Earn Points for Watching TV with Miso
With Miso, and its $1.5 million in new funding by investors including Google Ventures, you can actually earn points and badges for watching TV. What do you get for these points? Most likely: nothing.
Gamers have been dealing with this for years. We play games and try to gain “Achievement Points,” at least on Xbox, but you really get nothing from it. The points create new challenges, which make the games more fun, but you don’t actually get anything for the points.
I’ve always been waiting, and hoping, that Microsoft might let its Xbox users trade in their hard-earned… Continue reading
Nintendo 3DS is Sick (and Could Make You Sick)
3-dimensional movies and television have become interesting forms of media delivery, but what about 3D video games? At this point, they haven’t really exploded like 3D movies have, but the impending popularity is sure to come.
Video games are all about immersing yourself in a world other than the one you’re living in, taking on the part of another person. By bringing video games into three dimensions, combined with the fact that you are already controlling what happens on the screen, will bring them to another level.
Before major consoles start really pumping out 3-D based games, we will have… Continue reading
Living Your Life in 3rd Person!
Courtesy Instructables.com
Hardcore gamers have imagined this for years. I, myself, have wondered when this would be possible. Now, thanks to Instructables.com, you can finally start living your life in the 3rd person.
A lot of mainstream video games are played in 3rd person, where you can see the entire body of the character you are controlling in front of the camera. This is opposed to 1st person, in which you see through the eyes of the character.
We all live our lives in 1st person. However, if you are an avid fan of video games, you have probably wondered… Continue reading
OnLive MicroConsole to Challenge Xbox and Playstation
If you or your kids have been dying to get an Xbox 360, Playstation 3, or Nintendo Wii, but you don’t want to spend upwards of $300, you now have another option. It’s called the MicroConsole, by OnLive. With MicroConsole, you can bring OnLive to your HDTV and enjoy playing popular games with a wireless controller, just like Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. By the way, MicroConsole only costs $99.
OnLive is an online gaming service that allows users to play games online without actually downloading them or requiring a disc. Instead, the games are hosted on remote servers that… Continue reading
Tinychat: Not So Tiny Anymore
An article posted on TechCrunch today outlines the success of a fairly new video chat application on Facebook, called Tinychat.
Using Tinychat, you can easily and quickly invite any of your Facebook friends into a video chat, directly through the Facebook chat window. Even if the person you invite does not have Tinychat installed, they can still enjoy the video chat when invited.
According to TechCrunch, Tinychat is now the most widely used video chat application on Facebook. While there are other Facebook video chat applications available, such as Chatroulette and vChatter, neither has found such quick success as… Continue reading
