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Microsoft has confirmed that Kinect will launch at retail this year in November. The controllerless input device – previously known as Natal – was given its final moniker at a dazzling pre-E3 event. No price or further SKU details were announced. Those details are reserved for tomorrow, where Microsoft will …

A flurry of web reports and leaks tonight have confirmed that Microsoft has renamed Natal to Kinect – and that it will unveil a redesigned 360 at E3 this week. Earlier this evening an Italian ad on a consumer games site outed the new look 360 (pictured) and claimed the …

And the news just keeps tumbling out about Microsoft’s Kinect. While as we post this Microsoft execs and half the industry is milling into the LA Galen Center to see the format-holder’s Cirque du Soleil spectacular unveiling the device, details about the device keep leaking out. The latest report claims …

Microsoft is developing Kinect games that make use of Star Wars and Disney characters, according to the USA Today. As part of the paper’s story detailing the name and games for the new Microsoft game controller – hours before the official unveiling – the report also outs key support from …

Microsoft’s new game controller Kinect could steal the show at E3 this week – and the firm couldn’t have done it without Nintendo. Microsoft’s device uses 3D cameras to remove the need for physical controllers. The name, previously Project Natal, was unveiled this evening by leaked online ads and reports …

Microsoft’s Project Natal seems to be definitely called Kinect. That’s according to a new report in USA Today’s Game Hunters column – the latest edition of which has moments ago gone live, confirming the leaked out name for the device plus a raft of games. Kinect as it is now …

Games starring 'favourite' characters heading to Microsoft motion-sensor

An Italian only ad has outed the new slim-line Xbox 360 and given away the final name of motion-sensor controller Natal. That’s what bloggers are saying tonight – just hours before Microsoft is poised to begin a 24 hour no-expenses-spared hoopla to promote its new devices and kick-off E3. A …

Italian ad touts potential peripheral name and new-look 360 console hardware. But is it genuine?

Within the next 48 hours all three home console platform holders will have shot their E3 load in their anticipated LA press briefings – and MCV will be offering live coverage of each and every one. What should you expect? Well, there’s a brand new handheld from Nintendo, some killer …