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Richard Banks talks social engagement tech on Kinect, WP7 and the web

The general manager for Xbox in the UK has denied claims that his company is deliberately managing Kinect stock shortages in an effort to drum up hype in the key Christmas shopping season. The accusation was thrown at both Microsoft and Sony last week by US analyst Michael Pachter, who …

Perhaps deciding that it lacked the appetite for a cat-and-mouse style brawl over the hacking of its new line of Windows Phone 7 devices, Microsoft has come up with a novel way of deterring hackers from cracking its OS. Cnet reports that the platform holder has successfully convinced the creators …

Microsoft has said that it currently has around 12.5m paying subscribers to Xbox Live. Subscriptions to the service currently cost 40 a year in the UK. Of our 25m members, about half of them are subscribers to the business and pay us about $60 a year for that,” Microsoft’s head …

Users of Xbox Live are now able to register for the Xbox Live Rewards program, a new scheme that offers to dish out real Microsoft Points for free. It’s open to any Gold Members of the service who are registered in either the UK or US. Points will be awarded …

It’s the latest exercise craze sweeping the country, and 505 Games believes now is the perfect time to launch a Zumba video game. Zumba Fitness Party debuted on Xbox 360 Kinect last Friday (November 26th), and UK publisher 505 has teamed up with Zumba UK on a range of promotional …

Following the confirmation that Sony’s 4.1m ‘sales’ figure for Move released yesterday actually represents the number of units shipped to retail, analyst Michael Pachter has pegged actual sales numbers at 2.5m units. That, of course, is exactly the same as the Kinect sales number released by Microsoft earlier in the …

Namco Bandai Partners has announced that the first Kinect-compatible Dr Kawashima title will be released in the UK on February 11th. Dr Kawashima’s Body and Brain Exercises was announced in September, and was a launch title for Microsoft’s new motion controller in Japan. The game challenges players to solve puzzles …

With EA’s Shift 2 Unleashed pencilled in for a spring release, the lead designer of EA’s game has resumed the offensive launched against rival offerings Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport. Last week EA’s senior VP Patrick Soderlund stated: I think [in Gran Turismo Sony] has a very sterile, almost car …

Having previously questioned Kinect’s ability to pull-off the much hyped lightsaber game that will be released on Microsoft’s console next year, an SCE software engineer has once again gone on the offensive regarding Microsoft’s motion technology. "We’re not necessarily against Kinect or against depth cameras, it’s just we feel like …