Hot on the tails of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 and PC announcements from Gamescom comes news from the Xbox 360 team – Kinect will launch November 10 in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Those of us in the United States of America will get it a week earlier on November 4. That’s great and [...]
After weeks of rumors, Microsoft has officially announced pricing for Kinect, Kinect bundles, Kinect titles, and availability. Oh, and there’s a new Arcade model on the way, as well.
According to Kotaku, the technical specifications for the Xbox 360’s Kinect add-on may have been outed by a British retailer. Here’s a list of what all is in there and what that stuff can do:
As a tech journalist I have a good record with firsts. I’m pretty sure I was the first journalist to see the iPhone. Ditto the Wii. Also the Xbox 360: in the months before it came out I spent a lot of time in Redmond with J Allard and the other guys who were building [...]
An interesting thing happened when I got back from E3 and sat down to talk with Lev about what’s been going on while he was out on book leave. I told him my initial impressions of Kinect and Move and more or less pooh-poohed Kinect for its piss-poor showing at E3. I specifically mentioned the [...]
Mystery solved.
Let’s get this out of the way – Sony will dominate the next generation motion control wars.
The big story on Day One of E3 2010 was the Xbox 360′s motion capture gaming device, the Kinect. Eager crowds jammed their faces up to a row of Plexiglas chambers, as demo guys showed off new titles for this ground-breaking entertainment experience.
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One of our Techland colleagues who shall not be named asked, “Is it bad that I don’t know what E3 is?”
At a fancy pre-E3 kickoff event, Microsoft officially unveiled Project Natal as Kinect with the help of Cirque Du Soleil. They not only renamed their controller free motion control system but they also revealed a catalog of titles that will launch with Kinect. The aptly named Video Chat feature was also shown off tonight that [...]
