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Mad Catz doles out Modern Warfare 2 controllers for young (and old) whippersnipers

If Infinity Ward’s own Prestige Edition of Modern Warfare 2 isn’t enough to satisfy your lust for custom hardware, Mad Catz is ready to pick up the slack with no less than ten MW2-branded peripherals. The crown jewel to the set will be the Combat Controller, which will have a couple of extra buttons, but more importantly, is likely the controller Robert Bowling was tweeting about last month. Come this November, you’ll also be able to talk smack via a Throat Communicator on the 360 or a more mundane Bluetooth Headset on the PS3, add Skinz to your controllers and Microsoft console, and even your neglected PC can be enriched with an Elite Keyboard and Sniper Mouse combo.

[Via Joystiq]

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals

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Drunk Sniper: An unofficial sequel to those iPhone beer apps

In the proud tradition of iPhone applications that demonstrate the wonders of the human body, such as the popular and lucrative fart apps, a developer called Apalon Studio has released a game called Drunk Sniper (iTunes link). You can think of it as a sequel of sorts to the iBeer application — which is one of the bestselling paid apps in the App Store — because it shows you what happens after you finish several of those virtual beers.

As you can probably guess, the game is neither tasteful nor classy, but on the other hand it makes fun and creative use of the iPhone’s accelerometer. Basically, players take on the role of a drunk guy in a bathroom stall. The goal is simple: To relieve yourself without making too much of a mess. The applications shows a stream of urine whose direction changes over time. Players tilt the iPhone to move the stream towards the toilet. As you advance through the levels, the game gets harder, presumably because your character has gotten drunker.

I played through a couple of levels, and while I’m not exactly addicted, Drunk Sniper is a fun novelty. It costs $0.99 cents for now, but the plan is to increase the price to $1.99, which seems rather high for an app that’s basically a well-executed gag — I don’t know if I’d pay full price unless I was a bit inebriated myself.

Apalon is funded for less than $100,000 by software development vendor MoveYourWeb. It recently partnered with Resistor Productions to create the equally classy iGirl app, which hit the App Store’s Top 10. By the way, Apalon notes that although the in-game character is a guy, Drunk Sniper isn’t just for men: ”Girls are free to try it and feel like guys -– this might be another brick into a bridge leading to understanding between the sexes.”

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