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Who better an interview subject for a piece looking at the rise and rise of Xbox than its new UK director of retail sales and marketing Jonathan Grimes? Like the venerable box itself, which rose in people’s estimations over the brand’s history, Grimes has climbed the ranks of Microsoft. Taking …

In celebration of its first birthday in Japan, Famitsu has published firm Japanese sales data for Xbox 360 motion camera Kinect. And the truth is the numbers aren’t very good. In total the device has sold 114k at Japanese retail. That represents fewer than one in ten Xbox 360 owners …

Microsoft’s second generation of Kinect hardware is so accurate that it is able to read the lips and interpret the facial emotions of users. That’s according to details from Eurogamer, which has gone live with a host of revelations about Microsoft’s future plans. It says that Kinect 2 will come …

New motion sensor 'able to detect emotions through voice and facial expression'

Some of the biggest technology companies in the world have today thrown their weight behind a renewed campaign to bring computer science back into UK schools. Google and Microsoft have joined a vast new alliance of technology groups that call on Britain’s government to put an end to the so-called …

Xbox UK’s new retail sales and marketing boss says the 360 has a lot more mileage left in it. In fact Jonathan Grimes tells MCV in an interview this week he won’t be happy until every household has an Xbox. There’s definitely a lot more to achieve,” he offered as …

Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has responded to the latest claims from UK newspaper The Sun, insisting for a second time that Xbox Live has most certainly not been hacked. The assurance comes despite ongoing claims from The Sun that users have not succumb merely to a phishing scam. Indeed, …

Kinect may be a more familiar fixture in the headlines, but a new report suggests that PlayStation Move may be steadily closing the sales gap. In fact, IndustryGamers reckons that Move is no only around a million units behind Kinect, which has sold 10m worldwide according to Microsoft’s most recent …

Range of improvements to Windows edition of the tech

Having enjoyed success on Xbox 360, Microsoft is to take Kinect to the next stage of its development with a Windows-specific version of the hardware – as well as a potential improvement to the Xbox 360 product. The company had already announced a suite of PC development tools for the …