It was roughly a few weeks ago that Emotiv was able to introduce their EPOC neuroheadset to the whole world.

Now we got wind that the company is looking for candidates to be the beta evaluators for upcoming brain-controlled gadget. Find out the details after the jump!

Headplay is probably every couch potato's dream. Imagine a TV. Now imagine being able to take it anywhere and everywhere you go (except perhaps in the shower), and being able to watch movies or play games on it anytime you want. That's the concept for the new "Personal Cinema System" device, Headplay.

Headplay is a head-mounted device; basically, a TV you wear on your head. You can connect it to your gaming consoles, your DVD Player, your iPod, your PC, and maybe your Betamax player if it hasn't choked on dust yet. If it has a video out function, Headplay can most probably display it. You can also plug in a memory stick and Headplay can run the media files - movies, videos, and images - with its own built-in player.

Once you're behind the lenses of Headplay it's pretty easy to just relax and go dead to the world around you. It's nothing but you and the screen, with the stereo sounds blocking off everything else. It's like your own movie screen inside your living room.

To read the complete review of Headplay - what it is, what it does, how it plays on Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, and Nintendo' Wii on it - click on the link for the full article.

Some players have been complaining about not being able to use their USB headsets in the World of Warcraft PTR. This is a very big problem considering a lot of players (this blogger included) use USB headsets to listen to music and to chat during the game.

As it turns out, to be able to use the headsets, you have to make sure to plug in the headset before starting the game. Load the game and enable the headset in the voice/sound options. Restart the game and you should be good to go. This has been confirmed to work by Blizzard poster Datth.

It was also mentioned that in the post that there are two separate sound outputs: one for game audio and one for voice audio. If you wind up hearing some sounds coming from your main speakers while the rest are routed through your headset, you'll have to go into sound options to change that.

So what are you waiting for? Fire up World of Warcraft and try it out. Hopefully, Blizzard will be able to find a way to simplify things eventually.

WoW's turning two soon, and Blizzard's not about to let anybody forget that as they sponsor WoW's 2nd anniversary sweepstakes; and the prizes are looking very good indeed. The Sweepstakes begins October 29, 2006 at 12:01 AM Pacific Time (Hmm, we're two days late...sorry, our bad) and ends on November 26, 2006 at 11:59 PM PT. It will be divided into two specific categories:

• The WoW 2nd Anniversary main sweepstakes: For gamers with a registered WoW account as of October 29, 2006.
• The WoW 2nd Anniversary Legacy Player sweepstakes: for gamers with a  registered WoW account as of November 29, 2005.

Anybody with an account of good standing are automatically eligible for either sweepstakes, and only citizens living in U.S. states (exculding the states of Florida, Rhode Island, Puerto Rico), and players aged 18 or above are eligible.

Prizes at stake:
Winners will be chosen at random, and the following prizes will be given out depending on the week of the draws.

For the WoW 2nd anniversary main sweepstakes:

• 1st week (October 30  to November 5): Two winners will be chosen at random to win a Jinx Gift Certificate worth roughly $100.
• 2nd week (November 6 to  November 12): Two winners will win 1 Razer Copperhead Precision mouse, 1 Razer Mantis Control, Speed Mat and Barracuda HP-1 Headset with an approximate retail value of $250.00.
• 3rd week (November 13 to November 19): One winner will be chosen to win an Apple 80 GB iPod with Video Playback and  one $100.00 Jinx Gift Certificate with an approximate retail value of $500.
• 4th week  (November 20  to November): One winner will be chosen to win a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce 7950 graphics card, and one $100.00 Jinx Gift Certificate with an approximate retail value of $1,000.00.

Legacy Player sweepstakes are eligible for the award in mentioned earlier, and are also eligible for a special 5th week luck draw, and one lucky winner receives an XPS Gaming Laptop, a $100.00 JINX Gift Certificate, and a two-year World of Warcraft subscription with an approximate retail value of $2,500.00.

Potential winners will be announced on the official website, worldofwarcraft.com. The player's most-played character name and resident server will be posted, and emails will be sent to the winning character. Only one prize is allowed per entrant. This is just the basic gist of the event - for the nitty-gritty details, we recommend you check out this article's source link. The next  few weeks could just be your lucky day!

Imagine this: two factions, having maintained an uneasy peace for fifty years, have now parted ways and abandoned a project that would have provided limitless, eco-friendly energy for an entire world. Now, a small handful of corporate capitalists have seized energy resources, acquiring huge fortunes and are holding the peoples of this world hostage, sucking up all the planet's resources for their own profits while impoverishing entire nations. While human needs are neglected, weapons manufacturers are doing a brisk business as most of the planet's resources are used to protect these corporate entities and their massive profits...

Sound familiar?

It should, if you have been to the Phillon planet, virtual world of the MMORPG, Space Cowboy Online. This 3D Space Shooter allows players to pilot their own fighter ships, known as "Gears." They have the option of upgrading their fighting skills as well as their gears. Unlike most MMO games, players have full control over their craft; there are four different kinds of ships available.

SCO combines features of First-Person Shooters with elements of Role Play. It's free to download and play. It doesn't appear to be a resource hog, either: recommended system requirements consist of a Pentium 4-1.7G,  512Mb RAM, 64MB hard drive space and an Nvidia GeForce4Ti accelerator VGA card, as well as a Headset.

The news today: Space Cowboy will open up a brand new server next Tuesday morning following regular weekly maintenance, called Trimus. All players will start on the new server at level 1, and there will not be any nation leaders on the new server until a brigade leader hits level 60. You can read a definition of the Leader System here. SCO is published by GPotato.

Space Cowboy will be opening up a brand new server, Trimus, on Tuesday morning after the regular weekly maintenance. All players will start on the new server at level 1, and there will not be any nation leaders on the new server until a brigade leader hits level 60, as defined in the Leader System.