Tag Archives: xbox 360

E3 2010: Double-SKU for Xbox Kinect?

And the news just keeps tumbling out about Microsoft’s Kinect. While as we post this Microsoft execs and half the industry is milling into the LA Galen Center to see the format-holder’s Cirque du Soleil spectacular unveiling the device, details about the device keep leaking out. The latest report claims …

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E3 2010: Lightsaber game for Kinect

Microsoft is developing Kinect games that make use of Star Wars and Disney characters, according to the USA Today. As part of the paper’s story detailing the name and games for the new Microsoft game controller – hours before the official unveiling – the report also outs key support from …

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E3 2010: Nintendo ‘set things in motion’ for Kinect

Microsoft’s new game controller Kinect could steal the show at E3 this week – and the firm couldn’t have done it without Nintendo. Microsoft’s device uses 3D cameras to remove the need for physical controllers. The name, previously Project Natal, was unveiled this evening by leaked online ads and reports …

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E3 2010: USA Today confirms Kinect name

Microsoft’s Project Natal seems to be definitely called Kinect. That’s according to a new report in USA Today’s Game Hunters column – the latest edition of which has moments ago gone live, confirming the leaked out name for the device plus a raft of games. Kinect as it is now …

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E3 2010: Xbox ‘Kinect’ leaked by ad

An Italian only ad has outed the new slim-line Xbox 360 and given away the final name of motion-sensor controller Natal. That’s what bloggers are saying tonight – just hours before Microsoft is poised to begin a 24 hour no-expenses-spared hoopla to promote its new devices and kick-off E3. A …

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E3 2010: MS to ‘top Natal announcement’

We’d begun to worry that this year’s E3 might not deliver the kind of big surprises we saw at the 2009 event – but Microsoft reckons it has something big up it sleeve. In an email to registered members of Xbox.com, the platform holder states: E3 is the world’s largest …

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Deep Silver has the X Factor

The publisher of the X Factor game unveiled by MCV last week has been named – it’s Koch Media. After a no-doubt grueling round of auditions and pitches, Koch’s Deep Silver publishing label has met the approval of brand owner FremantleMedia, Simon Cowell’s production firm SyCo and, we assume, fellow …

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E3 2010: True Crime: Hong Kong named

Publisher Activision has officially named the third instalment in its GTA-like free-roaming action series – True Crime: Hong Kong. It’s the first time the IP has ventured from America, with the 2003 original taking place in LA and the 2005 sequel sticking to New York. This third outing is said …

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