Microsoft is really good at copying the competition. And we don’t blame them — any product that makes us look like morons is an instant-sell for us.
News Blips:
• Say cheese: Microsoft to use camera to document your idiotic movements. We’ve been hearing about this news ever since the Wii debuted, but it seems like Microsoft may finally be showing off its 360 gesture-based motion camera at this year’s E3. Still, don’t expect to be shamelessly waving your limbs until 2010 — word is it’ll take a year before Microsoft can get their copy-Nintendo camera on the market. Until then, you can always play this game. [VentureBeat]
• New flashcart encourages Nintendo fans to become pirates. The DSi makes it harder to be a law-breaking cheapskate, so that’s why the company Supercard created a flashcart that lets you play pirated games on your fancy new system. Not that we support this. Because it could get you arrrrrrrrrrrested. [Kotaku]
• Lunar: The Silver Star casts a phoenix down on itself. The latest issue of Japanese gaming mag Famitsu revealed Lunar: The Silver Star (this time renamed Lunar: Harmony of Silver Star) is coming the PSP. In case you didn’t play it on the GBA. Or the PS1. Or the Sega CD. Or the Atari 2600. [1UP]
• Analysts use supreme intellect to predict obvious. A bunch of number-crunching videogame analysts are saying the upcoming Wii MotionPlus doohickey will sell a lot — 10 million units to be exact. Well, duh. In other news, punching yourself in the face makes you say, "Ow!" [Joystiq]
Hit the jump for some video blips, including a painfully obvious Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 pop-up clip, retro Commodore 64 load screens, board games you can’t buy, and…more.
Video Blips:
• Game Trailer’s Pop-Block Call of Duty video shoots you in the face with obvious. Get this: You use guns in the game. Did you know that? Probably not. Why else would they have made this video, silly soldier.
• City of Heroes expansion trailer finds home on your computer screen. Watch some random costumed-freaks yap it up. Hopefully they’ll include this guy.
Cultural Blips:
• Retro game title screens look retro. Yeah, it’s a little redundant to vector-ify some classic Commodore 64 loading screens, but that doesn’t make them look any less snazzy. [GameSetWatch]