Tag Archives: Microsoft

We look at how Relentless crafted the first Unity-authored Kinect game

Device uses Kinect camera to create illusion of users interfacing with 3D objects

Several projects already underway for new Microsoft system

Activision brings the worlds of toys and video games together with today’s release of Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure. This ambitious title lets players use special figurines to activate characters in game by placing them on the Portal of Power. These figures will then remember their progress, regardless of what platform they …

Microsoft has teamed up with Sky to promote Kinect Sports: Season Two. The sequel to the best selling Kinect game will sponsor the fourth season of Sky 1’s quiz panel show A League of Their Own, presented by Gavin & Stacey star James Corden. Microsoft’s director of Xbox and Entertainment …

System manufacturers 'are the rent guys who drive their partner margins to zero'

Microsoft has acquired Twisted Pixel, the Texas-based indie studio responsible for XBLA games such as Splosion Man. Financial terms of the buyout were not disclosed. Twisted Pixel will now incubate and develop the future of game and entertainment offerings on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 platform”, Microsoft said. The Austin-based studio will …

Splosion Man group 'will help drive innovation across Xbox Live and Kinect'

Microsoft is to release a high-capacity 320GB version of its Xbox 360 hard drive. The SKU will retail for 79.99 in the UK (and $129.99 in the US) and will replace the 250GB unit that currently retails for the same price. It will be compatible with the newer Xbox 360 …

A report has claimed that Microsoft is preparing a universal, cross-platform Xbox gaming platform similar in design to OnLive for launch in 2012. If true it would dismiss the ongoing whispers that Microsoft could snap-up the fledgling OnLive service and integrate into its own operations. ElectronicTheatre suggests that the new …