Gaming

The popular MMORP space game, EVE Online, received a blow this week as a disgruntled employee or player has released the client source code on the Internet via turrents. CCP’s response to their source code being leaked, ban people who inquire about it on their forums, search for IPs downloading the torrent and ban them as well. CCP is no joke, their forums have stated that anyone even talking about it will get banned. Now, they could just mean getting banned from the forums, but I doubt anyone would risk it.

Reports are being posted that CCP is seeding the source code to trace IP addresses back to player accounts for banning. I hope they understand that some people do play through proxy servers and IP banning can ruin this for a lot of people. (continue reading…)

Gamers will soon be able to interact with the virtual world using their thoughts and emotions alone. A neuro-headset which interprets the interaction of neurons in the brain will go on sale later this year.

“It picks up electrical activity from the brain and sends wireless signals to a computer,” said Tan Le, president of US/Australian firm Emotiv.

For those that are multi-tasking in their brains, this could be an issue. The question I would have is, are you thinking about commands such as “Run left, shoot, walk forward, jump” or will the headsets eventually work of the instinctive part of your brain?

“The headset could be used to improve the realism of emotional responses of AI characters in games,” said Ms Le.

“If you laughed or felt happy after killing a character in a game then your virtual buddy could admonish you for being callous,” she explained.