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		<title>New Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings Gameplay Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Hibble</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new HD-gameplay video has hit YouTube for the upcoming CD Projekt RED release; 'The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings...]]></description>
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<p>A new HD-gameplay video has hit YouTube for the upcoming CD Projekt RED release; &#8216;The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings. The new gameplay footage features our ever-aroused hero, Geralt of Rivia, as he walks around a lot, plays dice games and slices various bad guys into small pieces.</p>
<p>The new combat mode certainly appears more fluid and reactive than the first games repetitive moveset. Also visible in the video is a very slick spell-selection wheel that has Geralt igniting, shocking and dazzling his enemies into submission.</p>
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<p>The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings is due for release in Spring, 2011. Let me know what you think of the video below in the comments or via Twitter &#8211; <a href="http://www.twitter.com/DrjftGaming" target="_blank">@DarkMellie</a>.
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		<title>BoneCraft &#8211; Coming Soon From The Makers of BoneTown</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Oshry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey all you perverted RipTen readers - don't act like you've never heard of BoneTown.  Well, now the sleazy bastards at DDub software are taking it to the next level.  Get ready for BoneCraft.]]></description>
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<p>Hey all you perverted RipTen readers &#8211; don&#8217;t act like you&#8217;ve never heard of BoneTown.  You know that open world adventure game that came out a while back?  The game where you run around, do drugs and get laid?  Yeah, that one.  Well, now the sleazy bastards at DDub software are taking it to the next level.  Get ready for <strong>BoneCraft.</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_55295" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 531px"><img class="size-full wp-image-55295" title="bonecraft" src="http://cdn.ripten.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bonecraft.png" alt="" width="521" height="324" /><p class="wp-caption-text">She Can Raid My Instance Any Time . . .</p></div>
<p>RipTen was live at the 2011 Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas (jealous?) and we were pleasantly surprised to actually find some gaming news there!!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the official word:</p>
<blockquote><p>“In BoneCraft, fantasy meets sci-fi in a way only D-Dub could do it. We have elf prostitutes, horny orcs, drunken space marines&#8230; These two genres have been done a million times, and we’re doing something new to them by making a version that’s adult and humorous,” says D-Dub CEO Hod.</p></blockquote>
<div id="attachment_55294" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 471px"><img class="size-full wp-image-55294 " title="PR_BoneCraftLogo01" src="http://cdn.ripten.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/PR_BoneCraftLogo01.png" alt="" width="461" height="346" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Blizzard is Gong To Sue the Shit Outta These Guys . . .</p></div>
<p>See more at <a href="http://bonecraft.net/">BoneCraft.net</a> and be sure to check out <a href="http://www.bonetown.com/">BoneTown</a> here &#8211; You know you want to.  #Perverts</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Look for BoneCraft sometime in 2011</strong></p>
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		<title>Have Sex With Kinect (NSFW)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Alexander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thing everyone knew would happen, has totally happened. Some sad, sad person has actually coded a Sex game around Microsoft's Kinect device.]]></description>
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<p>The thing everyone thought would happen, has totally happened. Some sad, sad person has actually coded a Sex game around Microsoft&#8217;s Kinect device. Well it&#8217;s more of a tech demo in its current state, but rest assured &#8211; the developer of &#8220;fine&#8221; Sex simulators Thrixxx has shared its enthusiasm for the product:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The Kinect Controller is astonishing new technology that allows users to experience cybersex like never before! It&#8217;s novel, sexy, social, age-spanning, crazy, and a rush to have virtual control at this level&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>The video below shows a creepy identity-hidden man, who demonstrates the technology (and probably has a good time doing so). I bet you want to watch it,<em> freak. </em></p>
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<p>Source: <a href="http://www.gamernode.com/news/9940-the-first-kinect-sex-game-tech-demo-has-arrived/index.html">Gamernode</a>
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		<title>Neon ATARI Porn!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Landis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so this isn&#8217;t really porn in the traditional sense.  It just happens to be some truly amazing ATARI artwork done in neon awesomeness. Once again, I stumbled upon some neato videogame-related artwork while trapsing through the deviantART world.  These pictures were created by Surround, an artist whose profile describes him as a Venezuelan political [...]]]></description>
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<p>Okay, so this isn&#8217;t really porn in the traditional sense.  It just happens to be some truly amazing ATARI artwork done in neon awesomeness. <span id="more-5436"></span></p>
<p>Once again, I stumbled upon some neato videogame-related artwork while trapsing through the deviantART world.  These pictures were created by Surround, an artist whose profile describes him as a Venezuelan political writer.  If this is what politics are like down south, I may have to migrate there and run for office.</p>
<p>Click images for a larger view:</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cdn.ripten.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/atari-porn3-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5442" title="atari-porn3-1" src="http://cdn.ripten.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/atari-porn3-1-211x300.jpg" alt="" width="211" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>You can check out the rest of Surround&#8217;s artwork at <a href="http://surround.deviantart.com/gallery/#_browse" target="_blank">his page</a> on deviantART. <!-- adman -->
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		<title>Gamers Are More Ashamed of World of Warcraft Than Porn</title>
		<link>http://www.ripten.com/2008/06/09/gamers-are-more-ashamed-of-world-of-warcraft-than-porn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kershaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Jerald Block is a psychiatrist who specialises in helping people get over their addiction to a wide number of things, one of which is games. He argued recently in the American Journal of Psychiatry that “Internet Addiction” should become a professionally used term. In a recent interview with The Boston Globe he talks about [...]]]></description>
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<p>Dr. Jerald Block is a psychiatrist who specialises in helping people get over their addiction to a wide number of things, one of which is games. He argued recently in the American Journal of Psychiatry that “Internet Addiction” should become a professionally used term.<br />
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In a recent interview with The Boston Globe he talks about the shame a lot of gamers have when they come to him for help. He cites the socially unacceptability which games, such as World of Warcraft, have as being reasons why people find it hard to talk about.</p>
<blockquote><p>Some people come in for trouble with Internet porn. But the computer gamers tend to be harder to treat. People feel a lot of shame around computer games. Whereas, it&#8217;s socially acceptable to have a porn problem.</p></blockquote>
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He goes on to elaborate on the difference between videogames and porn.</p>
<blockquote><p>As a society we understand that porn is something people do, and you can see a psychiatrist and get treated for it. But gaming is hard to describe to anyone else. So these people can&#8217;t explain their situation to friends.</p></blockquote>
<p>Block also talks about how, even though the average age of gamers is around 30, most studies on gamers are carried out on adolescents, in part due to the more secretive approach a lot of adults take to their gaming.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s an interesting thought about WoW being more shameful than porn and how it&#8217;s mostly adults who think about it this way. But I can&#8217;t seem to shake the mental image of a mother walking into her son&#8217;s room, to see the son spin round on his chair whilst covering the screen shouting “It&#8217;s not what it looks like! It&#8217;s porn!”</p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/06/08/craft_addicts/?page=1">The Boston Globe</a></p>
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		<title>The Future is Now &#8211; Vuzix Virtual Reality Headgear Reviewed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Landis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t get this picture, please leave now. If you are anything like me, you spend a great deal of time visiting virtual worlds, i.e. playing videogames. If only there were some way to more fully immerse yourself in that world and have real life just disappear. Enter&#8230; the Vuzix! (please pretend you just [...]]]></description>
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<p>If you are anything like me, you spend a great deal of time visiting virtual worlds, i.e. playing videogames.  If only there were some way to more fully immerse yourself in that world and have real life just disappear.  Enter&#8230; the Vuzix! (please pretend you just heard some dramatic kung-fu music and perhaps a gong). <span id="more-4523"></span></p>
<p>Essentially, the Vuzix is a Federation visor thingy with LCD screens in it instead of whatever it is that was supposed to be in Geordi&#8217;s visor thingy.  Well, actually, Vuzix is the name of the company that makes the headset, not the headset itself, and there are several different models available.  The headset I spent some lonely nights with was the Vuzix iWear VR920.  To make things simple, I just called it the Vuzix.  Confusing?  Maybe &#8212; just deal with it.</p>
<p>Anyways, the Vuzix claims that wearing it is the equivalent of viewing a 62&#8243; screen from the optimal viewing distance of 9 feet away.  I don&#8217;t know how that is mathematically different than a 36&#8243; screen from 5 feet away, or a PSP screen from 6 inches away.  While I can&#8217;t really say whether or not that&#8217;s what the Vuzix view really looks like, it does <em>seem </em>like you are looking at a big screen, so whatever.</p>
<p><em><img src="http://cdn.ripten.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/vuzix2-1.jpg" alt="vuzix2-1.jpg" /><br />
Not really me in this picture.</em></p>
<p>Okay, so how does wearing a headset that just views like a big screen somehow equal virtual reality?  Well, that&#8217;s where the Vuzix&#8217;s stereoscopic 3D integrated head-tracking comes into play.  The game I was given to try this out was Microsoft Flight Simulator.  Basically, you fly around like normal with your flight stick &#8212; no change there.  In cockpit view, however, looking around in real life (by that I mean moving your head around) actually moves your view in the game.  I could actually peer out the side window, look down, and then get sick.  Yes, the experience was so immersive that looking at the tree tops as I skimmed over them actually made me a bit nauseous.</p>
<p>Some games also have a feature that makes them look like ass&#8230; at least to everyone except the person with the headset on.  It resembles the traditional 3D red and blue blurriness that really hurts your eyes when looked at normally.  When viewed through the Vuzix, however, it actually does have a bit of Third Dimensionatude.  The grass in the fields of Call of Duty 4 actually had depth and popped out at me.</p>
<p><em><img src="http://cdn.ripten.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/vuzix4-1.jpg" alt="vuzix4-1.jpg" /><br />
This is also not me.</em></p>
<p>Another selling point is the ability to play split-screen multiplayer games without having a split-screen.  I remember the fond killings in GoldenEye on the N64 that resulted in a &#8220;You fucking cheater!  You only knew where I was because you looked at my screen!&#8221;  Those days are gone.  It is possible with the Vuzix to set up a 4-player deathmatch and have each person&#8217;s individual screen on their own Vuzix.  No more real estate wasted on your big screen by other people.  I didn&#8217;t personally have 4 Vuzixeseses (Vuzixi?  Vuzixen?) to test this myself, but I did see it in action at GDC.</p>
<p>All of this, of course, has to be configured to your head and your computer.  The Vuzix ships with a software disk that makes this process relatively painless (I didn&#8217;t have a problem with it, but I&#8217;m a super genius &#8212; your experience may vary).  The only thing I did have a problem with was the DVI adapter it came with.  It didn&#8217;t fit properly into my graphics card and was a little loose, making me occasionally see some distortion in my picture. <!-- adman --></p>
<p>The Vuzix also comes with an adjustable nosepiece so that you can wear it over glasses.  Wrong!  It totally does not work.  In none of the various positions available was it situated in a way that didn&#8217;t make Dan Landis angry.  All you scientists out there would agree that just having a manual focus on the headset itself would be easier than trying to wear this thing <em>over</em> a pair of glasses.</p>
<p>I also didn&#8217;t like the size of the Vuzix, particularly the width.  Unlike your mom, I can&#8217;t spread this thing wide enough to fit my head in there without hurting myself.  The plus side is that it remains tight and doesn&#8217;t go flying off when I start headbanging, but it does grow somewhat uncomfortable after a while.</p>
<p>So the benefit of having a Vuzix here is that you get your own personal 62&#8243; self-contained multimedia experience for a fraction of the price.  With a microphone, earphones, and the LCD screens, the Vuzix is all you really need for a multiplayer online experience on the PC or console.  You can also watch porn in front of your family and they&#8217;ll never know.</p>
<p><img src="http://cdn.ripten.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/vuzix3-1-1.jpg" alt="vuzix3-1-1.jpg" /><br />
<em> Though not implemented right now, I&#8217;m pretty sure this is the interactive virtual reality that Vuzix will lead us to.  Also, not me in this picture.</em></p>
<p>On the downside, the Vuzix can&#8217;t fully replace a TV or monitor because there will always be some time in your life when you want others to see what you see, or you don&#8217;t want this thing on your face all goddamn day.  It also is not friendly to glasses-wearing fat-heads like myself, try as it may to accommodate me.</p>
<p>The bottom line here is that the Vuzix is pretty neat.  At $399, you can buy four of them and it will still be cheaper than a regular 62&#8243; television.  The Vuzix by itself is really friendly to people who value their privacy or who never play with other people in the same room (unless you buy multiple headsets), and the Virtual Reality features, while not great, are still pretty cool.  Also, as you can tell by the pictures, chicks dig the Vuzix.  Perhaps you can spend your Bush Bucks on these and help stimulate the economy (tur-hur!).
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