Five Fantastic Video Game Developments for People to Get Excited About

We live in exciting times. There’s a lot of interesting stuff and new ideas just arrived on the videogame market, and some more things just starting to appear on the horizon. Here are some things that I, (And I think many others) are looking forwards to in the immediate, or very near future.

Head Tracking

Johnny Lee is a genius. Let no man say otherwise. Taking one Wiimote, and a few dollars worth of equipment from a radio shack, then combining them in a way a five year old could do (unscrupulous employers take note), he’s managed to achieve possibly the greatest 3D special effects I’ve yet seen. Such a simple idea Here, have a butchers:

Given the fact Nintendo seem to want to try and create an immersive console with the Wii (Motion sensing, the Wii fit, the Wii me and so on), I’m amazed no one in their company came up with this idea! Think of it, one spare Wiimote for the head tracking, and one to play. Anyone who was moving their head to try and get a better look around when 3D games first came out (God I feel old), will be able to appreciate just how interesting this technology could be.

And that’s not all, here’s Johnny (hehehe) at the TED conference, showing off another one of his uses for the Wiimote. Without a doubt, the most well earned applause in recent times:

Interested?

• Sony jumps on the bandwagon.
• Johnny s Wiimote developments.
• Technical details on head tracking (for techies)

Spore

UPDATE: Spore has been released! For my review, click here.

It seems to me in recent years that new ideas have become something of an endangered species in the videogames industry. Stroll down to your local videogame store and see how many sequels, prequels franchises, re releases and ports you can spot. So when a new idea comes out, I always pay rapt attention. A couple of years back, I was attending a massive LAN party (the insomnia series if you’ve heard of it), and while I was