Many games designed for the Playstation 2 EyeToy camera come across as gimmicky and lacking substance, but developers Harmonix have truly managed to tap into the device’s full potential. Last year saw the release of their game “AntiGrav,” which uses the camera to track body motions and control an on-screen hover boarder . Now comes Karaoke Revolution Party, which allows players to use the EyeToy to actually create 3D models of their heads. This isn’t just a case of the game displaying what the EyeToy sees; the program analyses front and side views and creates a fully animated and interactive video game head. These models can then be applied to on-screen karaoke singers and outfitted with new hairstyles, outfits and accessories. The process is a little tedious, but the results are pretty amazing (if a little freaky.) Click here to view more photos of my wife Janet and I appearing within the game.

Lauren Johnson and Ted Ottaviano of Book Of Love have a new band called The Myrmidons. The group is rounded out by vocalist/guitarist Lori Lindsay and has have launched a website at http://www.themyrmidons.com/. We’ll be running a full interview with the band soon, but in the meantime asked Lauren to briefly tell us about the project.

“We got the name from a Shangri Las compilation called The Myrmidons of Misery…we thought that was such a cool sounding word. Historically they were a bunch of martyrs who fought tooth and nail against the Trojans in that war and lost miserably. We don’t think of ourselves that way but we do care about the plight of popular music.

Ted and I have been writing on our own and always the stuff we did together seemed different than what we did in BOL, even though it’s still us. We were lucky to have found Lori because she really is an old soul and draws from some of the same pools… but she definitely brings the material alive in a way we never even expected!

We are presently looking for a home for this, in the meantime probably in the next two months we will have some vinyl (7″inches) and the limited edition cd to follow shortly after- both will be available through the website.”

The Prodigy will be releasing ‘Their Law – The Singles 1990 – 2005′ in the US on Tuesday, February 28, 2006. Already a #1 hit in the UK album charts, the double CD features all The Prodigy’s Top 20 singles, plus new, previously unreleased tracks – “Razor”, “Back 2 Skool”, “Voodoo Beats” and a remix of “Under my Wheels.” On the same day, a companion DVD will be released featuring music videos and live performances.

Though not for everyone, the new movie version of AEON FLUX certainly doesn’t warrant the kind of scathing reviews it has been getting. It’s as if the critics were inconvenienced by the cancellation of press screenings and wanted revenge. Plot-wise, AEON FLUX is actually one of the most engaging science fiction films of recent years. Sure, it’s highly stylized and has action sequences with no rooting in reality, but remember, it IS BASED ON AN MTV ANIMATION SERIES. The storyline has much more depth than you’d expect based on the previews, and it really does take some often-used sci-fi concepts into a new direction. The film strays quite a bit from the source material, but then again the series was not known for consistency anyway. So, if you’re curious at all about the film, just GO SEE IT and pay no attention to the critics.