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Head Tracking removed from Boom Blox April 15, 2008

Filed under: Fanboy — hey_suburbia @ 2:12 pm

At the Nintendo Media Summit, Boom Blox senior producer Amir Rahimi confirmed that the final version of the game will lack the head-tracking mode. The head-tracking mode was always an Easter egg, requiring gamers to set up Wii Remotes as cameras, and hacking together their own IR LED glasses.

EA wouldn’t go on-record to say exactly why the mode was cut, only just confirming it again through public-relations channels. An email statement noted, “Head-tracking was something we considered including as an Easter egg in BOOM BLOX however, we did not end up including it in the final version of the game. …”

[joystiq]

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One Response to “Head Tracking removed from Boom Blox”

  1. scullum2001 Says:

    I have this video saved to my YouTube favorites! I love it, and I can’t wait to have games that incorporate this. Too bad that it was cut out of Bloom Box… :-(

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