This post will be ground zero for all the CES coverage coming from 3D TV Source, Photography Bay and, of course, Tech Tilt. I’ll be covering CES 2010 for all three sites and there will obviously be some overlap between them. As a result, Tech Tilt will link to the appropriate coverage at Photography Bay and 3D TV Source for gear and news in their respective categories. Other tech news from CES 2010 will be covered here on Tech Tilt.
This post will be updated on a live rolling basis throughout CES 2010, so check back often for the latest updated.
The You Rock Guitar looks a lot like the Rock Band and Guitar Hero guitars; however, it’s got six real strings and a real fretboard.
You can play this guitar like any other electric guitar by plugging it into an amp, or you can even plug it into an iPhone or iPod. The folks behind it say that it also works as a Rock Band or Guitar Hero controller “that actually feels and plays like a real guitar.”
I’m cautiously optimistic about that claim as someone who plays guitar and hates the button mashing fest on Rock Band. However, I’m still trying to figure out how that it’s not a button mashing routine with this guitar as well. The data input on the game has to be the same for this guitar and the Rock Band guitars. Unless they’ve figured out a way to incorporate real notes into the color-coded icons on the screen (which the below video appears to confirm has not happened), this may not quite live up to my hopes. It does look promising that you can actually hold a pick in your hand, but I wouldn’t expect to learn how to play guitar from jamming to Rock Band with this guitar.
The You Rock Guitar carries a retail price of $179.95, which is almost enough to score you a real electric guitar like an entry-level Fender SE Strat and small amp.
I’m going to try to get some hands on time at CES and will report back with the results.
If you’re serious about your iPhone and iPod Touch gaming, you might want to check out this new Helix grip from PosiMotion. This should help you out with those driving and flying games that use the accelerometer.
As you can see from the pics, you can mount your iPhone in a horizontal or vertical manner.
The Helix will be on display at CES 2010. It will set you back $19.99 and should be available in Spring 2010. You can pre-order one from PosiMotion already.
Ghosts Attack, first person shooter game from Tarver Games, LLC integrates mobile mapping technology with a dynamic alternate reality gaming (ARG) experience. Purportedly, players can navigate the standard Maps interface to play anywhere in the world and with new episodes coming periodically players will have new content and storyline.
Ghosts Attack is available through the Apple App Store for download on iPhone and iPod Touch for $4.99. [click to continue…]
EA has announced that the ‘Medal of Honor’ saga will continue in a war-torn Afganistan in the upcoming 2010 release. This is the first time in the 10 year history of the game that it will leave the WWII era.
It sounds exciting. Hopefully, diehards will embrace it and dive in to the world of the modern soldier. [click to continue…]
The world premiere of HALO: REACH happens only at the 2009 Video Game Awards, Live 12/12 on Spike.
That’ll probably get Spike some more viewers.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Halo back story, Reach is a Human planet where the Covenant (the alien bad guys) wiped out a huge part of our civilization by “glassing” the planet with their alien nukes. Hence the tagline: “Falls 2010.” It happened before the first Halo game.
There’s a great book (for those of us geek enough to read novels about Halo) called Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund that tells the whole story. It’s a heck of a book, and I hope the game stays true to the storyline (or stays out of the direct plot of the book).
