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Novint Falcon Interview

What the Falcon does is essentially allow the user to "feel" objects in a game through a hand piece, called a grip, that sits in front of the body of the device. Connected to three servo controlled arms, the grip is equipped with 4 buttons and can remarkably be moved not only side to side and front to back but also up and down as well. The initial shipments of Falcons are set to go out on the 18th of June and with that date quickly approaching, Techgage was able to steal half an hour of Novint CEO Tom Anderson's time and ask him a few questions and to see where he saw things going.

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Rooted_Dust6916d ago

Very Interesting. I just wonder how easy it is to use. It looks like you have to have your hand suspended in the air to use it. I think I would actually have to try it before I bought it.

Karebear6916d ago

Yeah, that may be too strange for the market at large. We need a glove of some sort that people are familiar with that has feedback in it for touch. Or better yet some kind of electro-neural interface. Of course once your PC is interacting with your own nervous system, you better have one heck of a good surge protector on it :)

Rooted_Dust6916d ago (Edited 6916d ago )

I did like it when they said that down the line they would be producing add-ons, such as removing the ball and replacing it with a pistol grip for FPS's. This is the most original PC peripheral I have ever seen. My fist intuition is to lump this together with 3D-Stereoscopic glasses or Ageia PhysX cards, but this might just be good enough to go mainstream if they can get the price to an affordable level.

Rooted_Dust6916d ago

It just struck me!!! This would be the first good controller for a Star Wars light saber fighting game!

neogeo6916d ago

this peice of crap will be forgoten so fast.......wait, what was I talking about? Oh well..

Rooted_Dust6916d ago

What exactly makes it stupid? The fact that you can use it to feel weight, motion, and texture in a virtual space, or the fact that it blows the Wii out of the water innovation-wise.

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai6d ago (Edited 6d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio6d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing6d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster926d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit6d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing6d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster926d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Report: Injustice 3 in Development at NetherRealm Studios

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."