I am impressed with the technology so far. It knows who you are, so if someone else walks into the cameras view it will ignore them totally. Plus it recognizes me now through facial recognition and signs me in automatically.

I will keep trying this thing out and get a few more games before I give my full review, but so far this thing looks like it is going to be great fun, especially if you have kids. No Wiimotes to go flying and my 50″ Plasma!

I know I have writen about my disappointment in the Wii before, but I also wanted to give it a fair chance before putting it up on ebay. I have rented and purchased many games from the first ones like red steel (horrible) up to Mario Kart Wii (great).

I have to say that my opinion of the Wii has not really changed. Of all the games that I have tried, the only good ones are the ‘party’ games. But I think that has more to do with the atmosphere of having a bunch of friends over. I don’t really see anyone playing Mario Party 8 by themselves.

I do not really want to group the Wii in with the other game consoles. It really is more of a toy than a game console. But I don’t see myself truly gaming on it, nor will I be buying any games for it except the party games.

I think Nintendo did exactly what it needed to do in order to make a ton of money and to try and bring back the glory days. But I do not think it will last. Non gamers that bought it will have no reason to buy the next version of the Wii, and real gamers will tire of it quickly and will also not upgrade to the next version. This is a toy, and people get bored with toys and move on to the next one.

I know people will say “but it has opened up gaming to a bunch of people that did not play games before!”. I say who cares? The games they make for old people or people that suck at games do not interest me. I am a real gamer, and once this fad goes away, it’s my money the game companies will be fighting for. I doubt much of it will be going to Nintendo in the future unless they start making a game console again, not a toy.

Guitar Hero is Hot

If you’re not a pro gamer, making big money by playing games seems like a pipe dream.

But World Gaming wants to change that.

The brainchild of gamers Billy Levy and Zack Zeldin, the World Gaming website is a place where gamers can set up matches and compete against each other in Xbox 360, PS2 and PS3 titles to win money.

So basically, it is a gambling site but instead of poker you are playing video games. Sounds interesting, but I am curious how they are tracking the tournament. They say they have access to the game data, but how? They would almost need a player in each match to get the official stats unless they have a deal with the games publishers to get that info.

Either way, although it’s not for me as I am too good at games and it would not be fair to the rest of you, it does give people a new way to enjoy (or hate) video games. Hopefully not too many people lose their life savings to Halo 3 tournaments.

EA in the good old days

World of Warcraft

Blizzard embarked on the case against MDY claiming that the World of Warcraft Glider software produced by the small company infringed its copyright.

The Glider software lets Warcraft players automate many of the repetitive steps the game involves.

Read the full story here.

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(Idiot)Fans of the Vandals, the University of Idaho’s American football team, were upset that the cheerleaders’ two-piece uniforms – tops little bigger than a bra, and short skirts that looked like more hot pants – showed too much flesh.

Bruce Pitman, the university dean, said that although there were “a number of (normal)fans who liked them”, the outfits had now been deemed inappropriate.

Not too sure what to say about this other than it makes me sad. Read the rest here.