into it on each team. There are currently about 100 players.

Here.

OffaAdverblog.

Link’s Awakening in you browser.

Here.

I’ve no idea what’s going on, but this site is incredibly well executed.

Here.

ViaAdverblog.

The subscription fee is also planned to enable subscribers access to free map packs. Activision ave stated that the MW3 base game will ship with regular multiplayer functionality that will not cost a monthly fee. The network will launch its beta this summer, first being implemented with last November’s Call of Duty: Black Ops, and the full service will be integrated with Call of Duty’s next installment, Modern Warfare 3. Activision hasn’t yet announced the pricing, but mentioned they are projecting it will be less than “fees for comparable online-entertainment services.”

Be really interesting to see how many people subscribe to this, creating networks around passions and then charging for them makes a lot of sense on paper.

ViaJoyStiq.

GTA4.net have created custom views of Liberty City and added them to a Google Map enabling the exploration of the entire map of Grand Theft Auto IV, in Street View. The map shows all the important locations in the game, such as health & weapon pick-up points and all the important mission starting points and is, like, totally sick.

Nicely.

Here.

Site.

As featured previously, this is the fouth year in a row the My Famicase Exhibition will be held by the retailer METEOR in Kichijoji Tokyo. Basically designers (and the like) are invited to create/design their own made up NES/Famicom game/cartridge.

Lovely.

Here.

Viaiaskedforacarigotacomputer

Nice HTML5 action.

Here.

Namco Bandai and Microsoft unveiled the world’s biggest Pacman game. Developed by Australian company Soap Creative, the HTML5 version of the game enables users to create their own maps, with exits connecting the different maps into a huge mega-map. 

The game starts as a standard Pac-Man board, but if you go into the tunnels on the sides of the maze, rather than emerging from the other side, you emerge in a new Pac-Man maze.

And there are a lot of them. Hence the name.

Sa. Weeeeee. Ta.

Here.

Old skool.

Here.

Play here.

ViaHurtyBrain.

Wow.

UPDATE: Forwards re-cut.

Not quite as good.

Apparently the Madden engine predicted 8 of the last 9 Superbowls.

Smashing interactive Google Maps based visualisation of LittleBigPlanet activity. Over 9.8 million pieces of user-generated content are live on the site, including Tweets, photos, videos and custom levels created in-game. The LittleBigMap updates in real-time as new stuff is added and users are also kept up to speed with the latest official news, updates and downloadable content.

Sweet.

Here.

From TH_NK.

PS. LBP2 is a fantastic game.

From Freddie Wong who also did this.

@rubbishcorp Hey, did you check this red light troubleshooter for your Xbox? http://xbx.lv/9k2t5s Let us know if it helps! ^LB

Nice, so today I clicked the link and followed the simple process:

A)

B)

#FAIL

But kinda funny…

Here.

Autolog is the social engine at the center of the latest installment of Need for Speed. The Autolog system basically records your exploits and lets your friends know what you are up to. It also enables players to track career and game stats, check out their captured photos, brag about latest accomplishments and throw down challenges recommended by Autolog’s comparison engine – all based on friends’ stats. The whole thing lives both in-game and at this website, which also enables side-by-side stats comparison, text-chat with friends (in-game) as well as the ability save Autolog Recommendations for the next time you’ve got a controller in your hand.

The growing influence of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and mobile gaming experiences are very clear to see here (right down to the Autolog wall). Increasingly console games will move beyond just a solid single-player experience and into more social, sharing and multiplayer experiences – a factor that’s becoming increasingly important in every market. Extending a games life beyond time spent in front of a console furthers it’s reach, cultural relevance and lifespan – especially if you involve friends.

While EA aren’t the first to blur this line – Autolog is the a very good example of how it’s done.

Here.

NFS HP Review to follow.

Glitch is a web-based massively-mutliplayer game that ‘takes place inside the minds of eleven peculiarly imaginative Giants.’ You choose how to grow and shape the world: building and developing, learning new skills, collaborating or competing with everyone else in one enormous, ever-changing, persistent world.

At work.

Here.

BOOM!

Site.