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Bobby Kotick likes Kinect, but he does have one concern with it. For a boss famed for his sharp business sense and sharp attention to profits, can you imagine what that is? With Kinect – I love the idea, but Microsoft has got to get the price down,” he told …

Microsoft and Sky have confirmed that Sky Player offer an interesting array of compatibility features with the motion camera Kinect come its launch on November 10th. The service, which allows users to watch a range of Sky programming on their Xbox 360, will be fully controllable using both gesture and …

Microsoft has kicked off a nationwide competition allowing three winners to bring Kinect to their town or village. The ‘Kinect Comes To You’ competition will launch later this month on the Xbox 360 Kinect Facebook page. Participants can submit entries by writing on the page with their reasons why Kinect …

Mindscape and Universal Music have announced that Dance Paradise will go on sale as Kinect launches on November 10th. The new game will go up against rival Kinect motion-sensing dance titles at launch including Microsoft’s Dance Central and Konami’s Dance Evolution. Dance Paradise includes 40 hip hop, pop and dance …

An un-named development source has allegedly told Kotaku that Project Milo has been shut down. Milo was the first piece of Kinect (then Natal) software to be publicly demonstrated by Microsoft and remains one of the most fascinating titles in development for the platform. However, these fresh reports claim that …

The US arm of retailer Best Buy is to increase the shelf space it gives to video games by cutting the allocation granted to DVDs and CDs. Daily Finance reports that the extra footage will be used to maximise sales of new launches such as PlayStation Move and Kinect, as …

The Xbox 360 Kinect will outsell Apple’s highly successful iPad – that’s the claim being made by Microsoft at the Tokyo Game Show. The pre-orders have been really strong,” official Kinect spokesperson Kudo Tsunoda told Gamasutra. As far as what we’re looking at for holiday, this is going to be …

Xbox 360 motion camera Kinect will sell over 3m units this holiday period following its launch this November, platform holder Microsoft has claimed. Our estimates that we will sell in excess of 3m units this holiday,” Microsoft Xbox product director Aaron Greenberg told Gamasutra. Our key indicators are feedback from …

Microsoft has announced the Kinect iteration of Brain Training will hit Europe in Q1 2011. During the platform holder’s keynote speech at this year’s Tokyo Games Show, Xbox Japan’s general manager Takashi Sensui revealed that the title will be released in North America and Europe early next year”. He also …

It has been a difficult period for the UK games market. Toys R Us, Argos and HMV have all blamed the ‘weak’ games sector for a tough summer of sales, while last week the UK games market suffered its worst seven days of sales since May 2006 – before the …