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Microsoft has announced a number of extra changes that are on the way in the next Xbox 360 dashboard update due out on November 4th. Chief amongst the additions in a reworking of the codec powering voice chat. This will provide improved audio quality for those chatting with friends while …
Read More »You thought Kinect didnt need peripherals?
Kinect’s success in allowing users to play games with nothing other than their body is a remarkable technical achievement and a significant milestone in the history of gaming. So quite why you’d want to buy an inflatable boat to stand in as you do is, if MCV is being honest, …
Read More »Ubi claims three year R&D headstart on Kinect
Microsoft motion control tech backed by French studio
Read More »Epic confirms Gears of War 3 delay
Microsoftâ??s Xbox 360 shooter to miss April release in favour of an autumn 2011 arrival
Read More »Rare: Kinect will go beyond casual games
Kinect’s launch line-up provides no foretoken to the wild ideas that the peripheral will provide in the future, a tech executive at Rare believes. Nick Burton admitted that Kinect’s software launch line-up has an understandable air of predictability – with its sports and family titles – but insisted the tech …
Read More »Rare refutes Kinect ‘downgrade’ claims
Microsoft’s innovative controllerless peripheral, Kinect, has not been downgraded during its evolution from concept to final product, says an exec at UK studio Rare. In fact, Nick Burton believes Kinect has closely followed a survival-of-the-fittest principal; dropping less desired features and improving its more important ones. Kinect’s tech has certainly …
Read More »Rare: â??Kinect will go beyond sports & family gamesâ??
Kinect Sports studio says the device will kindle a wild fire of game ideas
Read More »Kinect downgraded? On the contrary, says Rare
An ongoing focus on key features has allowed the device to grow
Read More »MS: Kinect will break records
It has already claimed that Kinect will enjoy a stronger launch than Xbox 360 and that it will blow away” the iPad. Now Microsoft has claimed that Kinect is going to be the biggest ever hardware sales launch ever. We are investing in this like we’ve never invested in a …
Read More »Kinect is for games we cant even imagine
It’s something of a chicken and egg thing”. That’s the challenge that Microsoft faces with the Kinect motion camera, according to EA’s European senior VP Jens Uwe Intat. Specifically, the exec thinks that relying on conversation of existing IP and game types to push the appeal of Kinect is a …
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