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Retailer GameStop has suggested that the latest cut-price Xbox One bundle is selling well. Microsoft’s 349/$399 SKU for the first time doesn’t include the Kinect 2.0 camera and as a result is 50/$100 cheaper than the bundle that does include Kinect. It went on sale on June 9th. "They went …

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Bungie has been able to increase the resolution of Destiny on Xbox One thanks to the dropping of Kinect. Microsoft confirmed last week that its recent move to make Kinect non-mandatory means that developers will now have the option of utilising GPU resources that were formally reserved for the peripheral …

Kinect-controlled music title Fantasia: Music Evolved has been given an Xbox One and Xbox 360 release date. Destructoid reveals that the game will arrive on October 21st. That’s likely a North American release date, so expect an October 24th arrival in the UK. That places it up against some stuff …

Owners of Kinect-less Xbox Ones will not enjoy a performance boost over those who choose to attach a camera to their machine. That’s the clarification from Microsoft, which was forced to issue a statement after some corners of the internet misinterpreted yesterday’s news of a GPU boost in the most …

The latest Xbox One development kits afford programmers in the region of ten per cent additional processing power. That’s because Microsoft’s decision to make Kinect an optional Xbox One peripheral has freed up processing time formerly required to be left aside for system operations associated wit the camera. The additional …

One UK retailer has already started selling Xbox One without Kinect. An official 350 Xbox One SKU without Kinect will be released on June 9th, but CEX has begun selling the console without the camera already. Shoppers can order an unboxed pre-owned machine for either 315 or 325 (we’re not …

Retailer GameStop reckons that consumers have started showing more interest in Xbox One since Microsoft announced a cut-price Kinect-less SKU is on the way. Microsoft confirmed earlier this month that it would slash 50 off the price of the current hardware with a new 350 bundle that doesn’t include the …

Microsoft even toyed with the idea of building the Kinect into the Xbox One itself, Xbox One hardware designerCarl Ledbetter has said. That would have made it a permanent, non-removable feature – and prevented the recent uncoupling of Kinect and console. We actually built models of that,” he said.We pushed …