February 14, 2011 – 9:00 am

Oh dear. Valentine’s Day is already a bit tacky – and expensive – without a sexy motion controlled party game. I don’t think this is the type of game anyone imagined when Sony announced that the PlayStation Move would have games for older players. The game was due for release this past weekend, but it seems to have disappeared from most retailers and the UK UbiSoft Website. However our cache is made of strong stuff and we have found the terrifying official description for the game. Check out this gem:
Use the PlayStation Move Controller in unbelievable ways, as you’ve never imagined before…wave it around to the beat of your favourite tunes, old and new…put it in your pocket and act-out flirtatious actions…squeeze the controller to you or balance it to navigate precarious challenges…sometimes co-operative hugging helps, and it certainly doesn’t hurt.
Quite disturbing that performing a fun striptease is rated suitable for a 12+ game. Anyways probably best not to buy this for a loved one and stick to that overpriced set menu at the Italian down the road – though if you are in the need for some excitement I hear there are some other things you can do with that Move controller…
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October 20, 2010 – 11:18 am

American PlayStation owners shed bucketloads of tears this weekend when the PSN reality show ‘The Tester’ came to an almighty climax.
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As it’s the second Fri 13th this year, here’s some good news for those readers with paraskavedekatriaphobia (that’s a made-up fear of Friday the 13th by the way), as scientists in Amsterdam have suceeded in blocking human fear responses using Propanolol.
Because they are cool, they seem to have decided that the best way to test this was:
A: show volunteers a big, scary spider.
B: give them an electric shock at the same time.
(Man I love science). Apparently administering Beta-Blockers at the time prevented the memory of these events linking with inherant fear associations, so the victims were’nt scared the next time round. While this may seem like a complete waste of time, it does have uses in ES’s favourite thing: War! Basically, imagine legions of crack troops,or indeed legions of ill-equipped cannon fodder, all of them with no fear at all of being shot at. While the US rely on total coverage and we go for training, there are …other countries…out there where manpower isn’t really a problem that this would suit. Not to mention making it much easier to get creepy crawlies out of the bathtub(and possibly getting rid of my irrational fear of blind summits).
LINK (Phenom)

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