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Admit it: You think driving a race car is easy. With closed tracks and all that horsepower, who needs talent ? let alone athletic prowess? But unless you’ve trained your heart like a distance runner, built your muscles like a football player, and conditioned your body to withstand 150-degree heat, you’d probably kill yourself and several bystanders by the third turn. (fonte Wired)

Vale anche per Mario Kart questo discorso? Ecco le sollecitazioni dovute alla guida nel dettaglio.

“Ricky Gervais – of The Office fame in the UK - is in GTA IV, as part of Liberty City’s stand-up comedy club, and somewhere else he’s not saying…

Speaking to free magazine Shortlist, Gervais revealed that he performs three minute skits of never-before-heard material in Liberty City’s comedy club, as well as gags from his recent Fame tour”

Notizia del giorno! Qui

Spiegato da un brillante post su uno dei blog di Wired il segreto del successo della Nintendo Wii: ti fa sentire stupido…

“The secret to the Wii’s seductive powers over someone like my mother is that despite being a nifty piece of technology it never, ever makes you feel stupid. Within seconds, she not only understood the bowling controls, but had mastered them to the point that she could succeed at the game. It’s something that we, as regular gamers, take for granted, but which is particularly exhilarating for anyone who views the complex controller of the PS3 or the 360 as mountain too treacherous and difficult to ever climb” (fonte qui)

La Sony vuole sapere perché si cerca di crakkare la PSP…

“Sony reps call the survey a part of “ongoing PSP consumer research”, attempting to learn more about the size of the PSP hacking population and the mentality behind the behavior. Questions like “Do you know of anyone who has “hacked,” or modified, transferred and customized their PSP firmware and software?” were included elsewhere in the poll”. (da Kotaku)

 

Non che io sia preoccupato però…

“The End of an Era: This morning the 1UP Network, in conjunction with Microsoft, announced that Games for Windows: The Official Magazine will be transitioning from a print publication to an online-exclusive destination here on 1UP.com. GFW was the longest running PC games magazine in the industry, beginning its life as CGW in 1981″ (da Digg)

“Research presented at the British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference this week suggests that people who show signs of being addicted to videogames exhibit many of the same symptoms as those with Asperger’s syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism” (Fonte Wired)

Ora è ufficiale la dipendenza da videogiochi e l’autismo sono simili. More info qui.

“‘Curava’ la depressione sparando da diverse notti colpi di fucile contro locali pubblici e attivita’ commerciali. E’ finito in carcere un autotrasportatore di 43 anni residente a Reggio Emilia, incensurato. E’ stato arrestato la scorsa notte da un equipaggio dei carabinieri dopo l’ultimo raid” (fonte Yahoo)

Una roba tipo GTA insomma.

“All in all, I’m quite impressed with Nintendo’s exercise software, especially the Balance Board. Wii Fit is certainly not the first example, even in recent times, of a product that attempts to turn exercise into a videogame. But it’s probably the most successful one, and a lot of that is thanks to the controller. Since the board can determine quite accurately how well you are performing a set of standard exercises, the feedback that you get from the game is meaningful” (da qui)

Sarà ma io continuo ad andare in palestra. Poi al limite mi metto sulla cyclette a giocare con la PSP con il DS, ma almeno vinco la fatica di non rimanere sul divano…