Check the meter For as long as there have been video games there have been systems in place to ensure that those video games do not continue on unabated. After all, what good is a truly endless experience, an interaction without incentive? Once the initial novelty wears off, what then? …
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Rock Band 4 (opens in new tab) and Guitar Hero Live (opens in new tab) are hoping to recapture the boom of last-gen’s plastic instrument peripherals on the latest consoles. Though it’s still early days, it seems like both games are aiming to play up the fantasy of being a …
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Harmonix Music Systems is not your average developer. Ever since its founding in 1995, the Boston-based studio has specialised in the dazzling crossover between music and interaction – from early and largely unknown projects such as CamJam, which used body movements to trigger audio sequences, to the globe-conquering phenomena of …
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