Category: Videogames

Gen Kanai sent me this article about a young Spanish guy who has managed to become a professional car racer having trained almost exclusively playing with the video game series Gran Turismo for Playstation. This demonstrates once again how “serious” video-games can be, it brings to my mind the novel Ender’s Game. Another case also related with Gran Turismo is how the control panels from the video game are starting to be used in cars in the real world.

From virtual to real!

Haripako sent me this awesome video featuring one of the latest Namco video-games for Wii (WiiWare) in Japan. It is one of the most bizarre games I’ve seen lately, the objective of the game is to catch a “protein bucket thief” who likes to always get the proteins from others in a gymnasium. It is pretty awesome to see how they made a pretty decent game from a so “absurd” idea:

The game’s website is also pretty cool.

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