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Video games trade association UKIE has championed the role of UK developers in the early success of both Microsoft’s Kinect and Sony’s Move. In the ten weeks ending January 15th 2011, games made by UK developers account for 42 per cent of Kinect software sales in the UK. The best …

Ubisoft is Kinect’s most successful third-party publisher in EMEA, the company has told MCV. The publisher’s trio of Kinect games – Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, Motion Sports and Fighters Uncaged – has given the firm a 20 per cent market share on Microsoft’s motion controller. The news follows NPD’s US …

Virtua Tennis 4 will launch on Wii and Kinect, Sega has announced. The game was already announced for PlayStation 3 at Sony’s Gamescom press conference in August last year. It features PlayStation Move compatibility and 3D technology. The Wii edition will make use of the Wii MotionPlus. Virtua Tennis 4 …

Steve Ballmer has declared that the Xbox 360 has evolved beyond being just a games machine. The Microsoft boss told USA Today that the launch of Kinect – as well as various other social and media features – makes the device a family entertainment center”. Xbox isn’t a gaming console,” …

Source claims motion controller 'to be integrated into the XNA framework'

Microsoft’s motion controller launched with plenty of third-party support, but Ubisoft has claimed it is already the biggest third-party publisher on Kinect. The company released three titles at launch: Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, Motion Sports and Fighters Uncaged. Ubisoft believes this puts it far ahead of the competition and that …

As part of its NPD stat-fest last night, platform holder Microsoft has confirmed two notable sales victories for its motion sensing camera peripheral Kinect. Speaking on Twitter, chief of staff for Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business Aaron Greenberg confirmed that both Rare-developer Kinect Sports and Harmonix made dance game Dance Central …

Up-and-coming Israeli firm PrimeSense has received $50 milling in funding. The company created some of the technology behind Kinect, as well as other devices that scan users and react to their gestures. The funding came from US private equity firm Silver Lake, as well as PrimeSense’s existing investors: venture capital …

A popular German publisher will see a number of its games hit UK shelves via Koch Media. BitComposer’s PC games Wildlife Park 3 and Air Conflicts: Secret Wars (also coming to Kinect) will reach stores later this year. As a franchise Wildlife Park has sold over 500,000 units worldwide since the …

A compatibility software engineer has managed to port an image taken from Kinect into the PC world-building game Minecraft. Nathan Viniconis explained on his personal blog how developers could utilise depth camera on Kinect and repurpose the data as a full 3D object within Minecraft’s block-built environments. Viniconis’s day job …