Tweet The time of the gloveless Power Glove is upon us. Microsoft has patented a muscle sensor device that, theoretically, would allow you to control things without an actual controller. The device attaches EMG sensors to your arm and detects finger movements by which muscles are being used. So yeah, pretty much magic. Like most [...]

Tweet Now, as you could probably tell by the fact my hair stereotypically covers a large quadrant of my face, I’m a fan of that whole hardcore thing. I am not, however, a fan of the flailing your arms aimlessly in the middle of a crowd to show your enjoyment of the band thing. I [...]

Tweet While Bayonetta won’t be available to the general public until the fifth, official reviews are already live and teeming with praise. But why? The general consensus is that Bayonetta perfected the combat controls from Devil May Cry and swapped out Dante for a woman wrapped in her own hair. The foot you see above [...]

Tweet Hello wonderfully potent, unbelievably attractive, and sexually gifted readers. Ripten was started back in 2007 with the simple goal of delivering videogame reviews, interviews, previews, trailers, events, and news to our reader base. The site has gone through periods that show one to three posts per day and others where it has cranked out [...]

Tweet Hey everyone. We’ve been listening to the feedback from readers and the biggest one is that our forum required a separate login in addition to the Ripten WordPress login. Well, the new forum will allow you to use the same Ripten WordPress login to access it. You can check out the new forum here and share [...]

Tweet In 2001, I was 9 years old. Bush had just become the President of the United States, America was feeling the pain from the WTC attacks, and the Xbox and Gamecube were hitting homes across the nation. Apparently, GameStop was also taking pre-orders for an obscure little game you’ve probably never heard of called [...]

Tweet PC Games recently released two new videos showcasing the capabilities of the new CryEngine 3. The biggest surprise of the video reveal? … No jungles! What the video shows instead is roughly five minutes of gameplay footage for the upcoming fantasy online game Forged By Chaos.

Tweet It’s been 2010 for just about 3 days now. This of course means that EA will be closing down the servers for a whole host of games soon (February 2), including the recently released Madden 09, and NBA 09. So much for games lasting long into the future. Hit the jump for the full [...]

Tweet There are very few things in this world that infuriate me. Currently the list stands at America’s political system, advanced mathematics, Boxxy, and when companies use their copyright gestapo to protect their intellectual property in ways that make very little sense. I’m not some bizarre Anarcho-communist weirdo who thinks that everything a company creates [...]

Tweet Have you heard of this site called Current.com? Well they started a Beta project on their site that goes around hijacking content from other site’s RSS feeds. To make it even cooler they lift the images direct from the site and steal their bandwidth too. I expect that in addition to reading this on [...]

Tweet The Nintendo Wii is starting to make big steps forward in the medical field. A study was conducted using the Wii in the rehab of patients with various mobility disabilities in North America, and medical professionals found the Wii can be used in the rehabilitation process of patients with muscle weakness, Alzheimer’s, coordination problems [...]

Tweet Well, in somewhat surprising news, it looks like Activation’s DJ Hero will be getting a sequel despite the poor sales of the original game. DJ Guetta, one of the DJ’s who worked on some DLC for the original game has confirmed he will be working on the sequel.

Tweet Recently Microsoft has expressed interest in creating gaming opportunities on mobile phone devices. This became apparent after Microsoft posted a job listing on numerous websites. The job description encompassed the integration of Xbox Live on mobile devices. 

Tweet The above video made the rounds earlier this year through a number of websites. Most places titled the video “Arrogant Kill,” and while it may be arrogant, it’s also incredibly badass. Now a similar video has hit the net, only this time the kill was made in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Hit [...]

Tweet After spending the last two-and-a-half years as a hostage in Iran, British captive Peter Moore will be returning to the UK. He and his four bodyguards were kidnapped in 2007 by an Islamic militia known as the “Shia Resistance.” Soon after being taken into captivity, three of the four bodyguards were killed. What happened to the [...]