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Leading retailers are planning special Kinect charts and in-store demo areas to celebrate the peripheral’s arrival next week – despite a complete sell-out nationwide. GAME has already been running Kinect evenings in many of its stores, which the firm says have given it an edge over its rivals. What I …

Publishers MTV and Microsoft have recalled all copies of Kinect title Dance Central in North America. The reason? An unspecified misprint in the owner’s manual”. Microsoft has become aware that an update that needs to be made to the product manual (i.e. printed materials) included in the game entitled Dance …

Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has admitted that the review scores for some of its Kinect launch titles are unlikely to match the adulation given to the likes of Halo Reach – but that it won’t affect their performance at retail. For us, these are different types of titles and …

The worldwide install base of PS3 is now just 5.4m units behind that of Xbox 360, according to the latest numbers from Sony and Microsoft. Eurogamer reports that total PS3 console sales now stand at 39.2m units. Xbox 360 retains a narrow lead for the time being with sales of …

Aaron Greenberg, the product director for Microsoft in the US, has described the PlayStation Move controller as a great product” but claimed that Kinect will open up the Xbox 360 to a whole new market in a way that Sony’s device will not. First off, it’s a great product and …

A report by the International Data Corporation has pointed to a possible sales win for Xbox 360 Kinect over PS3 Move over the next six months. PC World reports that the report estimates that the total install base for Kinect over the next six months amongst 25-44 year olds will …

The first day’s stock is all gone, but Microsoft says Kinect won’t be in short supply too much in the following weeks. Speaking to MCV this week Xbox’s GM for UK & Ireland Neil Thompson said a ‘healthy’ amount of Kinect stock is heading to the UK for week one. …

The new manager of Microsoft owned UK developer Rare has told MCV that the progress made in Kinect game development over recent months points to an amazing future for the device as studios continue to discover new ways to implement the technology. Rare has actually developed quite a bit of …

The cost and turbulence caused by the transition to a new generation of hardware is not what the games industry currently needs, according to THQ president and CEO Brian Farrell. Instead, the exec thinks that expanding the current console audience through expansions such as Kinect and Move is very much …

Microsoft has revealed that experienced company man Scott Henson has become the new studio manager of owned UK developer Rare. Henson takes charge immediately and expects to complete a move with his family to Birmingham in the next few weeks. Over his 16 years with Microsoft he has played a …