game-gun posts

A couple of months ago, the Internet lit up with videos of the GameGun, a first person shooter controller that was created by a slightly redneck-looking man. However he came up with an ingenious combo of a plastic toy gun, a small LCD screen and a Gyration PC mouse that makes the controller, at least in the YouTube clips, perfect for such games.

At the time the "Game Gun Guy" never mentioned any plans to market this device but now he's saying that he's planning to release the GameGun as a real product sometime before Christmas. We don't know how much this puppy willl cost but if he puts it on sale we might have to spend a few bucks to check it out for ourselves.

[Via Engadget]

YouTube can bring us some rather odd and disturbing scenes but it's also a source of wonderment as well. Witness the 'Game Gun Guy" who has created a mod using a plastic toy gun, a small LCD screen and a Gyration PC mouse to create a a fully motion tracked controller that's perfect for playing first person shooters like F.E.A.R. (on the high difficulty level no less)

Ah but that's not all. This same guy has gone ahead and created a wireless version of the same gun (well at least it's not connected to the PC anymore; that's a rather long wire for a "wireless" device) which you can check out in another video after the jump. It looks like he's playing Far Cry or one of the Crysis games (we don't know for certain) but that's not the point.The point is that why isn't a professional controller maker creating something like this?

[Via Engadget]