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Call of Duty: Ghosts will support Kinect voice commands on Xbox One, Activision’s Eric Hirshberg has confirmed. It’s not yet clear if you can ‘bark’ orders at the dog, but we can hope.

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Microsoft’s senior vice president of Interactive Entertainment Business Yusuf Mehdi has stated that given the broad multimedia focus of Xbox One, there’s no reason why it can’t shift between 400 million and 1 billion consoles in its lifetime. He said the company is also angling for 100 million Xbox 360 console sales in the next five years.

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Xbox One will come bundled with Microsoft’s new Kinect sensor bar, and a new patent filed by the company suggests the device will impose certain DRM restrictions based on who it sees in the room, and more.

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Xbox One will not support old Xbox 360 controllers or other devices, a Microsoft spokesperson has confirmed in a statement issued this morning.

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As more and more details are released and clarified by Microsoft regarding the specification of the Xbox One features and functionality, it has been revealed that the microphone for Xbox One’s Kinect will always be on.
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Kinect is still a big deal over at Microsoft, as the company has just published a new job ad for candidates to help them take the motion-controlled tech to the next level. The advert also makes no secret that the team will “fail” at times, but that each failure leads to new ideas. It’s also a high-risk job, the posting states. See it in full below.

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You’ve owned the club. You strolled in there, busted a mean running man and left. Now it’s time to do it in your living room. No dancer can be taken seriously without an array of games that force you to do the robot. Ubisoft’s Hip Hop Dance Experience has received a new trailer, and there’s plenty to be getting on with.

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Red Bull Crashed Ice, an extreme sports party game based on Red Bull’s very own winter sporting event has been unveiled and is in development at Stoked studio Bongfish. The game will also be playable at PAX Prime next week.

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As expected, upcoming basketballer NBA 2K13 will support Kinect voice commands. However, PlayStation Move support has been axed.

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EA will deliver Kinect’s voice and motion control in more of the publishers titles moving forward, EA Sports boss Andrew Wilson has confirmed.

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Madden 13 developer EA Tiburon reckons the game is better with Kinect, and has discussed the implementation of voice commands in the game.

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Capcom’s announced exclusive pre-order incentives for those who pre-order From Software’s upcoming mech combat sequel Steel Battalion: Heavy Armour.

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Capcom’s confirmed that its Kinect-exclusive Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor will be releasing on June 19 in North America and June 22 in Europe.

It also released a brand new trailer to go along which deals with the story of the game’s main protagonist Sgt. Power, and his platoon. You can check the trailer out after the break.

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A set of recruitment ads suggests Microsoft’s planning to set up two new Kinect-focused development studios.

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Eurogamer’s rumouring that the next version of Kinect will be powerful enough to lip-read and “detect when players are angry”.

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Microsoft has released a video, which shows all the various ways Kinect is being used, or in the process of being used for. It’s to celebrate the device turning a year old. Also the Kinect for Windows SDK beta has moved to stage two which adds “faster skeletal tracking, a better accuracy rate when it comes to skeletal tracking and joint recognition, and the ability to plug and unplug your Kinect without losing work or productivity.” The commercial program’s still slated for an early 2012 launch. Thanks, Engadget.

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If you love swimming but just hate getting wet, the answer to all your prayers might finally be here – a Kinect-based swimming simulator, Michael Phelps: Push the Limit.

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Microsoft is showing off a lot of their Kinect offerings to the public this week at the Eurogamer Expo, but if you can’t make it down there and want to try out Kinect’s latest they’ve just lifted the lid on a new road show which will see their major Kinect releases playable to the public in a variety of locations.

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Nyko’s Zoom, an accessory designed to reduce the amount of space required to use Microsoft’s Kinect, has finally been released.

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Rare tells us that despite being a departure from the games that made the studio famous, Kinect Sports and its sequel Kinect Sports: Season 2 still bear the hallmarks of a Rare product.

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