It’s true, Uli Kilian is a genius. Earning a Guinness World Record in 2011 for solving 100 Rubik’s cubes during the London Marathon, the man is hailed worldwide for his wit. His newest project, however, is what he calls rudimentary – a Lego robot that plays free-to-play games for him while he sleeps.  It all began when Kilian was playing Jurassic Park Builder, an F2P iPad game that requires the gamer to tap the dinosaurs on the screen every few minutes to earn in-game currency. For gamers who don’t want to waste precious time better-spent-doing-anything-else-really, they can dish out real-world dollars to advance in the game to higher levels. Kilian, instead, decided to take a different route.

 

 

He decided the required tapping could easily be automated, as the screen needs to be tapped every few minutes. The Rubik’s cube genius thus built a Lego robot to do his F2P game bidding during the night while he got his beauty sleep.

The robot was build using an older iPad, mounted on top of a Technics wheel. The entire unit is powered by an Arduino board, connected to a nearby laptop with a Windows OS. Atop the board sits a Lego robot, which nods back and forth, tapping the iPad screen every so often with an Arduino ground pin wrapped in tin foil, simulating human touch.

Put simply, while Kilian sleeps, a motor slides the iPad screen back and forth, positioning it so when the Lego robot taps the screen, it taps the desired area. In the game, Killian has a row of 11 dinosaurs, which each generate game money every five minutes. By the time the 3D artist wakes up in the morning, the Lego has collected hundreds of thousands of coins for him. Good boy. Kilian said he heard about the Arduino board only two weeks before he built his Lego robot and assures everyone that its the type of simple design that anyone can do (anyone that’s smart enough to solve a Rubik’s cube maybe)

 

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Persona game fans that also own PlayStation 3 consoles are sure to be pleased to learn that Atlus has this week confirmed that Persona 4 is will be arriving on the Sony PlayStation 3.
Persona 4 on the PS3 will be a PS2 Classic, so unfortunately it won’t be the Persona 4 Golden instead that you can see in the video after the jump and is available on the PC Vita

“Persona 4 is a role-playing video game developed and published by Atlus for Sony’s PlayStation 2, and chronologically the fifth installment in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona series.
Persona 4 takes place in a fictional Japanese countryside and is indirectly related to both Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 and Persona 2. The player-named main protagonist is a high-school student who moved into the countryside from the city for a year.
During his year-long stay, he becomes involved in investigating mysterious murders while harnessing the power of summoning Persona. The game features a weather forecast system with events happening on foggy days to replace the moon phase system implemented in the previous games.”

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We’ve seen several Grand Theft Auto 5 screenshots and even an interactive travelogue of Los Santos, but what we really want is an online multiplayer trailer. Well, the trailer is now available my friends.

The previous Grand Theft Auto 5 trailer let us know how the game will play out. You’ll be able to switch between Michael, Franklin and Trevor at any point. The online multiplayer mode is teased toward the end of the gameplay trailer and shows what looks like a customized character at a window from a high-rise building.

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You already spend an insane amount of your time on Facebook, so you might as well enjoy the board game based on the Social Network.

A London based graphic designer named Pat C. Klein(clever) has come up with a FB themed board game that will bring Facebook into your real life. The layout is very Monopoly. Each of the spaces has some FB based activities which are inspired by real life behavior on the social networking site. For instance, when playing with your significant other, you could end up on the box that reads ‘Break up’.

The game is in beta right now, but hopefully one day soon you will get to play it.

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Capcom has just announced that they are currently developing a new Strider game for the next generation PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles, as well PC and the older PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles.

Polygon was able to get a glimpse of the new game at San Diego Comic-Con earlier today and explained that protagonist Hiryu can wield a fiery version of his trademark sword, the cypher, that allows him to set enemies ablaze, open certain “fire doors” and deflect incoming bullets back at his targets.

The new Strider game will allow players to freely explore vast, interconnected environments using Hiryu’s acrobatic skills, as well as use his trademark plasma-Cypher and new Kunai attacks to shred through enemy droves, together with the return of his trusty robot allies.

The new Strider game will be launching in early 2014.

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Rovio the developers of the massively popular Angry Birds game has today announced the launch of a new Rovio Account service that will allow you to continue your progress through the Angry Birds series of games on any device.To allow this Rovio has launched a new Rovio Account syntonisation service to enable gamers to swap from one device to another and continue from where they left off.

 

“We know that you’ve all been waiting for a way to sync progress between devices and we really feel that we have an amazing solution in place now.

For now, Rovio Account is available on the original Angry Birds game, as well as The Croods. The next step is for us to roll this out onto other Angry Birds and non Angry Birds titles, so that’s exactly what we’re going to do!”

For more information on the new Rovio Account service  jump over to the Rovio official website for details.

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Gamers that enjoy the Arma series of games will be pleased to learn that today Bohemia Interactive has launched their new Arma 3 game out of alpha development and into beta.

The Arma 3 beta game is now available to purchase via the Steam network and is priced at £29.99 and includes the 20 km² island of Stratis.

Arma 3 Beta also includes 20 weapons, 18 vehicles, three factions, eight showcase missions, four multiplayer scenarios, four challenges, the scenario editor and modding support.

Buying the Arma 3 beta version of the game will also entitle you to a full version when it releases with a massive 290 km²gaming map and over 40 weapons and 20 vehicles. Enjoy!

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The iPad is now adding Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic to it’s long list of games available for the tablet. If you were a fan of the original BioWare RPG, you will be all over this.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is available right now, but be prepared to pay a bit more for this title. The near 2GB App Store download costs 10 bucks. Totally worth it if you are a fan and new players should like it well enough too.

It’s available right now, so what are you waiting for? May the force be with you.

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Gran Turismo fans looking forward to playing the latest Gran Turismo 6 game announced last week are sure to enjoy this driving concept footage of the new Gran Turismo 6 game uploaded by AllGamesBeta.
As explained last week Gran Turismo 6 will include 1200 cars, 33 locations, and 71 layouts with 7 new locations in addition to those included in GT5. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action.

One of the new laoctions in Gran Turismo 6 will include the UK’s Silverstone circuit, and “takes the real driving simulator experience to a whole new level” say its developers.

Hopefully more information will be revealed about the PS3 exclusive Gran Turismo 6 game at the upcoming E3 and Gamescom conferences later this year.

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Oovee has launched a new Kickstarter campaign this week for their innovative off -road challenge game called Spintires, which has been created to provide a different approach to the driving game genre.Spintires is an Intel award winning off-road driving experience designed to challenge the player’s skill and endurance lets you take the wheel of monster vehicles and drive them through the harshest terrines imaginable. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action.

“Take responsibility of operating large off-road trucks and venture across the all-terrain landscapes with only a map and compass to guide you. Featuring a unique terrain deformation system and interactive environment, Spintires is never the same – regardless of how many times you play it.”

You can also download a demo of Spintires from the Kickstarter webpage, to give the game a blast yourself before backing it. So afterwards if you think Spintires is something you could benefit from, visit the Kickstarter website to make a pledge and help Spintires become a reality.

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EVE Online Diablo 3 ain’t. While players of the Icelandic MMO giant’s opus are all but encouraged to try and wreck the game’s economy and exploiters keep their loot after loopholes are plugged, Blizzard is nowhere near as forgiving. The recent Auction House exploit that allowed players to make out like bandits has been closed and the 415 cheaters dealt with.

“The bug was the result of a coding error that was exposed when we increased the gold stack size from 1 million to 10 million,” according to John Hight, Diablo III production director. ”This resulted in an overflow on cancelled auctions that yielded a greater amount of gold in return. Only a relatively small number of players had the billions of gold necessary to exploit the bug, and only 415 of those players chose to use this exploit for personal gain.”

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Nintendo has expanded the MiiVerse social network to the web. MiiVerse was designed to be a place where Wii U users can come together and talk about all things Nintendo. Each game and product has its own community where you can go and chat with other people. Nintendo fans seem to like it.

 Nintendo has now expanded the service to include posting from the web, and has created a MiiVerse website that runs well on computers and mobile browsers. Just go to Miiverse.nintendo.net and you’ll be able to login and participate.

You can pull screenshots that you have posted to MiiVerse and share them with other social networks for instance. It’s a great addition for those who bought the console.

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Most of you probably don’t use a mac for a gaming rig, but they are pretty decent at handling that task. So some of you use a Mac for serious gaming. And so many Mac users are always on the lookout for serious gaming peripherals.

Logitech is here to supply just that. The company has announced recently that it has updated its gaming software to support more devices on Mac OS. Gamers in Apple’s ecosystem can now make the most of the company’s full line of G series mouse and keyboard products.

The update is free and promises to offer Mac users the same level of customization that traditional PC gamers get. This is great news for Mac gamers.

Source Engadget

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Are you looking forward to playing Fallout 4? Hopefully this year? Well, there is a good chance that Bethesda could be announcing the game later this year, possibly at E3. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.

The studio’s vice president, Pete Hines, hinted that we might see the game soon. Hines stated that games such as Elder Scrolls Online and the Dishonored DLC have already been revealed, hinting that the studio will be announcing “new stuff” and that it will be worthy enough for gamers to pay attention.
He didn’t come right out and say that Fallout 4 is on the list, but we know that a Fallout game is due. Also, the voice actor for Fallout 3’s Three Dog hinted at the game on his Twitter account, claiming that he was given permission to do so. Let’s hope it is better than Fallout 3. I felt like that one didn’t live up to the rest in the series.
Source Ubergizmo

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Tecmo Koei Canada is closing its doors at the end of the month after twelve years. Initially a graphical asset production house, the outfit transitioned into a fully fledged developer with ill-fated first release Fatal Inertia for the Xbox 360. The studio eventually transitioned into the mobile space with Samurai Cats and My Monster Rancher.

Despite the studio’s less than auspicious output, more than a few prominent indies reportedly had their start there, including the designer behind Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery. “It was definitely an interesting experience at Tecmo Koei Canada,” according to Harold Li, formerly of Tecmo Koei. “We had a ton of talented people who put in their best efforts, and it’s unfortunate that things didn’t go as well as it could.”

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