Word: gamers
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...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...
...great job," Delaney-Smith said. "She had been a bit off in terms of her effectiveness. She had a great week of practice and played two great games--she played great against BU as well. She's a gamer and I certainly thought that showed tonight...
Part of the reason for the underwhelming array of games, gamemakers say, is that PS2 is hard to program for. "The PS2 is definitely more powerful than Dreamcast," says John Carmack, the multimillionaire, ponytailed master gamer behind legendary shooters like Doom and Quake. "But it's less convenient to extract performance from it." This is, however, a predictable stage in the gaming cycle: it's hard for gamemakers to do their best work on a platform that isn't available yet. The best PlayStation2 games are yet to come...