Geek News - Jan 12

Geek News: Monday, January 12, 2009
On this date in 1966, Batman premiered

The first flying car is scheduled to take to the air next month. If it survives its first test flight, the Terrafugia Transition, which can transform itself from a two-seater car to a plane in 15 seconds, is expected to land in showrooms in about 18 months’ time. Its manufacturer says it is easy to keep and run since it uses normal unleaded fuel and will fit in a garage. The Transition, developed by former NASA engineers, is powered by the same engine on the ground and in the air, it will be able to fly up to 500 miles on a single tank of gas at a cruising speed of 115 mph.

The 11 most anticipated games of 2009 are:
Punch-Out!! (Wii)
This revival of Nintendo's Classic with Glass Joe
Infamous (PlayStation 3)
Infamous is being billed as the ultimate superhero simulator, a game that lets you choose your path, saving the city or wreaking destruction.
Grand Theft Auto : The lost and the Damned (Xbox 360)
Resident Evil 5 (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
The Beatles Game (Multiplatform)
The odds-on favourite to be the biggest thing to happen to videogames, and maybe even music, in 2009.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II (Windows)
BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC)
Dark Void (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows)
StarCraft II (Windows, Mac)
Killzone 2 (PlayStation 3)
Rhythm Heaven (Nintendo DS)

Rhythm Heaven is a collection of hilarious, inventive and often brutally difficult music- based minigames