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The trade will be treated to a good old fashioned format war next week when Sony steps into the motion controller ring – toe-to-toe with Nintendo, and two months before Microsoft’s Kinect debuts. It’s been a long time coming. For ages the Wii’s controller has been its unchallenged point of …

A new site hosted by iconic Sony marketer Kevin Butler has dished out a number of comical digs to rival motion systems Wii and, in particular Kinect. Called Move vs Stuff, the site’s front page carries a chart (pictured in full below) pointing out that PlayStation move includes a number …

Microsoft has confirmed a new game from Dr Kawashima will be available when Kinect launches in Japan on November 20th. The game will be published by Namco Bandai, and is currently titled Lead: New Brain Training Where You Answer With Your Body. As you would expect, in-game exercises are overseen …

Microsoft has at last gone official on the bundle first spotted last month by revealing the 250GB version of its Xbox 360 Kinect hardware bundle. The SKU will include the high-capacity 250GB variant of the Xbox 360 S, a Kinect camera and a copy of Kinect Adventures. It will retail …

Competitors hoping to release alternatives to Kinect will find it very difficult to replicate the advances found in the software powering the device, Microsoft has stated. "I think what we’ve done with the software is something that’s really hard to pull off," Microsoft Game Studios’ head Kinect designer Kudo Tsunoda …

Kinect may be the pioneer of entirely controller-free games control, but there was a time in its development when both British developer Rare and Microsoft Game Studios boss Peter Molyneux were adamant” that some sort of physical controller was vital to its success. We went over to see Kinect – …

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Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has finally admitted that many countries will not enjoy voice recognition support for Kinect when the device arrives in Europe in November. In August MCV ran a story based on information given to it by Microsoft at Gamescom claiming that voice recognition would not be …

After Microsoft dismissed claims last month that Kinect would not support voice recognition at launch, claims have now surfaced that only three languages will be ready for the device’s November arrival. Eurogamer reports that users enrolled in the ongoing Kinect beta test have discovered that only English, Japanese and Mexican …

A subtle revamp of the Xbox interface will help Microsoft further its reach into mainstream and family audiences. At Gamescom last week, the firm was demoing the various ways its Kinect camera improves the interface – and told MCV it wants to make the experience ‘more fun for new users’. …