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Today as i was surfing the net, i stumbled across a website listing all the very latest in tech gear. Apparantly the “Epoc Emotiv” is the future of all gaming technology. By this time you may be wondering, what’s so special about this? Two words. “Hands Free”.
The Epoc Emotiv is a headset that taps into the lobes of your brain, and allows you to move everything telekineticly.

The features of this that will be appearing in the first few Emotiv game titles will include the ability to manipulate and control objects by thought, weilg amazing superpowers just by thinking about them, creatures in games will react to your facial expressions and enviroments will change due to your emotional state. Can you imagine what it would be like if this was made for a game like Fable?

But the applications for this are not just for gaming, there is computing applications for this, imagine no more mouse or keyboard. This (BCI) could even be the key of giving speech to people that can’t who suffer from ALS.

A test run reveals EPOC can be difficult to learn but mesmerizing once mastered. To think “vanish” and watch a cube disappear borders on unnerving.

University of Ulster video gaming lecturer Darryl Charles told CNN he was also uncertain whether Emotiv’s technology would take off.

“It’s a little bit harder to see. It’s quite a complex thing to force your thought on a television screen.”

However, Emotiv’s Le strongly defended the headset, saying it “works on a vast majority of people and can adapt to a wide variety of thought patterns. Emotiv has carried out tests with hundreds of people and so far we have had success on every single person,” Le said.

The website for this piece of amazing technology is www.emotiv.com, pre order one of these amazing things for the mere price of $299

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Microsoft have responded to complaints about XBox live bannings by unleashing Major Nelson and setting him off in his own blog. Complaints started trickling in from sites such as Xbox-Scene.com about people being unaboe to play their games online anymore because of the consoles being banned from the live service.

Some went so far as to complain that they could no longer play “Gears of War 2″ or “Call of Duty: World at War” which does nothing for their credibility as both games were at the time unreleased, and so to be playing them you must have pirated them.

Microsoft has taken action against a small percentage of Xbox 360 consoles that have been illegally modified in order to play pirated games… to keep gameplay safe and secure for our community of more than 14 million members… You should know that modifying your Xbox 360 console is also a violation of the Xbox LIVE terms of use, will void your warranty and result in a ban from Xbox LIVE.

How many false positives were caught in the crossfire is unknown, but I think we’re all agreed, banning pirates is no great shame.

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Iceland may still be experiencing apocalyptic-scale financial trouble, but EVE Online developer CCP continues to weather the storm. Eurogamer isreporting that in addition to developing the next expansion for EVE and another MMO called World of Darkness, the company is possibly working on an FPS based in the EVE universe.

During a presentation on the future of EVE, CEO Hilmar Petursson and senior producer Nathan Richardsson claimed that although resources were currently focused on the MMO’s next expansion, they have a “game console strategy.” Later, Eurogamer notes a video was shown of a “Halo-like” first-person shooter, complete with third-person vehicle footage, that featured architecture and gun designs “clearly redolent of the MMO’s art style.”

In EVE Online, the economy, lore, and even player feedback are heavily driven and regulated by the community, much moreso than other MMOs. Taking these concepts and applying them to a console shooter or even making a shooter that takes place in the player-driven MMO world could yield refreshingly different results. On the other hand, the last thing this industry needs is another game involving space marines or another developer risking the farm on a single high-budget title

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