Category Archives: Kinect

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced a new Harry Potter title exclusively for Kinect.

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Did you know that legendary anime director Mamoru Oshii is making a short live action film to promote Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor? Nope, me either. Here’s a tiny teaser trailer for it.

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The demo for Capcom’s upcoming Kinect-based, mech-controlling, World War II-styled shooter Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor has been quietly placed online for download on Xbox Live.

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Microsoft Japan has whacked a June 13 release date on downloadable Kinect shooter Crimson Dragon. No word yet on international dating, but Andriasang has the price down – 1200 MS Points. The gorgeous on-rails experience was previously known as Project Draco; shares control similarities with Child of Eden; and was built by former Panzer Dragoon developers. We have loved it forever. See some new screens through the break.

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Kinesthetic Games has announced Kung Fu Superstar for Kinect, which features “real Kung Fu techniques.” Developed by former Lionhead staffer, Kostas Zarifis, players will don the persona of Danny Chengas he goes from being an aspiring martial artist to an international, Hollywood star. Players will use their full body or an Xbox 360 controller to learn “authentic martial arts techniques,” and level up Danny’s fighting abilities. Skills learned will then be put to the test on a movie set, where players will participate in various fight sequences amide explosive action. Watch the announcement trailer below.

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Ubisoft has released two videos for Babel Rising. One is for Move, and the other Kinect. The title is also slated for iOS and PC. Dates, formats and the trailers are below.

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Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda has said the “evolution of existing features as well as the invention of new ones,” from Kinect will come from its current model and not Kinect 2, as developers become more experienced using current tech.

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Starting today, Xbox Live Gold members who are also Time Warner Cable and Bright House customers will be able to access HBO GO through the console. Those in the US can now watch the entire HBO catalogue of live and on demand original content from newer shows such as Game of Thrones to old favorites like The Sopranos. You can even use Kinect to control it. Get more through the Major.

The Kinect version of Steel Battalion will be hard, Capcom’s warned.

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Thanks to updates to Kinect’s gesture-recognition capacities, Capcom is pretty sure mech sim Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor is the best game the motion controller has fielded.

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A source close to The Verge has told the site Microsoft is bringing Internet Explorer to Xbox 360 with Kinect capabilities. The firm is supposedly testing IE 9 on the console now, and upon release it will have Bing voice search integrated for media-only results, while the browser end will allow users to surf the net while sitting in their living areas. Kinect support won’t be mandatory, according to the source, but since Kinect has been heavily integrated into it, users may wish to at least try it out. If true, and not far-fetched in the slightest, look for Microsoft to reveal the tech at E3.

Ubisoft’s announced Avengers: Battle for Earth. It’ll launch for Wii U and Kinect from Ubisoft Quebec.

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Another day, another amazing use for Kinect which has almost nothing to do with games. According to a report in New Scientist, Microsoft’s motion control tech is being used at the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development, to help identify early signs of autism in young children. Five Kinects places around the room feed into one processing unit, which keeps track of a room full of kiddies and looks for those showing behaviour which deviates from the average activity level of the room. Wow. It is okay to be frightened.

Thanks, Eurogamer.

Majesco will be bringing its Kinect exclusive NBA Baller Beats, and its next iteration of its 6 million worldwide-seller, Zumba Fitness, to E3 this year. The former is a basketball game where players use a real basketball as they train alongside unlockable NBA franchises. In the background plays a “diverse soundtrack,” with 100 unlockable posters and training card as well as difficulty levels which will guide you in your quest to become “the ultimat e-baller.” More information on both titles will be releases in June.

Microsoft is making Kinect Play Fit, according to a Verge report. The effort will also come with an accessory, currently codenamed Joule.

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Microsoft has made it’s $99 Xbox 360 offer official in the US.

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Nelson’s confirmed that a Kinect Star Wars demo is now up on Xbox Live.

Thanks to the determined efforts of Facebook fans, Harmonix has unlocked a new dance crew for Dance Central 2. If your Xbox 360 is connected to Live, you should find the new additions waiting for you next time you fire it up. They’re ninjas. This seems pretty ideal.

Thanks, Destructoid.

Microsoft’s announced a Union Jack-branded Xbox 360 Kinect bundle will launch at the end of this month in – where else – the UK.

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Lionhead has said Fable Heroes isn’t indicative of future development, according to lead designer Ted Timmins who likened the game to “six guys” creating something “in their spare time,” which was liked well enough by the powers-that-be to warrant a release.

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