Nintendo DSi game lets your face do the flying (video)

When it comes to video games that make you look absolutely ridiculous, nothing beats Microsoft's Kinect, but Nintendo's got a substitute if you just can't wait. The aptly-named Face Pilot: Fly With Your Nintendo DSi Camera! does exactly that, letting you literally direct a virtual hang glider with your face, by using the Nintendo DSi's camera to track your head in 2D space. Sure, Sony's EyeToy did similar things earlier this decade and you could program Windows-based FreeTrack software to do the same, but neither provide the portable hilarity (or challenge) of Face Pilot played on commuter rail. The downloadable title will set you back 500 Nintendo Points ($5) at the DSiWare store; watch a quick video demo after the break.

[Lethallax Posted Jul 26th 2010 9:19PM]

I want a 3ds already

[Psyclotr0n Posted Jul 26th 2010 9:22PM]

@Lethallax
Well I vana toilet made out of solid gold, but it's just not in the cards now is it?

[Neotyguy40 Posted Jul 26th 2010 9:24PM]

@Lethallax

This isn't a 3ds, it's a DSi.

But I agree, I can't wait for the 3ds to come out... But I think they may face some copyright claims from Autodesk =P

[MiketheVee Posted Jul 27th 2010 4:28PM]

@Neotyguy40
not if they don't put "max" at the end of it :)

[Psyclotr0n Posted Jul 26th 2010 9:21PM]

now you can create videos that ruin your work AND love life in one fell swoop!

[24hourpartypal Posted Jul 26th 2010 9:22PM]

pretty sure eyetoy was last decade, but whatevs

[iheartgadgetz Posted Jul 26th 2010 9:23PM]

Looking so stupid never looked so fun.

[MoonWalkerCTE Posted Jul 26th 2010 9:28PM]

Lool this game has been out for 3 months already? I sure bought it about 3 months ago on the digital DSI store. Well done Engadget.

[fromtheyear Posted Jul 27th 2010 1:52AM]

@MoonWalkerCTE
It just came out today. And no, you don't.

[nExtinction Posted Jul 26th 2010 9:29PM]

Wait, Nintendo does something Sony invented and you make a passing reference to Sony. Sony does something Nintendo did, but didn't invent and you guys joke about it for years. How is that fair?

[Spaceshipped Posted Jul 26th 2010 11:21PM]

@nExtinction

And what was the name of the Sony handheld with two screens and two cameras?

[Extinction Posted Jul 27th 2010 12:15AM]

@Spaceshipped Um, RTFA. They mention how its a copy of eyetoy. Like I said about passing reference? It helps if you read the comment you reply to instead of making up one in your head.

[Spaceshipped Posted Jul 28th 2010 1:02PM]

@Extinction

I read the article.

[thanksbetotap Posted Jul 26th 2010 9:30PM]

Cool idea, ridiculously boring looking game.

[elmer Posted Jul 26th 2010 9:31PM]

Reminds me of Prop-Cycle. That's totally worth a comeback.

[gilbeys Posted Jul 26th 2010 9:37PM]

Cute and entertaining

[xtian63 Posted Jul 26th 2010 9:51PM]

why????

[APV Posted Jul 26th 2010 10:09PM]

Kinda lame. When Move comes out I need to see Anti-Grav make it's way out again. It was an awesome game for the Eyetoy. Kinda like WipEout HD but snow-boards not on snow... :D

[KnifeySpoony Posted Jul 26th 2010 10:14PM]

Pilot Wings flashback...

[drumdbeat Posted Jul 27th 2010 3:44AM]

It's a handheld, just tilt the device so the camera thinks you are moving, then you won't look silly at all, kinda like the accel/gyro in mobile phones, you won't look and more stupid.

[Juggernaut408 Posted Jul 27th 2010 12:00PM]

very G-A-Y