Grumpy Gurevitz writes: Accessible, casual, open to both males and females and affordable. These are the words the gaming industry has been throwing around ever since the launch of the original ‘chunky DS’.
The argument is that more people than ever are involved in gaming and that videogames have ceased to be the ‘plaything” for nerdy boys and have not only become ‘adult’ (as those boys have grown up), but have also become sources of fun for girls, women and pensioners.
New hardware has been designed to support these potential gamers. Everything from the Wii, Kinect and the huge expansion of the smart phone market which can offer more processing bang than the current DS, has resulted in a wider range of gaming experiences than existed five years ago.
A group of surgeons made headlines after they managed to perform an endoscopic procedure on a pig located in Hong Kong by using PlayStation controllers. It involved the use of a PS5 DualSense controller as well as a PlayStation Move controller.
Yet another powerful device Sony gave up supporting. KZ3 move was one of the best motion controller implementation ever
That's really cool. It's crazy something like that is possible with gaming controllers 1000's of miles away.
Air Conflicts: Secret Wars debuted in 2011, and later updated for modern consoles. However, it's the PlayStation 3 edition that stands out.
Joy Ride Turbo launched 10 years ago today. The first title was Xbox Kinect exclusive, yet this sequel failed to support the device at all.
The title of this article could so easily be misinterpreted...
You took your non-nerd wife to a nerd fest? You evil man.
I could probably get my wife to come along to one of these things. Provided I could get hold of some chloroform.
"open to both males and females" Aren't all games open to both male and females? Or is there a secret world of male games... Out of reach to the average female
Gamer? :p
At least his wife gave it a go. It was interesting to hear her observations about Sony and Microsoft's blatant Wii rip-off launch games.