WETA, bad-ass creators of props for popular films such as Lord of Rings, District 9, Halo Live-Action Short Films recently sent a nice holiday gift to VALVe. According to the official Team Fortress blog, a level one sentry gun was delivered and placed in the VALVe lobby. The gun comes fully equipped with a motion
Andrew and I just got back home from the Video Game Awards “Red Carpet.” We are tired as fuck. This was our first red carpet event, and we learned quite a lot. We’ll be posting a video of our interviewees as well as an article about our own thoughts. But, for now, we are going
On last night’s recording of the Tripod, there was a lot of crying, especially when I mentioned Uncharted 3. Other topics we discussed on the show were a little bit of the anonymous protest (Operation PayBack) over the Wikileaks shut down, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, and some TRON: Legacy.
It didn’t take long for programmers to get from making the Kinect open sourced to creating a real life version of Minority Report. In the video below, you’ll see that another programmer from MIT has made his Kinect learn where both palms are as well as track each of his ten fingers. This is a
The new TRON: Legacy soundtrack is finally out! I listened to the whole thing on my way to work today. Some fans are already expressing how this album doesn’t sound like the Daft Punk they are used to. But, I still enjoy it. People need to realize that a movie soundtrack’s purpose is to help
Neil Patrick Harris is one extraordinary – no scratch that – legendary man. He has portrayed a boy genius doctor that may have invented the blog, helped two fellas grab a bite to eat at White Castle, and is currently sweeping women off their feet as a wildly hilarious gentleman (cough) named Barney. This is all
Today, OnLive has announced a very competitive membership plan for $9.99 a month. With the new flat rate plan, you can play any game that OnLive offers at anytime for as long as you want. “Top-tier titles are available as individual rentals and purchases, while everything else is available at a flat rate. With these
Hey everyone, we’ve got a new show! It’s called the Tripod and it features James, Andrew, and me as your hosts. In this show, we’ll be running down two or three hot topics concerning our geek culture in a video-podcast format. Each episode will be between fifteen and thirty minutes long. Just enough time to
You have to hand it to those kids over at the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT for creating some of the coolest inventions to date. On 25 November, Fluid released a new video, which can be seen past the break. In this video, the group demonstrates using a web browser with a Microsoft Kinect unit.