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December 16th, 2009 at 02:15pm
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Much like the comical co-host of The Tonight Show with Conan O’ Brien, we were infuriated by Hugh Jackman’s victory in the “Best Male Voice Actor” category during last week’s Video Game Awards ceremony. That Vector Monkey was destined to land in the hands of Andy Richter, who, you may or may not know, provided the voice of Assassin’s Creed 2’s titular killer, Ezio Auditore de Firenze a Lamborghini et Manicotti Formaggio.
You can view Richter’s outburst, as well as a bit of his work in the game, in the Tonight Show clip posted on the show’s official site.
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November 28th, 2009 at 11:30pm
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Speaking to a room full of executives focused on “the business of online video” at this year’s Streaming Media West trade show, it’s easy to understand how Xbox Live GM Marc Whitten could fall into hyperbole regarding the implications of Project Natal. “I believe that this will be the largest leap of TV experience since the remote control,” Whitten said on the subject, reports Yahoo Tech. “With the flick of my wrist I can change a channel … with the power of my voice I can start a movie.”
Aside from the more obvious implications to television using technology that can interpret voice and motion, he sees a future where Natal will recognize individual voices in a room and allow for a variety of human input – from “laughter” to “the number of people in a room” and everything in between. “Watching a movie is a passive input, but a TV should understand what you’re trying to do.” We don’t know about you, Marc, but we’re a bit worried about the implications of our television understanding what some of us are trying to do.
[Via Edge]
Microsoft’s Marc Whitten sees Natal replacing television remote controls originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 4th, 2009 at 06:00am
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CBS announced today that it’s bringing a wide array of its TV programming to the video game world, mainly via the PC, Wii and DS. As you can see after the break, the company revealed equally insipid-sounding game versions of Survivor, Hollywood Squares, The Amazing Race, and Criminal Minds, but we don’t see how we’re supposed to care about any of it when it was also revealed that a Diagnosis Murder game is in the works.
We’re assuming it’s a Visceral-developed “dark” take on the DM mythos, with a Gothic Dr. Mark Sloan walking a demonic version of Los Angeles, solving murder mysteries with a caduceus-shaped staff dipped in angel blood. We assume this because we laid out the design doc pretty clearly in our letters, and we can’t fathom why CBS would want to disappoint us.
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Tags: cbs, criminal-minds, csi, diagnosis-murder, ghost-whisperer, legacy-interactive, licensed-games, ludia, merscom, mindscape, survivor, television, the-amazing-race, the-hollywood-squares, tv, ubisoft
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July 2nd, 2009 at 11:15am
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Nintendo has made a deal with UK TV station Five to fully fund one of its new shows, MCV reports. The Advertiser-Funded Programming deal means that Nintendo will pay for eight episodes of the new Britain’s Best Brain show, which subjects contestants to five tasks, each designed to test a different brain function: “memory, co-ordination, numeracy, recognition and risk.”
Obviously, we suspect Nintendo will use this opportunity as a promotional platform for the Brain Training series. If it were, say, Capcom looking for Britain’s best brain, there would be cause for concern. MCV notes that in-show product placement is illegal, meaning that Nintendo will have to relegate the DS mentions to ads.
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Tags: advertising, brain-age, britains-best-brain, casual, five, television
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