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If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times; You can never find enough ways to kill a zombie. We’ve all been conditioned to believe the best defense against the living dead is a firearm or some kind of explosive device. Those are great items to have during the zombie apocalypse but what about chainsaws? What about guns with chainsaw attachments? Yes it does sound like a Lancer from Gears of War and it actually exists.

A member named SOC on the AR15.com forums has Macgyver-ed himself a fully working chainsaw that essentially makes the automatic rifle an afterthought. Since it’s labeled as a Firearm Mounted Anti Zombie Device, I don’t think this guy had Marcus Fenix in mind when he created it. However if there’s a new and exciting way to slay a few zombies I’ll be all over it.

Check out this video of the gun in action taking on some unwieldy pumpkins…

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A new mod has just been created for the PC game Crysis, by the HaptX Team, and it involves the Novint Falcon controller. The Falcon controller provides force feedback and allows players to really feel every action and attack in a game. The latest mod will make this controller compatible with Crysis, and will be released for download on October 24, 2008.

Apparently the highlight is that the Nano Suit will affect what players feel with the controller. Different modes will make the controller more or less sensitive. The controller will also allow players to feel actions - the ability to feel water resistance when swimming and impacts when falling to the ground are both mentioned in the official press release…

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The primary means of travel in World of Warcraft is running. You run pretty much everywhere, and some fans became curious as to what it would be like to physically experience that same amount of running in real life. The result was Aaron and Elijah’s RL Race Across Azeroth.

These guys even worked out the how the running in WoW would correspond to running in the real world. They built a treadmill which would work with WoW, set it up so they would run at six mph and prepared to run from the gates of Shadowglen to the sentries of Darnassus. They also dressed up like their characters - for scientific purposes of course.

Click through to watch Elijah and Aaron’s Treadmill Race Across Azeroth video…

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Jube808, a Pspzproject member, has created a PSP modification that is a step closer to some sort of strange DS-PSP hybrid. The user created a touchscreen PSP. Jube808, an electronic engineer by trade, has decided that his PSP was nice, but could be nicer. So he has set out to make it into the gaming device he knows it can be.

Jube808 has uploaded videos to YouTube to show the touchscreen PSP’s concept keyboard in action. He also hopes to see homebrew PSP games that make use of the touchscreen feature. Click through to watch Jube808’s development and a concept keyboard videos…

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Some of you may have caught the article about the hacked PSP made into a phone and it appears the Sony system hacking hasn’t come to an end.  This week, someone has made a Playstation 3 into a laptop. 

Even though it appears to run, I’m not certain whether you could practically use it as a laptop. It is quite large at 16 in. x 10.5 in. x 4 in. when closed and heavier than most laptops, weighing 15 pounds.  I wouldn’t want that on my…

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If you enjoyed The Dark Knight as much as I did, then I know you’ll enjoy this gem. This rare Dark Knight Xbox 360 was spotted at the Microsoft game exhibition in Taiwan.

You want one?  Well good luck getting your hands on one of these rare beauties because Microsoft only made 110 of these and it seems the only way to get one is…

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In a weird turn of events one of the most iconic characters on the Xbox 360 console, Master Chief from Halo, is making appearances on one of its bitter rivals, the PS3. Unfortunately for PS3 owners and Sony execs they are not getting a Halo port any time soon but Spartan 117 is nonetheless a playable character thanks to a very clever mod for Epic Games’ Unreal Tournament 3.

In this version of the popular shooter, PS3 owners can download user-generated content for the PC version including the Master Chief model, which is…

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Half Life 2 mod DIPRIP is car combat with your mouse and keyboard. Let’s break that down for a second: It’s a Half-Life 2 mod, so it should have all the rendering and physics power of the Freeman adventure, and it’s on mouse and keyboard, so it should have all the pinpoint accuracy and diverse weapon sets that PC shooting embodies.

Those benefits are in there somewhere, but you have to work a bit to enjoy them. You’re laying the pedal on pretty thick most of…

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Physics are a really important aspect of any game whether it is a platformer, an RPG or a first-person shooter. Our world and every kind of interaction we have in it are ruled by the laws of physics so any kind of world that intends to resemble our own must abide by those same rules.

Applying physics to a game represents a challenging task because it involves a series of very complex rules and calculations that must happen very quickly in order for the world to react and behave realistically. Huge amounts of computational power are needed for this task so in the world of computers where resources are never enough, administering the hardware available to any gaming machine is essential.

Ageia Technologies, a company dedicated to the production of physics processors and engines, recently announced its PhysX Mod-Kit for Unreal Tournament 3 on the PC. This kit will allow modders and developers to create new levels for Unreal Tournament 3 that employ Ageia’s advanced physics engine allowing for fully destructible environments with lifelike debris and particles, realistic explosions and a full fledged tornado thrashing through the level. All the debris and particles from the explosions behave realistically and are affected by the forces around them, including the tornado’s vortex, which will pull them in turning them into deadly projectiles. The mod kit will also include new weapons and multiplayer capabilities.

Ageia’s PhysX Mod-Kit for Unreal Tournament 3 can be downloaded for free from Ageia’s webpage, but PhysX Accelerator hardware, which starts at around $99, is required for a smooth play. These are the system requirements:

• OS: Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
• Processor: 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6400 or equivalent
• System RAM: 1 GB
• Video Card: NVIDIA 7900 GT or equivalent
• Hard Drive Space: 1 GB free
• Physics Card: AGEIA PhysX 100 Series*
• PhysX Driver: AGEIA PhysX System Software version 7.09.13 or newer

* The AGEIA Extreme Physics Mod requires an AGEIA PhysX Accelerator to run at a sustainable playable frame rate on most systems.

This sounds like great news for all UT fans and from the looks of a video on Ageia’s webpage (the tornado looks awesome) it should be great news for any fan of gaming. It seems weird when there’s a wall that resembles tinfoil and when you shoot a rocket at it, it doesn’t even get bent. Destructible environments add a layer of realism and help in creating a more enjoyable experience. Technologies like this drive gaming further by creating a more realistic world and giving the player a more immersive experience.

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Take Two announced today that it has finally settled all consumer class action lawsuits pending in the US against the company and its subsidiary Rockstar Games regarding the controversial third party program called “Hot Coffee Modification” that unlocks a sex scene in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

The lawsuit began when 85-year-old Florence Cohen who, up until July 20, 2005, didn’t care if her 14-year-old grandson played mature rated games like GTA: San Andreas. That is, until her grandson, who had the modification program unlocked a very steamy scene in a game where the player’s objective is to please the woman he’s with.

The program Hot Coffee v2 was made available online on a few GTA-specific websites on July 7, 2005, allowing players to unlock the scandalous secret hot sex minigame that Rockstar hid in the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions of the GTA: San Andreas game. Since posted, there have been more than 31,200z viewers and has been downloaded more than 7,200 times.The most recent download was made November 10, 2007. The download also unlocked other secret sex scenes and the ability to interact with any female characters any time the player wanted.

“If the case had continued, we believe the court would have agreed that Take-Two was not liable for consumers acting independently to modify their games with third-party hardware and software to access normally inaccessible content,” said Ben Feder, Chief Executive Officer of Take-Two. “Nonetheless, we believe it is in the best interest of the Company to avoid protracted and costly litigation to prove our case and to finally put this matter behind us.”

It was already bad enough that Take-Two’s subsidiary, Rockstar Games, had already caused controversy because of its violent content, but things got out of control when it was discovered that sexually explicit scenes could be unlocked.

As a result, under the terms of the settlement Take-Two agreed to offer the following benefits to consumers who were upset or offended by the “hot coffee” content of the game if they:

• Bought a copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas before July 20, 2007.
• Were offended and upset by the ability of consumers to modify and alter the game’s content using the third-party Hot Coffee modification.
• Would not have bought the game had they known that consumers could modify and alter the game’s content using the third-party Hot Coffee modification.
• Would have returned the game, upon learning the game could be modified and altered, if they thought this possible.

Take-Two also agreed as part of the settlement to offer benefits that ranged from exchanging the game disk for an edited “sex free” copy of GTA: San Andreas to paying consumers up to $35 if they can submit detailed proofs of purchase for the game. The actual value of cash payments will depend on the number of consumers who actually apply for these benefits. Take-Two said in their press release that it’s prepared to commit to $1.025 million in settlement benefits.

This amount is in addition to the out of pocket costs, cost of providing notice to class action members and paying a fee to the plaintiff’s counsel, the expected cost of the settlement and other related expenses Take-Two must endure as part of the agreement.

“Its coming out of a rough stretch and we’re very optimistic for the new year,” said Mike Hickey, Janco Partners analyst, who added that this lawsuit would not likely have any negative effect on the company but its organizational restructuring would help their earnings.

Take-Two took the initiative to set aside more than a million dollars to pay the benefits and set aside as much as $2.75 million if needed to meet the needs despite the companies shares dropping 9 cents and closing at $16 per share prior to their announcement of the settlement.

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