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Become a 100m World Records Holder this weekend

  By Will | April 22, 2011 - 8:27 pm | Games, The Internet
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Microsoft and Rare want you to become a World Record holder at 6pm Saturday 23 April, all you have to do is run 100 meters. Actually its a little bit more than that, but not much more. Xbox Nations lets you try Xbox LIVE Gold for free, as well as inviting you to take part in the world’s biggest ever virtual sprint. The record we’re going for is the most people running a virtual 100m dash at one time. You need to have (or have access to) play Kinect Sports and complete a sprint mini-game while connected to Xbox LIVE at 6pm on Saturday. You must choose sprint from the mini-game menu – not the entire track and field event for your race to count. You also have to download a gamerpic, which registers you as eligible for the attempt. There is a different pic for each country, so register … There’s more →

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

Competition Closed: Crackdown 2

  By Anto | July 9, 2010 - 4:38 pm | Games
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*** Competition Closed *** *** Congratulations to Andy Gaffney, Hugh Curran and Annemarie McDonagh *** *** Thank you to all those who commented *** The sleeper hit of 2007, Crackdown, has it’s sequel launch today across Europe. Crackdown 2 (exclusive to Xbox 360) builds exponentially upon the gameplay of its predecessor, including an all-new 4-player co-op and 16-player multiplayer modes. With new enemies called the Cell and the Freaks standing in the way of the Agency’s goal to restore order, players return as genetically enhanced Agents to once again bring peace to Pacific City – by any means necessary. We’ll have a review up early next week but the nice folks at Microsoft have given us 3 copies to give away. All you have to do is answer the following question in a comment below: Where is the game-play of Crackdown 2 set? (a) Atlantic City (b) Pacific City (c) … There’s more →

EA Showcase 2010 - Part 2

  By Anto | June 14, 2010 - 8:28 pm | Featured Post, Games, The Culch
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Part 1 of this post gave you the lowdown on Battlefield Bad Company 2: Onslaught, Need for Speed World, Crysis 2 and Bulletstorm. Right, so lets crack on and examine the rest of EA’s big releases for 2010 and beyond: Dead Space 2: The original Dead Space, released in 2008, was a survival horror third-person shooter title which sold shed-loads. Dead Space 2 takes place on a densely populated space station, dubbed the “Sprawl”. We got to see a live demo where the protagonist, Isaac Clarke, is making his way through a level and encountering different types of Necromorphs (former humans turned by a virus like infection into grosteque monsters). The character model is excellent as you can rip limbs off enemies (“strategic dismemberment”) and use them to fight off others. Another sequence we were shown involved blowing out a window and having enemies sucked out into space before you … There’s more →

Game Review: Alan Wake

  By Anto | May 14, 2010 - 10:20 pm | Featured Post, Games, The Culch
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Alan Wake has been coming a long time. First announced five years ago, I thought it had fallen into oblivion but got word last month that it was imminent on Xbox 360. So has it been worth the wait? By and large, yes. Alan Wake is the titular character, a writer getting away to the Pacific north-west of the US with his wife. He’s been suffering writer’s block and believes the break will do them well. Bright Falls is the destination, a sleepy town set amongst the mountains and inhabited by folks who generally haven’t left the place. After picking up the keys to their cabin, things take a turn for the worse when Alan’s wife, Alice, goes missing in the dark. Darkness is everywhere in this game as Alan struggles to figure out what’s going on, all the while being attacked by zombie-esque dark infested residents (the Taken). Alan … There’s more →

Cool but Ultimately Pointless - Social Media comes home

  By Niall | November 18, 2009 - 8:56 am | Games, The Culch, The Internet, TV
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After all the hype in the last few weeks about Facebook and Twitter integration coming to Xbox 360 it finally happened yesterday. Today Sony has launched a firmware upgrade to 3.10, which will allow Facebook trophy and game sync support. So Microsoft’s great coup lasted all of one day? Nice.

Two Weeks Later, Living with 7

  By Niall | November 5, 2009 - 8:35 pm | Gadgets, The Culch, The Internet
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Microsoft is PC operating software king. Windows is the most dominant platform on PCs today, holding just over 96% of the market. So when the company brings out a new OS it’s time to sit up and listen. Their latest, Windows 7, launched with much fanfare two weeks ago today, on October 22nd, 2009. I promptly installed it on my desktop and on my laptop, replacing previous incarnations of Windows. So 14 days in what’s the new system like to use?

Are you Ireland’s biggest inner geek? Celebrate Geek and win!

  By darraghdoyle | September 30, 2009 - 12:16 pm | Events, The Culch, The Internet
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I feel somewhat conflicted in posting this, considering I really believe I could have won it if I hadn’t been asked to be a judge. A new competition has been announced today to search for Ireland’s “biggest inner geek”. NERDS √16 EVER! If you got that, you could be just the person Microsoft is looking for. To celebrate the launch of Windows 7 on October 22, the computer giant has begun a nationwide search for Ireland’s biggest inner geek The press release points to nominations for people who for example Know more people online than in the real world; Get their kids out of bed at an unearthly hour on Christmas morning just so they can play with their kids’ new gadgets; Prefer to instant message someone even though they are in the same room; Always have to have the latest and greatest MP3 player, mobile phone or computer game; … There’s more →