Even after stating they weren't going to speculate, Microsoft's price point for their motion control camera came in right where retailers expected it to: $150.
Continue reading...Sunday, June 13, 2010
Natal is no more. As rumored, the device has been renamed from its codename to Kinect.
Continue reading...Friday, March 12, 2010
After the PlayStation motion controller, dubbed “The Move,” was announced, EA also stated the upcoming entry in the long running Tiger Woods PGA franchise would support the motion device. For the latest Microsoft entry in the motion control battle, Natal, Tiger is staying bound to a controller. EA has stated to Joystiq that they are [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 5, 2009
Just a quick note before getting to the news part of this post: Motion controls need to die. Now. That is all. Anyway, Microsoft’s attempt to create motion controls has a quirk: it takes a lot of work to implement. While currently released 360 games have been programmed with the new code to showcase the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 2, 2009
Next time you say “casual gaming doesn’t affect me,” you might want to think again. Slowly but surely, this motion control stuff is seeping into the very being of the core gaming experience. Over dramatic? Yeah, quite a bit, but when Halo may be implementing needless motion controls, we have a problem. So yes, in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Natal was a huge announcement for Microsoft at E3. So big, they stated it would be like the launch of the Xbox 360. Well, maybe that was misstated, because 1up states that it will be a new console. It’s all a rumor for now, but they claim it won’t be a re-release of the 360, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Can we please stop trying to sell game consoles to mom? At their E3 press conference, Microsoft unveiled Project Natal, an extension of the camera concept used in the EyeToy and apparently forgotten Xbox Live Vision Camera. The idea, that of a face scanning, voice recognizing, motion sensing camera, has some logical applications. Signing into [...]
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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