We’ve all heard about the FPS vest, but very few of us, myself included, has had the opportunity to actually use one.  Today that changed, and the results were… odd.
The vest is certainly useful, but when someone as ticklish as I am tries it on, it can have an adverse affect on gameplay.  Video of [...]

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Star-studded parties?  Wild stage diving?  Pool parties with all-girl gaming clans?  Sadly, none of these things have happened here at QuakeCon.  As a matter of fact, a large portion of our evening was spent doing…. well… this.

That’s Lono on guitar, Drew from Hardcore Christian Gamers on vocals (or whatever), and me recovering from a coughing [...]

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The guys from PodWombats are some really nice dudes, so at first I kinda felt bad that I was fighting off the urge to giggle at their Mark 3 Pod, Gaming Immersion Hardware.  Imagine a wooden box that you climb into to play your games.  I know, I thought it was silly too.  Then I [...]

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Lono wasn’t the only one surprised by the sound from the AX360.
Being a slight audiophile, I was a bit skeptical as I stepped in front of the Tritton Booth here at Quakecon to try out the AX360.  I’ve heard headphones claim to deliver surround sound, but when it comes down to it, most use emulation [...]

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We’re tired but we scored some SWAG for the SGC, that we’re going to need to figure out how to give away.
 

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When you hear someone say Quakecon, you think a massive room filled with computers and gaming geeks glued to them. That is only a small part of the dark and seedy underbelly that strikes Dallas, Texas every year. The weird thing is that with all of the cops/security they have, no one tries to hide [...]

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