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The developers at EA Sports have revealed yet another trailer for the upcoming Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 golf simulation, offering details on the new Legacy Mode, which is designed to allow players to inhabit the persona of the series protagonist starting with early childhood.
The new golf game is set to get an improv... |
9 February 2012
02:27 GMT |
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The Kinect motion tracking system for the Xbox 360 home console has been a success for Microsoft when it comes to sales, but one leading video games developer believes that companies are still struggling with creating tailor-made experiences for it.
Tim Schafer, who is the leader of development at Double Fine, told ... |
1 February 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is a first-person shooter that will use the Kinect motion tracking tech from Microsoft for some game features, although it will not be introducing it to the core gameplay mechanics.
And Adrian Lacey, who is the intellectual property director working on Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, told Sp... |
27 January 2012
07:07 GMT |
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Video game publisher SEGA has released new information about the upcoming London 2012 – The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games, including a slew of new screenshots that detail the kind of events that players will be able to take part in.The big news is that motion control, meaning both the Kinect for the ... |
17 January 2012
10:43 GMT |
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Sorcery, one of the few upcoming high profile releases to make full use of the PlayStation Move motion tracking system, will be aimed at a hardcore audience and will deliver an experience that the Microsoft made Kinect or the Wii cannot support.Brian Upton, who is the creative director working on Sorcery, told Indust... |
19 December 2011
02:52 GMT |
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Skyward Sword, the most recent Nintendo Wii video game using Link as the main character, made full use of the motion control offered by the platform and one of the main designers working on the game believes that buttons cannot regain their place as the main control method for the series.Eiji Aonuma, who is a produce... |
14 December 2011
10:17 GMT |
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According to sales figures that were compiled by Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu the Kinect motion tracking system, which has managed to sell more than 10 million units all over the world, performed worse than Microsoft expected in the Land of the Rising Sun, moving less than 3,333 in October of this year.When the d... |
30 November 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Rumors can be strange creatures, so if they can start saying, whenever they want, that technology has advanced enough to know what you do with this or that part of your body. In this case, rumors say that Kinect 2 will know how to interpret what your mouth does. At least, it will be able to carry out lip reading ... |
28 November 2011
11:09 GMT |
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Video game publisher Microsoft and developer Rare have announced that they have launched the Challenge Pack #1 content update for Kinect Sports: Season Two, the game which is supposed to highlight the potential of the Kinect motion tracking system for the Xbox 360 home console.The new content is being sponsored by Br... |
9 November 2011
09:01 GMT |
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Kinect has been a big success for Microsoft since it launched during the fall of last year, with the company reporting that it has managed to sell more than 10 million pieces of hardware and the same number of video games for it before the beginning of the June.But the motion tracking hardware has not yet had a &ldqu... |
18 August 2011
08:52 GMT |
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Impulse Technology, a company based in Ohio, has filed a lawsuit against software giant and Kinect developer Microsoft, saying that the company is in breach of no less than seven of its patents that are linked to how the movement of a player is tracked in order to be translated into inputs for video games. The paten... |
25 July 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer and video game publisher Microsoft seems to be always interested in finding new uses for its Kinect motion tracking system and a new trademark, called NUADS, seems to be aimed at delivering a new kind of advertising to gamers via the hardware.The description for the new trademark talks a... |
14 June 2011
09:27 GMT |
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The video game division at software giant Microsoft is apparently keen on making the Kinect motion tracking system the central element for all the video games that it will develop in the coming years, making it part of all the titles that will be launched in the coming years.Phil Spencer, who is the leader of the Mic... |
13 June 2011
17:21 GMT |
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The Kinect motion tracking system for the Xbox 360 home gaming console has been launched in November of last year and so far sales of the new device have managed to be better than the most optimistic expectations from Microsoft. And now the company seems to be prepared to push the new device even further, with Eurog... |
17 May 2011
18:31 GMT |
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Beijing Eedoo Technology, a company that is doing hardware development in China and is funded by Lenovo, one of the biggest computer and notebook manufacturers, has offered some details on the iSec, a new gaming device which will initially be released in China and might then arrive on other markets.
The full name ... |
9 May 2011
16:21 GMT |
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A lot of rumors have been appearing lately about the rumored successor for the Nintendo Wii, which a French website 01net has dubbed Project Cafe, and, even though the project is not yet announced, analysts have begun speculating about it as if it was.
Jessie Divnich, who is an analyst for EEDAR, has said that, &l... |
21 April 2011
18:51 GMT |
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With more and more rumored information spilling out about the Nintendo Wii 2, both Sony and Microsoft are expected to react with at least announcements about their new home console projects, but it seems that gamers might have to wait a few more years before the appearance of new hardware.
One inside source that h... |
21 April 2011
17:41 GMT |
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The last few weeks have been flooded with rumors linked to the follow-up to the Nintendo Wii home console, about which analysts and players are expecting to hear an announcement before the end of the year, possibly at the E3 trade show.
Now a site in France, called 01net, which is to be trusted because it managed ... |
19 April 2011
04:46 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer and video game publisher Microsoft has announced that it has extended the possibilities of the Kinect motion tracking system, allowing those who have it to use gestures and vocal commands to control a host of options in the Netflix movie delivery service integrated in Xbox Live.
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15 April 2011
02:54 GMT |
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The Microsoft Research website says that the upcoming PC based Software Development Kit for the Kinect motion tracking system will include access to a number of advanced features, like tracking of the entire skeleton structure of the gamer and use of the included directional microphone.The information says that devel... |
14 April 2011
13:41 GMT |
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The move to adapt the Kinect motion tracking system for the Xbox 360 for uses outside of the gaming world continue as one hospital in the Toronto area has managed to make the device a tool for surgeons, who are now able to use it in order to call up and manipulate complex images while they are in surgery.
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18 March 2011
11:00 GMT |
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Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has announced that it is developing and publishing a new video game for the Kinect motion tracking system, called Wipeout in the Zone and based on the very popular television show that airs of ABC.
The game is coming exclusively to the Xbox 360 at some point during the slow... |
17 March 2011
17:21 GMT |
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A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota has announced that it has found a novel new way of using the Kinect motion-tracking system from Microsoft to measure a range of disorder symptoms in children, creating a more objective way of evaluating them in order to detect problems like autism, attention defi... |
15 March 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Both Microsoft and Sony launched motion tracking controller in 2010, in the form of the Kinect and the PlayStation Move, but Nintendo says that competition is welcome and that the company will show the strength of its own solution with the release of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
Speaking in a wide ranging i... |
10 March 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has made headlines because the company talked about the PC gaming space as being the most promising one for the coming year, with a lot of growth potential and the possibility of becoming more important than the PlayStation 3, the Wii and the Xbox 360 combined.
But Frank Gibeau, who is the presiden... |
10 March 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced that at some point during the spring it will be releaseing a Software Development Kit for its Kinect motion tracking system that will allow the device to be used with PCs that use the Windows operating system from the company.The news was delivered by Don Mattrick, who is the president of the ... |
22 February 2011
04:31 GMT |
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A new rumor, accompanied by a screenshot, suggests that Microsoft is getting ready to push its Kinect motion tracking system to more hardcore spaces by delivering an experience that uses it and is set in the very popular Gears of War universe.
Sources have told Kotaku that the long-rumored Kinect powered Gears of ... |
9 February 2011
06:28 GMT |
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Despite not making an official announcement it seems that hardware developer and video game publisher Sony is aiming to launch its PlayStation Move motion tracking device on the PC, with full support for those developers that will integrate it into their games and for those modders who want to find new uses for it.
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3 February 2011
04:18 GMT |
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Nintendo is preparing to launch the new 3DS handheld in late February, but it seems that the company might have some problems this year in the home console space, where there's no sign that it is working to launch a new version of the Wii.Speaking to IndustryGamers, Michael Pachter, who is the best known analyst... |
27 January 2011
14:51 GMT |
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Razer, the maker of gaming-oriented peripherals for the PC, and Valve, the developers of well-known PC games like Portal and Half Life, have announced that they are collaborating to deliver specially created Portal 2 levels that will be used to showcase the possibilities included in the Hydra controllers.
The Hydr... |
11 January 2011
09:29 GMT |
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Speaking at the keynote that it has held at the Consumer Electronic Show, Microsoft representatives have announced that worldwide sales of the Xbox 360 home gaming consoles have gone over the 50 million units mark, largely powered by the price cuts the device has seen in the last year and by the launch of the new ver... |
7 January 2011
14:41 GMT |
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PrimeSense, the Israel based technology company that developed the Project Natal motion tracking concept, which has been turned into the Kinect for the Xbox 360, has announced that it has teamed up with Asus, one of the leaders in PC manufacturing worldwide, to deliver a device for the personal computing space. It al... |
4 January 2011
03:06 GMT |
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An anonymous source working in the video game industry has suggested that developer Microsoft is working on improving the accuracy for Kinect, the motion tracking add-on for the Xbox 360 that was released in early November of this year.
It seems that the engineers at Microsoft who have created Kinect are working h... |
22 December 2010
02:52 GMT |
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A leading Sony executive has said that the marketing campaign for the Microsoft-made Kinect motion tracking system has not overshadowed the promotional efforts his own company devoted to the PlayStation Move device and that the substance of the devices and not the hype from marketing will determine the future of the ... |
15 December 2010
13:41 GMT |
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The NPD Group, which tracks hardware, software and accessories sales in North America, has released its charts for November, showing that the Nintendo DS is still the best selling gaming device for the month while the Xbox 360 from Microsoft continues to lead in the home console battle. Overall the video game indust... |
10 December 2010
05:08 GMT |
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A high profile Microsoft executive has stated that the company is not creating any sort of artificial scarcity for its Kinect motion tracking controller ahead of the crucial Christmas shopping season in order to drive up sales afterwards.In an interview with Gamesindustry.biz Neil Thompson, who is leading the United ... |
7 December 2010
14:51 GMT |
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Sony Computer Entertainment, the company which guides the evolution of the PlayStation 3 home gaming console, has announced that the PlayStation Move motion tracking controller managed to sell more than 4.1 million worldwide since it was released in the middle of September.The numbers refer only to the main package w... |
1 December 2010
17:41 GMT |
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Hardware maker and video game publisher Microsoft has announced that Kinect, its motion tracking system which was launched on November 4, has managed to sell 2.5 million units all over the world in the first 25 days it was available for sales.This comes just after Media Create said that the new device has had a quiet... |
30 November 2010
16:41 GMT |
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Media Create, the company which watches the hardware and the software markets in Japan, has said that the Kinect motion tracking system which Microsoft has launched for the Xbox 360 home console has managed just 26,000 units in the first weekend it has been on sales, with the company saying that represents “a q... |
29 November 2010
16:41 GMT |
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One of the people who have worked on the development of the PlayStation Move motion tracking system from Sony has said that the newly announced lightsaber simulation title which Microsoft is working for the Kinect add on will not manage to deliver a good experience to players.Anton Mikhailov, who is a software engine... |
29 November 2010
04:30 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware creator Microsoft has announced that the Kinect motion tracking system for the Xbox 360, which has launched in the United States on November 4, has managed to sell more than one million units and is currently on track to sell more than the 4 million the company initially estimated fo... |
16 November 2010
03:14 GMT |
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A Microsoft executive has confirmed that the Kinect based Star Wars video game that the company has shown initially at the E3 presentation which focused on the motion tracking device is currently scheduled for launch in the Christmas shopping period of 2011.Kudo Tsunoda, who is the creative director for Kinect and wa... |
11 November 2010
05:10 GMT |
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A representative of the specialist retail chain GameStop has said that the launch of the PlayStation Move from Sony and the Kinect from Microsoft is bringing in new customers into the game stores and is creating a new segment of players that are more interested in social and family games than in blockbuster shooters ... |
11 November 2010
03:09 GMT |
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The market research firm Ipsos has stated that the Kinect motion tracking system from Microsoft for the Xbox 360 will be “the big game winner for U.S. 2010 holiday season”, managing to edge out the PlayStation Move system from Sony.Ipsos has surveyed consumers about the two motion tracking systems and has... |
8 November 2010
13:31 GMT |
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A Microsoft executive has claimed that when the Kinect motion tracking system is released on November 4 the company will profit from every unit which is sold to gamers, despite the big initial investment in development and the 500 million dollars price tag for the advertising campaign that will inform the public abou... |
29 October 2010
15:31 GMT |
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The University of Colorado Business School has put together a new study which suggests that those workers who train using video games can absorb and then remember their training better than those that are exposed to more passive learning methods.The study is set to be published in the scientific journal Personnel Psy... |
26 October 2010
03:12 GMT |
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Sony Computer Entertainment of America, the hardware manufacturer and video games publisher, has announced that it's PlayStation Move motion tracking controller has shipped 1 million units to retailers set in North America and Latin America in the first 30 days the new product was on sale.Sony Computer Entertain... |
25 October 2010
03:16 GMT |
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Steve Ballmer, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, has stated that the company is very excited over the launch of the Kinect motion tracking system, saying that it will be on the scale of a entirely new home console launch.The CEO was speaking at the London School of Economics and answered a question abo... |
6 October 2010
04:49 GMT |
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The recently delayed Little Big Planet 2 will arrive with an additional set of levels that the developers at Media Molecule have specifically designed to work with the PlayStation Move motion tracking controls, aiming to show how players can themselves use it to then created new content for the game.James Spafford, w... |
5 October 2010
15:01 GMT |
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A Microsoft executive has stated that the processor which the company eliminated from the Kinect motion tracking system was not actually needed as the processing needed by the device can be handled by the Xbox 360 home console without anyone seeing a drop in performance.Kudo Tsunoda, who was the creative boss in char... |
30 September 2010
05:15 GMT |
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