I’ve said before that CES 2012 is the stage where we receive a look into the future of gaming. While at the show, I saw some very impressive tech such as eye tracking which could make for some very interesting games. However, gesture controls are still very relevant in the gaming space. In fact, more »

The Consumer Electronics Show is a big event that takes place every year in January. This is the time when tech companies from around the world visit Las Vegas to show off their wares. CES isn’t known as a gaming event, but there will be games on the show floor. More importantly, the potential technology that may become a big part of gaming will be there in abundance. A company called MicroVision just may possess the kind of technology that will allow us to play games in ways like never before. Whether or not it takes off is a debate for another day.

MicroVision’s got two neat gadgets on display at CES 2011, both of which will make gamers quite happy. Get ready for projectors and wireless gun controllers! Both the SHOWWX+ and Project Tuatara are going to be at the show this year, and people will be able to see and try them out for themselves.

Project Tuatara is a rather unique gun controller…

Game systems and cell phones are shrinking each year. Look at Milton-Bradley’s Microvision, the first handhled game system with removable cartridges. Released in 1979, it was about a foot tall and several inches thick. Compare that to the tiny GamBoy Micro,

A recent development by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could mean even thinner, lighter and longer-lasting handhelds. It’s a bendable battery that, according to an article by Yahoo! News, “looks like a piece of paper and can be bent or twisted, trimmed with scissors or molded into any shape needed.”

Part of the problem with batteries is…

Wired Magazine has posted a collection of 40 years worth of video game goodness, highlighting consoles through 47 images of hardware, ads and screenshots. Beginning with Baer’s Brown Box through the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii, it includes body shot of most of the main systems including NES, Neo-Geo, SNES, Famicom, Sega, Intellivision, Colecovision… oh, more »