Ever Wanted To Play Halo On Your PS3?
Every Cell in my Playstation is tingling with excitement. Just last week, iPod hacker extraordinaire George Hotz announced that he had cracked the PS3. This week, he gives us the goods, by which I mean the software exploit he's developed. Because I am not a hacker, I will not attempt to explain how he did it. Actually, he does that quite well himself.
Study Finds That “Big Brain Think Good”
A recent study conducted by the University of Illinois, the University of Pittsburgh, and MIT surprised several people when it found that brain size is proportional to video game performance. The experiments consisted of people with relatively little gaming experience playing two games specially developed for the study. One game had players concentrate on a single task (think Tetris), the other shifted their attention between multiple jobs (think a strategy or simulator game). Presumably these were non-competitive games, and results were compared via a scoring system. If I'm reading the article right, the team found that they could predict the best player 25% of the time based on the size of their brain.
Video Game Super Slam — Bayonetta
I'll be back, gorgeous.
Bayonetta is a very strange game. It snubs masculinity and macho manliness in a genre dominated almost exclusively by burly, muscle-bound, devilishly attractive men and Spartan war gods. The debates as to whether or not it's a culturally progressive game or an exploitative assault against women still rages on. It employs sex as a deadly weapon where other similar games have used it as a minor and often completely overlooked selling point.
It's also easily the best game in its genre to this day.
Anime’s “Best of the Noughties”
As some of you may or may not know, yours truly is a Something Awful forums member -- I paid my ten bux. The anime subforum on SA proposed that posters submit a list of the five anime series released between 2000 and 2009 that they thought were truly special, groundbreaking or otherwise significant. Being the opinionated person that I am, I had to contribute my horrible animu picks.