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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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At the press conference which also confirmed that launch date and price for the 3DS handheld in Japan Nintendo has also officially confirmed the existence of a new model of the Wiimote, called the Wii Remote Plus, which combines both the original device and the Motion Plus add on in a good looking new package.Nintend... |
30 September 2010
03:05 GMT |
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A Microsoft executive has stated that the current generation of gaming consoles, which includes the Nintendo Wii, the PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's own Xbox 360, will continue to dominate the market for a long time with the creation process for a new device still years away.Stephen McGill, who is the director of... |
24 September 2010
04:28 GMT |
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Publisher THQ sees video games built around using the unique motion tracking capabilities of Kinect from Microsoft and the PlayStation Move from Sony as a viable and cheaper alternative to bigger AAA titles, which often take up a lot of resources and do not provide expected returns.Brian Farrell, who is the Chief Exe... |
24 September 2010
03:50 GMT |
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Doctor Richard Marks, who is a senior researcher working for the Research and Development department for Sony Computer Entertainment, has stated that he believes the PlayStation Move motion tracking controller, which uses a wand with buttons, is more flexible than the Kinect from Microsoft, which is based around reco... |
7 September 2010
18:51 GMT |
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A Microsoft executive has stated that the Kinect motion tracking system, set to launch in November, will be attractive for hardcore players because it introduces a clear way for skill to be evaluated in video games, even though no launch titles are clearly aimed at an audience who enjoys experiences based around conf... |
6 September 2010
16:11 GMT |
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Shinji Mikami, the man behind the success of the Resident Evil series, has stated that it will take more than ten years for motion control peripherals like Kinect from Microsoft and the PlayStation Move from Sony to become fully mainstream in the gaming world.The game designer, who is at the moment working on Vanquis... |
6 September 2010
03:26 GMT |
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Konami Digital Entertainment has announced a new title, called Adrenalin Misfits, that is set to be released for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and will make full use of the new Kinect motion tracking system, which is currently set to be launched in November.The publisher says that the new game will allow player to feel... |
2 September 2010
16:21 GMT |
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Konami Digital Entertainment has announced Dance Masters, a new simulation title that will arrive exclusively on the Xbox 360 platform from Microsoft and will use the new Kinect motion tracking system, which does not use a physical controller.Kinect can track movements of the entire body and Konami will use this abil... |
1 September 2010
17:31 GMT |
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A prominent analyst of the video game industry has stated that the Microsoft made Kinect motion tracking system for the Xbox 360 home console might sell more than 4 million units from its November launch date to the end of the year.The biggest hardware launches of the fall on the Western market are Microsoft's K... |
24 August 2010
03:22 GMT |
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Sony has shown off the first images of the Move powered edition of Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain which is now set to be released before this year's Christmas rolls around. The game is getting a new control scheme that allows players who purchase the Move motion tracking system to control the characters more in... |
11 August 2010
03:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting ready to launch Kinect in November, adding motion tracking to the Xbox 360. Sony is preparing to launch the Move with the same aim and will also introduce three dimensional gaming to the PlayStation 3. And watchers of the video game industry agree that Nintendo must be working on a new version of... |
5 August 2010
16:31 GMT |
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Kinect is marketed by Microsoft as a new way to experience video games, based on natural motion of the player, but one of the most interesting uses for the new device will be in controlling the dashboard of the Xbox 360 console, with motion tracking used to make it easier for the user to navigate the menu system and ... |
15 July 2010
16:41 GMT |
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Soon, we'll be playing Fable III by actually walking in place to move the character around the game world, with only the more casual of us selecting an in-game multiplier, which makes one real-life step translate into 100 in game.Soon, we'll be jumping over cover in Uncharted 3 by actually grabbing the Move... |
26 June 2010
08:31 GMT |
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It seems that gamers who are looking for an official price point for the Kinect motion tracking system from Microsoft cannot even trust the company to provide one. An official page on the Microsoft Store put out the price of 150 dollars earlier in the week but it appears no source should be trusted on the price befor... |
25 June 2010
15:11 GMT |
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Common wisdom holds that with the launch of Kinect from Microsoft and PlayStation Move from Sony, the makers of the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 are aiming to take a chunk out of the market currently dominated by Nintendo with its Wii home console. But recent comments from the most important man at the company show... |
25 June 2010
13:31 GMT |
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We were once accustomed to seeing rumors about a next generation console being developed by Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo every couple of months but with the launch of the PlayStation 3 Slim, the push for new motion tracking controllers and the transition to three-dimensional gaming, it seems console makers were tellin... |
24 June 2010
04:13 GMT |
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EA Sports has managed to be one of the few third-party publishers to have very successful launches on the Nintendo Wii, adapting motion tracking to some of their best known titles, like Tiger Woods, and that makes them ideal candidates to put together titles that make full use of Kinect from Microsoft and the PlaySta... |
24 June 2010
01:58 GMT |
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We already know that Kinect, the motion tracking system formerly known as Project Natal, is set to come out on November 4 but Microsoft has stubbornly refused to talk about the price for the new device, despite reports coming out that it might range between 140 and 200 dollars. It has denied any rumors and it seems i... |
17 June 2010
08:51 GMT |
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With Microsoft changing the name of its motion tracking system from Project Natal to Kinect and preparing for a November launch date, it was Sony's time to make a move in the field, announcing that the PlayStation Move system would be launch on September 15 in Europe, four days later in North America, while the ... |
16 June 2010
06:33 GMT |
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After officially announcing a name change, which turned Project Natal into Kinect, Microsoft also revealed that the motion tracking system designed to work with the Xbox 360 home console would be officially launched on November 4 in North America with the rest of the world set to get it soon after that date.The conce... |
15 June 2010
06:10 GMT |
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It seems actual real-life gamers are not too interested in buying Project Natal from Microsoft and the PlayStation Move from Sony, the motion tracking systems set go on sale during the fall and will receive a lot of attention at the E3 trade show this week.The GamePlan Insights tracking study, conducted in the United... |
14 June 2010
15:11 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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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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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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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'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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Nintendo has officially announced that, on May 9, those who are looking to pick up one of its home consoles on the American market will get a new bundle including the console itself, the Wii Sports videogame and the Nunchuk peripheral (which were already part of the package) but also the newer Wii Sports Resort packa... |
5 May 2010
13:11 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
18:01 GMT |
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Sony has made another naming move and announced that the add-on for the Move that will be used with the off-hand will now be called the Navigation Controller. Initially, Sony referred to the same hardware as a sub controller and said that it would be used in some Move-based gaming experiences in order to provide addi... |
15 April 2010
13:11 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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Codemasters has announced that it is working on a new game in the DiRT franchise, which will probably arrive in 2011 and might have a very different tone from the American accents evident in the second installment in the series. The racing game is one of the most successful franchises Codemasters has.Gavin Cheshire, ... |
17 March 2010
05:17 GMT |
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Sony held a presentation at the GDC meet up and the biggest news coming out of the event has been that the Sony motion tracking controller has been finally given an official name, the PlayStation Move. It seems that previous rumors, which pointed to names like Arc and Gem, were not accurate and that the company has b... |
11 March 2010
05:47 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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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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The first big PlayStation 3 exclusive of 2010 is Heavy Rain, a game set to be launched on February 23, promising an experience that goes beyond what videogames can offer at the moment. And one of the concepts the team tried out early in the development process was motion control as a way to guide the characters aroun... |
16 February 2010
16:21 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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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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Nintendo is well known for the secrecy that surrounds new projects, specifically when they are hardware related. Despite the endless speculation, the company is still not saying anything about the rumored Wii HD, which some state could arrive as early as 2011.So, it was refreshing to see company president Satoru Iwat... |
13 January 2010
16:51 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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Nintendo has filed a trademark in Japan for the name “Zii,” saying that it will be used in relation to videogame and other electronic devices. The paperwork for the new trademark is said to have gone through on October 30 and assures that the name is protected in Japan but not in any other states.The vide... |
17 December 2009
17:01 GMT |
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At the E3 trade conference this year, Sony unveiled its wand-based motion tracking controller, announcing that it plans to release it to gamers at some point in spring 2010. The device does not yet have a catchy commercial name (and “the Sony wand” seems to be poised to stick) but the company has already ... |
9 December 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Ubisoft is getting ready to release videogames for both the Sony wand, the motion tracking system coming to the PlayStation 3 at some point late in spring, and Project Natal, the motion-powered control solution that will arrive for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft. The company is preparing more games for the latter’... |
2 December 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Sony has set a target of selling 13 million PlayStation 3 gaming consoles during the course of this fiscal year and Kaz Hirai, who is an executive vice president of the Japanese company, is telling the media that he is very confident that his company will surpass that number of devices sold.During the last fiscal yea... |
24 November 2009
03:49 GMT |
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Motion control is coming into its own in a big way. The Nintendo Wii has had it for some time but a lot of people dismissed it as just a gimmick to bring in more casual players but now the Xbox 360 is getting Project Natal set to arrive at some point in 2010, while the PlayStation 3 is getting the motion tracking wan... |
4 November 2009
07:25 GMT |
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