Video games are one of the coolest things that computer technology has brought us. It started with blocky pixels and a ton of fun, and is now larger than the movie industry. Since Ubergizmo founders Eliane and Hubert have both worked in the video games industry, we will always look at Game Tech as something special.
11/19/2010, When the Wii came out, we said that competitors would eventually catch up and build their own motion controllers. Little did we know that it would take so long, but that day has finally arrived. GameStop president Tony Bartel has described the debut of...
11/18/2010, Parrot has released a video of AR Pursuit, a game that uses the AR Drone presented at CES 2010 and released in the U.S during the summer. The game is a “search and destroy” in which each pilot has to chase the other drone and shot it down....
11/18/2010, OnLive, the company that enables cloud-based online gaming is ready to open its service to the general public. We’ve seen the demo last year during the game developers conference (GDC) in San Francisco, and the service has been in beta for a while....
11/18/2010, Owners of Nintendo Wii that are Internet-connected will soon have access to limited-time demos of select game titles through Nintendo’s WiiWare portal beginning on November 22nd. The company had removed demos in January and is re-enabling the demos...
11/18/2010, If you happen to own a SteelSeries Shift keyboard, then you would know that this is no ordinary gaming keyboard. Well, that doesn’t mean it is capable of doing everything well, covering all games with equal aplomb. With World of Warcraft: Cataclysm...
11/18/2010, Executives at Activision Publishing must clearly be laughing their way to the bank, as Call of Duty: Black Ops has gained top spot in terms of revenue earned through a worldwide five-day sales period, shattering theatrical box office, book and video game...
11/18/2010, Hmmm, first we have audio streaming before moving on to video streaming – what’s the next logical step of evolution? Why, video game streaming, of course! OnLive has brought that vision to pass with their own cloud-based rendering of video...
11/12/2010, The Xbox 360 video gaming console from Microsoft has garnered some pretty interesting results in terms of statistics according to COO of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, Dennis Durkin, who claimed that the Xbox360 is being used for...
11/12/2010, With the open source driver for the Kinect released, it didn’t take long for some Kinect hacks to surface. Now someone out there has used the open source Kinect driver to turn the device into a gesture-based multi-touch control device, allowing it...
11/11/2010, The Microsoft Surface isn’t only business-oriented, as it has recently been specially adapted by researchers from the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to have it assist kids suffering from...
11/11/2010, The stock Xbox 360 controller ain’t too shabby at all when in action, and it certainly isn’t the worst controller for a home console to date. Well, it isn’t perfect either, which means folks are waiting for an improved D-pad which...
11/11/2010, We all know that the Kinect’s Windows open source code is already available to the masses, and it didn’t take too long for someone else to hack it so that it can run on the OS X. Hacker Theo Watson is responsible for this OS X port of...
11/10/2010, Mac users should take note that Apple has released the Mac OS X 10.6.5 update, the fifth maintenance update for Snow Leopard, via Software Update. The update offers a bunch of fixes that have been implemented since the last release of Mac OS X 10.6.4...
11/10/2010, Remember the $2,000 bounty for a hacked version of an open source Kinect driver? Well, someone managed to “break” Kinect, so to speak, but did not do it out of the love of money (how noble). Hector Martin (@marcan42) of Marconsoft, on the...
