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...violence, Vice City doesn't pull any punches--but why should it? Studies show the average American gamer is well into his 20s--old enough to have Wang Chunged before--yet while his tastes have matured, video games haven't been allowed to grow up with him. "There has been a demographic shift in who's playing," Donovan argues. "You're telling a 25-year-old that he's supposed to play with a hedgehog...
...windows. An interface that creates ripples in an on-screen vertical water surface when you wave your hands could lead to a whole new way of controlling software without the need for a keyboard, mouse or joy pad. Game On has something for everyone, whether you're an obsessive gamer, a student of media studies...
...veteran video gamer knows, it's not the bad guys that get you; it's the sweat. For anyone who has ever lost crucial points due to a too slippery controller, a company called Nyko has come up with what it thinks is the perfect solution: air-conditioning. The AirFlo plugs into the console and keeps palms nicely ventilated while you play. It will be available for PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube in July for $50. That's twice the price of A/C-free controllers, but not any more than most video games. Cool. --By Chris Taylor/ Los Angeles
...could speak that he would lose his vision in his early teens, excelling as an athlete was the result of accepting his disability rather than denying it. Growing up with two brothers in Hong Kong and then Weston, Conn., he was always an athletic kid, a tough gamer who developed a bump-and-grind one-on-one basketball game that allowed him to work his way close to the hoop. He was, his father Ed says, "a pretty normal kid. While bike riding, he might have run into a few more parked cars than other kids, but we didn...
...could speak that he would lose his vision in his early teens, excelling as an athlete was the result of accepting his disability rather than denying it. Growing up with two brothers in Hong Kong and then Weston, Conn., he was always an athletic kid, a tough gamer who developed a bump-and-grind one-on-one basketball game that allowed him to work his way close to the hoop. He was, his father Ed says, "a pretty normal kid. While bike riding, he might have run into a few more parked cars than other kids, but we didn...