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A number of sources from the video game industry have told Kotaku that the codename for the next Xbox home console project from Microsoft is Durango. It also seems that the company will soon make the codename public and will refer for the platform as such before it settles on an actual name that it will use for the ... |
17 February 2012
02:35 GMT |
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Having just announced what the future holds for Project Natal, now Kinect for Xbox 360, Microsoft is already hard at work building unique, new experiences with the controller-free NUI device at the core. The Redmond company has inked an agreement with Chevrolet for the multiscreen advertising campaign that will allow... |
22 June 2010
06:53 GMT |
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Microsoft, during a rather lavish event, which featured a performance from Cirque Du Soleil built around gaming hardware and the way it can bring a family together, has announced that the official name for its motion project peripheral is Kinect, a combination of “connect” and “kinetic” design... |
14 June 2010
03:00 GMT |
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Innovation will be the name of the game for the videogame industry in the coming years, according to Peter Molyneux, the legendary designer who is in charge of Lionhead studios and currently working on Fable III. He believes the avalanche of new concepts and technologies that are coming to the fore at the same time w... |
9 June 2010
13:31 GMT |
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PlayStation Move from Sony and Project Natal from Microsoft will be two of the most hyped up devices at the upcoming E3 trade show, both companies hoping that the motion tracking peripherals will allow them to catch up with the Nintendo Wii in terms of market share. And all videogame developers, regardless of their p... |
9 June 2010
05:20 GMT |
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This week has been dominated, here at Softpedia, by the launch of Alpha Protocol, a game we have reviewed and dedicated several gameplay diaries to. This edition's Weekend Reading piece is also using the new Obsidian role playing game as a jump off point for a discussion about innovation in gaming and the title ... |
6 June 2010
03:11 GMT |
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It has been rumored that Sega will be announcing at E3 a Project Natal compatible game, entitled Sonic Free Riders. It will be a motion controlled Sonic racer available on Xbox Live Arcade. Nothing has been confirmed either by Sega or Microsoft yet, so there are no details about the launch date and pricing.The rumor ... |
4 June 2010
14:21 GMT |
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The latest Rock Band title, based around the career of the punk rock band Green Day, is set to be launched next week for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360, and we already know that a new full installment in the music simulation series is in the works at developer Harmonix and partner MTV Games.But with the overall m... |
4 June 2010
03:53 GMT |
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Up until now, most of the talk about the motion tracking Project Natal has been coming from Microsoft and directed at gamers who own an Xbox 360 or are interested in picking up one in the coming year. But it's also nice to see how a more casual crowd reacts when exposed to the gesture-based control scheme and if... |
3 June 2010
05:12 GMT |
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One of the first games to support Microsoft's Project Natal has been announced by Crave Games. Brunswick Pro Bowling for the Xbox 360 will use Natal as the main form of control and will be adapted from the PlayStation 3 version that employs PlayStation Move. There are three other versions of the game currently a... |
31 May 2010
04:21 GMT |
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News has already broken that Robbie Bach, one of the point men at Microsoft dealing with the Xbox 360 and its future, will be leaving the company in order to spend more time with his family. But the executive still has some thoughts about the platform and how it will perform in the second half of 2010 and beyond, whi... |
28 May 2010
13:31 GMT |
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A source that has access to internal Microsoft data claims the Project Natal motion tracking system for the Xbox 360 will be launched with a price tag of 149 dollars in North America. A bundle option will also be offered with the new device attached to the Xbox 360 Arcade home console for the price of 299 dollars.App... |
27 May 2010
05:36 GMT |
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Images taken from a variety of online retail outlets in Sweden suggested that they were ready to take preorders for the motion tracking Project Natal from Microsoft and shocked a few gamers by adding a pretty high price tag to the new device, which is set to be officially launched at some point during the fall of thi... |
18 May 2010
05:02 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting ready to kick up a notch the interaction model associated with Xbox 360 consoles through what the company is calling a natural user interface. Mid-June 2010 will bring with it the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2010 (E3 Expo 2010), but also the World Premiere of Project Natal. And for the World Pr... |
17 May 2010
07:53 GMT |
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Sales of home consoles seem to be slowing down, as shown by the NPD Group numbers for the North American market, despite the fact that Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have bought down the prices of their devices. And with the manufacturers saying that the current Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 will have a ten year life cycl... |
17 May 2010
02:58 GMT |
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It has been a week of announcements and speculations, and you can take a look at the most important pieces of news in our selection below. And if you would like to read some more, you can take a look at the Weekend Reading piece on Bungie and the future, and the EndWeekGame article tackling Command & Conquer 4 and Ne... |
16 May 2010
10:21 GMT |
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It's not too often that we hear videogaming news coming from the Middle East, one of the emerging markets for the industry. But one Microsoft executive hailing for Saudi Arabia has pretty much confirmed that the Project Natal motion tracking system for the Xbox 360 home console will be launched world wide during... |
11 May 2010
18:11 GMT |
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Project Natal, Microsoft’s motion tracking solution that does not use any form of handheld controller, is set to be launched at some point during the fall of this year and the software giant is planning a big event on June 13 during which it will talk about the videogames that will accompany it. But until then,... |
28 April 2010
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We already know that Halo: Reach will include four interesting multiplayer modes when the beta comes on May 3 and that Bungie is ready to welcome more than 3 million players from around the world to the game, hoping that they will be offering significant feedback linked to the experience, which can be used to improve... |
22 April 2010
14:41 GMT |
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We already know that Project Natal, the motion tracking solution from Microsoft, which does not use a controller at all, is set to arrive at some point during the fall but until now, we knew close to nothing about the videogames the software giant plans to launch at the same time as the hardware. Milo is connected to... |
20 April 2010
16:41 GMT |
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Could another batch of console price cuts be in the early stages of preparation at both Microsoft and Sony? After all, both companies made it easier for interested customers to pick up the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 in late 2009, with Sony even putting out a new Slim model for the PS3. Some blame the price cuts f... |
15 April 2010
05:13 GMT |
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Come the 2010 holiday season, Xbox 360 will evolve with the introduction of a new interaction paradigm, originally unveiled almost a year ago at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. Project Natal is a step further in Microsoft’s vision of associating natural user interfaces with its software a... |
1 April 2010
05:39 GMT |
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Motion tracking is all the rage at the moment, with both Sony and Microsoft gearing up for the fall launch season with very different solutions that aim to attract as many of those fascinated by the capabilities of the Nintendo Wii as possible. The latter is betting big on Project Natal, which is built around camera ... |
31 March 2010
05:52 GMT |
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The big showdown of the fall will happen between Project Natal from Microsoft and the PlayStation Move from Sony, the two motion tracking peripherals set to come out around the same date and then help the two companies take away some customers from the home console that already has those capabilities, the Nintendo Wi... |
22 March 2010
17:31 GMT |
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Sony has officially named its motion controller the PlayStation Move and the release date is still set for the fall of 2010, in time for the holidays, with support coming in the form of SOCOM 4 and a host of more casual titles.Microsoft has for some time said that Project Natal is also coming during the fall, with Fa... |
16 March 2010
09:17 GMT |
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With Microsoft's Project Natal and with Sony's motion tracking controller arriving pretty much at some point during the fall, it's more important than ever to get the details right. And Sony might have been officially referring to its new console add-on as the “Sony Motion Controller” offic... |
4 March 2010
03:37 GMT |
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It might be quite some time before we see a new generation of home gaming consoles in action. From the moment the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony were launched, it was clear that the current devices cost a lot to be developed and that the companies making them intend to sell them for a long ti... |
25 February 2010
13:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has been talking about Project Natal, the motion tracking solution it plans to deliver during the fall for its Xbox 360 home gaming console, as being the next natural evolution of videgaming. There are even some who are saying that the release of Natal and the motion tracking system from Sony (which might b... |
23 February 2010
14:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is aiming to make 2010 a banner year for its Xbox 360 home console, holding back a renewed assault from the PlayStation 3 from Sony while also possibly closing in to the console sales number one position currently held by the Nintendo Wii. And with a good beginning of the year reflected in the NPD Group num... |
16 February 2010
13:31 GMT |
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While it may be expected from other major companies and publishers to support the arrival of the upcoming motion controller, Project Natal, Microsoft doesn't plan on leaving all the cards in someone else's hands. The company plans on bringing at least one of its own "large franchises" over to the Natal libr... |
16 February 2010
06:03 GMT |
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French publisher Ubisoft has announced a decrease in sales for the quarter, which encompasses the October - December 2009 period, despite the huge success of Assassin's Creed II that managed to move more than 8 million units to gamers. The company generated sales of about 678.9 million dollars, which is 2.7... |
12 February 2010
02:53 GMT |
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While Nintendo showed little interest in the early concepts of Natal, dismissing it as a possible future investment, the current version of Microsoft's "hands-free controller" has Lionhead's boss in pure ecstasy. Responsible for the Black and White and Fable series, the studio, and mainly its leader, Peter ... |
8 February 2010
05:30 GMT |
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Microsoft has had a very good second fiscal quarter, for the period that ended on December 31, 2009, seeing profits go up to 6.7 billion dollars from 4.2, while overall revenue went from 16.7 to 19 billion dollars. And one of the main contributors to this increase, behind the success of the new Windows 7 operating sy... |
1 February 2010
04:26 GMT |
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Project Natal might be the next huge thing to come from Microsoft, but it could have been just an improvement made to the Wii. Apparently, Natal's technology was showcased by 3DV Systems to Nintendo in a short tech demo back in 2007, but the company didn't think the idea was feasible enough for commercializ... |
27 January 2010
04:45 GMT |
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How much is a gamer prepared to spend in order to control their console using something other than a standard controller? This is one of the questions a lot of people are pondering, with 2010 set to be the year when the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 join the Nintendo Wii as motion control enabled.Ubisoft has already... |
21 January 2010
08:42 GMT |
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It seems that after talking about the Sony motion tracking wand as being a spring 2010 release for quite some time, the Japanese console manufacturer has actually decided to push the release date back to the fall of this year, mainly as a way of making sure that the device has a wide array of videogames ready for it ... |
20 January 2010
04:27 GMT |
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With the NPD Group hardware and software charts released at the end of last week, all the major gaming companies have sprung into action to emphasize their successes and downplay those of their rivals. Microsoft, the maker of the Xbox 360, is saying that the install base of the Xbox 360 has reached 39 million units w... |
18 January 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Project Natal was the indisputable videogaming star of the recent Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in Las Vegas. Microsoft finally confirmed a holiday 2010 release window and offered a few more pieces of information on the device. And the big piece of news is that Project Natal will no longer have the dedicated chip in... |
16 January 2010
11:21 GMT |
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Sony has long maintained that the PlayStation 3, like its predecessor PS2, has a ten-year life cycle but until now Microsoft has not made any clear comments on that of the Xbox 360. Now, it seems the company is also interested in keeping its console on the market as long as possible.David Hufford, who is the senior d... |
12 January 2010
16:31 GMT |
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It seems that Netflix is getting closer and closer to entering into an agreement with Nintendo to bring its instant streaming service to the gaming consoles the company produces.During a Question & Answer session, which took place at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Reed Hastings, the Chief Executive Offic... |
12 January 2010
03:24 GMT |
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We've become accustomed to the way Peter Molyneux, the head of developer studio Lionhead, hypes up his games and enthuses about how revolutionary they will be. But let's hope that the people working for him do not share the same tendency because their latest announcement is very interesting for those who li... |
11 January 2010
18:11 GMT |
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At the first few demos of its motion control system, called Project Natal, Microsoft made a big deal out of the fact that current videogames, like Burnout, were completely controllable through the new peripheral.Players could accelerate, brake and turn without holding any controllers in their hands and the lag was sa... |
11 January 2010
09:23 GMT |
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It's been the first full week of 2010 and already the year in videogaming is in full swing. We have a Weekend Reading piece about how this year might actually mark the end of some successful franchises and game models, an EndGameWeek column and a lot of news from the last seven days.On Monday, we talked about th... |
10 January 2010
10:51 GMT |
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After getting a official word from the management, Project Natal's launch has been announced as coming before Christmas, and with this, more details have started flowing. Most of them come from the CES 2010, and some are more interesting than others. New Scientist has been awarded the honor of an actual demonstr... |
8 January 2010
08:38 GMT |
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was probably the biggest PlayStation 3 exclusive release of 2009 and the game that actually helped the new Slim version of the home gaming console sell a lot of units during the Christmas shopping season and gamers are certainly waiting to hear about how the development team at Naughty Dog ... |
7 January 2010
17:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed that Project Natal, its motion tracking solution, will be available to gamers during the holiday season of 2010. The news came as part of the press conference that took place in Las Vegas, at the Consumer Electronics Show, which also included the reveal of a fresh social space and gaming servi... |
7 January 2010
08:14 GMT |
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A decade after the first Xbox devices hit store shelves, Microsoft is gearing up to revolutionize the gaming experience by offering console owners a new interaction model based on NUI (natural user interface). At the 2010 Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the Redmond company indicated that Project Natal would ... |
7 January 2010
07:49 GMT |
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While the computer interface hasn't evolved very much in the last two or three decades, the last few years have seen a lot of huge leaps in technological progress. Mouse and keyboards have seen mostly only aesthetic modifications since their early days, just like gamepads and joysticks did, but a brand new gener... |
5 January 2010
13:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has filled a patent for something called “Avatar Individualized By Physical Characteristics,” which aims to create an image of the gamer that could then be used in most videogames and in other activities linked to the Xbox 360 and to Live, but with the added twist of creating virtual personas as... |
28 December 2009
03:23 GMT |
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2010 is set to be a year dominated by a battle between Project Natal and the Sony wand, as Microsoft and Sony will battle in motion control solutions as they try to take away one of the competitive advantages of the Nintendo Wii. And it seems that the Natal concept might still have some issues, even if final versions... |
22 December 2009
08:34 GMT |
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