The Rock Band Road Crew Is Your Chance to Get Free Stuff
Harmonix has unveiled the Rock Band Road Crew, a community program which grants fans access to free stuff.
If you're 18 or older and live in the US or Canada, you can apply from now until September 13 by completing an application and submitting a video. The video has to be between one and three and a half minutes long, and include footage of you and your friends playing Rock Band (as well as including the phrase "impressive solo!" somewhere).
If you're accepted into the Road Crew, you'll have to complete challenges, ranging from posting about Rock Band on social media to playing with friends and family. Completing challenges earns you points which you can use to redeem for rewards.
New Wireless Communication Tech Harnesses the Body’s Magnetic Field
Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego demonstrated a new wireless communication proof-of-concept that effortlessly pushes magnetic signals through the human body.
The technique harnesses the body’s magnetic field to send data between wearable devices, passing freely through biological tissues. The prototype sends signals between body parts by coiling magnetic field-generating insulated copper wires around three areas of the user’s body.
According to the announcement (via Engadget), the method a more power efficient and more secure way to send information between wearable devices than Bluetooth.
Sonic the Hedgehog Joins Angry Birds Epic
Sonic the Hedgehog has come to Angry Birds Epic.
Players will be able to unlock Sonic for a limited time. Once unlocked, Sonic will be able to fight in the new Golden Pig Dungeon, and play through a selection of other new levels.
You’ll also be able to get hold of a new headgear for Chuck.
The Angry Birds joined Sonic Dash earlier in the year. This, it would seem, is Sega returning the favour.
Speaking of, we reviewed Sonic Dash back in 2013. In our review, we said “Racing through Sonic Dash’s idyllic locales can be a lot of fun,” before a realisation struck: “the game plays it too safe – there is nothing here that hasn’t been done before. This combined with its pay-to-win leaderboard environment makes Sonic Dash an unexceptional experience.”
Man O’ War: Corsair Announced
Evil Twin Artworks has teamed up with Games Workshop to develop Man O' War: Corsair, a game based on the Man O' War table top game.
It's a "sea faring open world combat-action title" set in the Warhammer world, and is scheduled for release on Steam Early Access in 2016.
The game world features a day / night cycle and changing weather, as well as over 50 ports, a variety of different customizable vessels, and the ability to trade and fight. You'll be commanding allies from different races and fighting against the likes of Orcs, Dark Elves, Skaven, Chaos, and more.
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Revisiting Microsoft’s Original Answer to Gran Turismo
Gran Turismo is near enough the greatest thing that ever happened to racing games. Let me firmly establish that right now. No-one had made a racing game quite like it before. It rocked the entire genre and its incredible girth cast a giant shadow that most other racing games in the tail-end of the original PlayStation era struggled to emerge from under. There was a long period of time where my copy of Gran Turismo was a permanent resident in my PlayStation. Its default location wasn’t in its box; it was in the console. Waiting.
I never actually played the original Forza Motorsport. At the time of its release I’d just begun working on Australia’s Official PlayStation Magazine and had been thrashing around with Gran Turismo 4 for six months. I was assured I’d dig Forza, which I suspected, but I didn’t really have room in my life for it. Besides, I already had an Xbox racing game I was addicted to: it was called V8 Supercars 2 (or TOCA Race Driver 2, as it’s more commonly known as).
Astronaut on His Way to Control an Earth-Based Robot from Space
Danish European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen is set to control an Earth-based robot from the International Space Station using a new haptic remote control.
Mogensen, commander Sergei Volkov and Aidyn Aimbetov are currently in transit to ISS after launching earlier today, September 2. Once there, Mogensen will control the arms of the Interact Centaur rover on September 7 from a 400 km orbit above Earth.
The force-feedback-based teleoperation will let Andreas feel what the robot is "feeling," allowing him to perform remote-controlled tasks in the sub-millimetre range.
Ready Player One’s Lead Actress Frontrunners
Steven Spielberg appears to be closing in on the female lead for Ready Player One as Elle Fanning (Maleficent, Super 8), Olivia Cooke (Me and Earl and the Dying, Ouija), Lola Kirke (Mistress America, Gone Girl), and two unnamed actresses are reportedly in the running for the role.
The Wrap reports Fanning, Cooke, and Kirke are testing for the role of Art3mis, Samantha Cook’s avatar in the virtual reality universe known as the Oasis. Sources say the casting process isn't far along but Spielberg hopes to find his female lead before finishing his current projects Bridge of Spies and The BFG.
Gotham: Season 2 Villains Rise in New Trailer
Gotham: Season 2 is nearly upon us and FOX has released yet another trailer and more images.
Titled Rise of the Villains, the trailer focuses on Gotham’s rogues gallery. Jerome (Cameron Monaghan), and his maniacal laugh, are prominently featured in the new trailer. The recurring Season 2 character rumored to be the Joker was also recently featured in a clip where he meets Barbara Kean (Erin Richards).
Check Out Our Huge PAX 2015 Cosplay Slideshow
PAX 2015 has come to an end, but the long weekend in Seattle was another successful celebration of gaming and geek culture. Once again, cosplayers brought their 'A'-games to PAX, and we put together a gallery of some of our favorites from PAX 2015.
All sorts of costumes were on display, drawing inspiration from MOBAs to brawlers, comics to anime. Destiny cosplayers were out in force at PAX 2015, and we collected the best we saw into a Destiny cosplay slideshow of their own.
Are you one of the cosplayers featured in our gallery? Let us know in the comments!
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