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Kinect / Arduino hack makes stuffed monkey dance for your amusement

Just when you thought that people had squeezed the last drop of creativity out of Microsoft's Kinect, something like this comes along. It's a stuffed monkey with a robotic skeleton that can mimic the movements of the person standing in front of it. "Monkey Business" is an art installation of sorts created by Jan M. Sieber and Ralph Kistler. It uses a camera sensor from a Kinect, an Arduino mircocontroller, and 10 servomotors. The smirking robo-monkey, meanwhile, is suspended from the wall, giving it a full range of movement. The resulting video is pretty darn delightful.

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dark-hollow5057d ago

Ms should let indie developers develop games and apps for kinnect because 80% of the coolest things that the kinect can do is done by a hack.

mac_sparrow5057d ago

I agree, though what we have to remember is that these hacks mainly run on PC's, which use their extra processing power to help reduce the effect of the removed chip.

Move should also be more open, the software is good, and $99 isn't so bad, but there's no submission process (that I know of). Both Sony and Microsoft would do well to realise there is a lot of talent out there. A 13 year old student of mine already makes his own games using free software he was originally shown in school.

gamingdroid5057d ago (Edited 5057d ago )

The processing power in the Xbox 360 is more than enough to do everything I have seen shown by the "indie" community so PC's "superiority" in raw processing power is irrelevant. Can you be more specific on what examples needs the extra processing power?

I believe MS has already said they will support indie's, just not when the tools will be released.

mac_sparrow5057d ago (Edited 5057d ago )

How about
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

or
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Whilst neither of these are 'games' in the sense that MS are wishing to sell they are exceptional examples of creativity using PC's and the SDK.

I don't know if you have 3D modelling and animation experience, but the 360 (and PS3) would struggle with inverse kinematics in anything approaching real time.

A quick look around http://www.kinecthacks.com is quite enlightening.

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The Evil Within Deserved More: A Great Horror Series Left Behind

The Outerhaven writes: While I hold Bethesda's The Evil Within series as some of the best Survival Horror games available, it's clear that Bethesda has no intention of revisiting the series. While Capcom is still working on its Resident Evil series, I look back at the now-dead survival horror series from Bethesda, wondering why the series was left wide open, and yet still not revisited.

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SimpleSlave57m ago

An OK horror series left behind. It had some great ideas, but it never knew how to play to its strengths. Instead, it came out like just another RE4 clone.

I would love for a third entry to come out, but it needs to learn to lean in on the psychological aspect and move away from the generic "pew pew" ideology at the center of the gameplay loop. It doesn't need to abandon it; it just needs to put it into better context, is all.

Also, try a first-person perspective instead. Too many 3rd-person games with nothing to offer but an avatar taking precious screen space. At least make it an actual option and not that janky-ass mess the second game pretended to have.

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John Marston Voice Actor Teases "Exciting" Red Dead Redemption News

During a livestream on his personal Twitch channel, Rob Wiethoff (who voices John Marston in the Red Dead Redemption series) hinted at "exciting news" to be revealed next week. According to Wiethoff, the news will be announced "before Friday".

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jznrpg1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

PS5/Pro/Switch 2 version of RDR2 seems most likely. I’d love a RDR3 but that seems years away

Cacabunga4m ago

Id be happy for just a 60fps patch

Profchaos1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Their contracts are iron clas if they leak anything legit they are threatened with immense legal action.

My hopes for what this is are minimal its probably a meet and greet with the cast

I dont see why they would be involved in a upgraded version of rdr2 when the dialogue hasn't changed

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XBLA Classic 'A World of Keflings' Is Coming to Steam, and There's a Demo

"Back in the innocent days of 2010, A World of Keflings was a fairly popular successor to A Kingdom for Keflings. I even wrote about it a few times in 2012! But the world of humans moved on, and NinjaBee's city-building/adventure game was last seen on the ill-fated Wii U in 2014. Fast-forward to the dark year of 2025, and not only is A World of Keflings coming to Steam, but there's already a playable demo! Perhaps the cheerful, no pressure gameplay that the Keflings bring is just what we need nowadays," says Co-Optimus.

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