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Anti-Gaming Advert Stirs Up Controversy
March 10, 2009
I think that it’s fair to say that adverts are getting, at least, more diverse. Not only do people now advertise their religion, there are also sickening anti-smoking adverts, disturbing keep-to-the-speed-limit ones and, in more extreme cases, telling your husband that you want a divorce. But as of yet there hasn’t been much controversy with the gaming world.
But the Change4Life active lifestyle campaign, in their infinite wisdom, decided to put out an advert implying that gaming led to an early death: shown by a young child on a sofa with a mindless expression and a console game controller in his hand. As good as their aims may have been the campaign has angered two fairly important groups of people.
Continue reading »New Wii Classic Pro Controller
March 6, 2009
Nintendo have announced an upgrade to the Wii Classic Controller. As you can see from the picture above, it looks like Nintendo have made this similar to Sony’s DualShock controllers, with the shoulder button’s have been placed in the same way. The pad should plug straight into the Wii Remote as the current one does.
The rest of the pad seems to be unchanged, but what is the reason behind the updated Classic Controller? Are Nintendo setting us up for a more traditionally played games that require the pad, or the virtual console is about to receive a massive injection of N64 games. Who knows?
Continue reading »PC Wii Remote – Asus Eee Stick Announced
August 27, 2008
Asus have come up with the Eee Stick which is essentially a PC Wii remote. The PC’s answer to Nintendo’s impressive Wii Remote?
Asus will be selling the Eee Stick with certain models of their Eee Pc and Eee box, as well as some of the games that have been made for use with the Eee Stick.
There’s no news yet as to whether or not the Eee stick will be sold separately to be used with other PC’s.
Continue reading »Cheap Wireless Xbox 360 Controller
March 14, 2007
After getting a cheap Xbox 360, I then looked around for a good deal on another wireless controller because they are rather good and that meant that we could then play 2 player games such as Lego Indiana Jones and Sega Rally!
