Daily Archives: August 26, 2010

Other Voices come to Xbox Live

  By Will | August 26, 2010 - 5:21 pm | Games, Gigs, Music, Performance Art, Random Whimsy, The Internet, TV
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If you’re connected to XBox live, you might have spotted a familiar face hidden in the extensive GamesCon footage; that of Duke Special. XBox live are showing a series of the intimate “Other Voices” gigs filmed in Dingle’s St James Church. Yes, this is a shortened version of the gigs shown on RTÉ over the years, but this is something of a test. In November Microsoft XBox team expect to see a change in the types of people sitting down in from of their XBox once the Kinect arrives. Namely that of casual gamers. Namely that of people who like music. Namely that of people who would rather dance then first person shoot.

Kinect will win the console war

  By JustGeorge | August 26, 2010 - 10:30 am | Games, The Culch
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I watched this video recently and it reminded me of why I thought Kinect, Natal as it was when I saw the original demo, is going to wipe the floor with both the Wii and Playstation Move. It’s largely down to an 11 year old boy named Milo, watch the video and you’ll see what I mean. I’m not for a minute suggesting that this game will be the greatest game of all time, but more the technology behind it, will be pulled apart and used in other games to create NPC’s that are far more realistic and engaging than even the most advanced out there today. Well, either that or Milo’s “cloud brain” will reach sentience and takeover the interwebs before manifesting himself into the real world ala “Automan” and making us all his eternal stone skipping, room cleaning slaves. Roll on 10 November the Kinect launch date

Whoopi Goldberg: Back in the Habit yet again!

  By Colm | August 26, 2010 - 9:14 am | Featured Post, Music, The Arts, The Culch, Theatre
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On Tuesday 10th August, I was privileged enough to see Whoopi Goldberg in her opening night as Mother Superior in Sister Act at the London Palladium. I had been thinking about a London theatre trip for a while (I try to do one once a year) but hearing the news that Whoopi would be doing a limited run in this wonderful production was all the motivation I needed to book tickets right then and there. My second time seeing the show, it was just as much fun as I remembered, and I left the theatre with feeling of joyous exuberance not matched since I last saw the show and a renewed sense of despair over the fact that I have no musical talent to speak of (I want to be a singing nun dammit!!).