Tagged: Kinect

Kinect causing red ring of death

Release dates / Xbox 360

21 Jun, 2010

Microsoft Kinect Xbox 360 release date

We finally have a name for Project Natal; Microsoft Kinect – it’s a different name to Natal but we all got used to Nintendo Wii right? As we all now, Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 is basically their response to the success of Nintendo Wii. The future is apparently here; no more cables, no more controllers and certainly no more lazy ass sofa gaming. Kinect for Xbox 360 is a device which sits beside your television just like the Wii’s Sensor Bar but does a whole lot more besides. The Xbox 360 Kinect features:- A motion camera running at 30FPS...

Your Shape Fitness Evolved

Release dates / Xbox 360

21 Jun, 2010

Your Shape Fitness Evolved release date

Who’d have thought in 2006 that games consoles would be transformed into fitness equipment? Well only Nintendo it seems but after sales of 23 Million copies of Wii Fit later and now everyone is on the bandwagon. Ubisoft’s Your Shape Fitness Evolved for Xbox 360 uses the brand new Kinect peripheral to bring home fitness to a new physical level, we’ll have to see how well it works without the Wii Balance Board and it’s fundamental ability to weigh the user. The Your Shape Fitness Evolved release date for the Xbox 360 is Winter 2010. Buy Your Shape Fitness Evolved...

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News / Xbox 360

17 Jul, 2009

Xbox Kinect FPS games

Microsoft has filed numerous patents for new FPSs using the Natal hardware – now renamed as Kinect. In the patents they talk about first-person games smoothly transitioning into third-person where you get a better view of what’s going on. I guess we’ll have to wait a few more months to see exactly what they’re talking about. Buy Natal now New: Buy Kinect from Amazon.com Related: Project Natal console package

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News / Xbox 360

22 Jun, 2009

Microsoft E3 roundup

Just like last year Microsoft took to the E3 stage with all guns blazing without fear from Sony or Nintendo who preferred to wait for 24 hours and see just what Microsoft had been up to since the previous show. Whilst many details were leaked beforehand, Microsoft still had a few surprises up their sleeve and at the end of their conference seemed pretty pleased with themselves and confident that their rivals wouldn’t be able to match their announcements. Things started off a little shakily as the first four games to be revealed were non exclusive titles, surely if you...

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News / Xbox 360

19 Jun, 2009

Project Natal console package

There’s now talk that Microsoft’s Project Natal is actually a new console instead of just a peripheral for the Xbox 360. It’s rumoured it will be part of a new Xbox 360 with added features geared towards more mainstream gamers. Buy Kinect now New: Buy Microsoft Xbox Kinect from Amazon.com Related: Microsoft E3 highlights, Xbox 720

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News / PS3 / Xbox 360

8 May, 2009

Motion sensor controllers for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3

It seems that Microsoft and Sony may be showing off new motion sensor technology at E3 in LA in June. If that’s the case then maybe they’ve finally found a use for it in an actual game that doesn’t just rip off the Wii. I guess we’ll find out in just under a month.   Related: PS3mote Playstation 3 motion controller, Wiimote for the Playstation

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