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I have this silly daydream of a Kinect-enabled baseball game. In it, you can call for your runner to steal by going through the signals of a third-base coach. Then touch the cap, touch the belt, touch the letters, indicator, sign, corners of the mouth, batter-up fists, clap, let's go. More »
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Head- and eye-tracking will be the next big breakthrough in motion-controlled gaming. Forza Motorsport 4 will deliver it via Kinect. But for first-person shooters, we're still stuck controlling our look with our arms, an act as unnatural as it is inconvenient. Some University of Texas students have whipped up a solution for that. More »
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Sony gives SOCOM fans a chance to gear up for the new age of motion-controlled shooters with the $150 Full Deployment Edition of SOCOM 4. What's inside? More »
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In 2006, before Kinect and maybe even before Wii, gamer Niel de la Rouviere decided to make a motion-controller for Quake III. He says he was bored; I say that Niel de la Rouviere, armed with masking tape, was efficient. More »
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This video by Vimeo user David Ghent shows what it looks like when New Year's (Eve?) is mixed with alcohol, Xbox 360 Kinect motion gaming and some PlayStation Move — all in a room that's not that big. More »
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Yesterday Microsoft posted an impressive 2.5 million Kinect units sold worldwide since the device went on sale earlier this month. Today Sony comes back with even more impressive numbers for the PlayStation Move, albeit over an extended period of time. More »
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The PS3 is good for motion gaming and "sitting gaming," everyone's fave fake exec says in his latest ad, published today. Is that a dig at Kinect's capacity to recognize people gaming from their couch? More »
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The PlayStation Move, like a Wii Remote bolstered by Motion Plus is supposed to tolerate people who stop pointing the controller at the TV. I accidentally completed a successful test of that yesterday. More »
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But, said Sony's top marketing officer, they look down their nose at Nintendo's motion control, and that's why the PlayStation Move is on the scene - to make this kind of thing cool for the core. More »
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You've heard all about Project Natal, but Microsoft's 3D motion controller solution would have fallen completely flat if not for PrimeSense's 3D sensing technology. What is PrimeSense? More »
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EA Sports doesn't sound enthusiastic about integrating Project Natal or PlayStation Move motion control into its FIFA series, with the game's producer saying the soccer experience they can supply for such a game "isn't particularly authentic." More »
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The PlayStation Move thrives in darkness, could enable a new kind of Greek god game, has 10 hours of battery life, a mystery port and a simple innovation that could be profound. More »
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The man behind the most advanced video game swordplay available today says the time is now right — and the technology is now good enough — for a motion-controlled Star Wars lightsaber video game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5502003&view=rss&microfeed=true Two new demos of PlayStation Move, shot by us today, show some of the coolest things that Sony's Move motion controllers can do. Two weeks ago, we saw Move control games. Today, Move moved windows and made the Eiffel Tower. More »
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A skeptical world might not see video games as essential. But we can point to many games that feel worthy of this planet. Games about eating mushrooms, arranging falling blocks, saving the world. However: A first-person shooter with motion-based swordplay? More »
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Sony has updated its official PlayStation Move page with a couple of new games taking advantage of the PlayStation 3's upcoming motion controller, Toy Story 2 and Brunswick Pro Bowling. I hope those wrist straps are sturdy. More »
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Viewed in the hands of someone who helped make or market the game, the Playstation 3's motion controlled Motion Fighter looks like the sort of thing everyone will want to play and watch be played. But once it was in my hands things changed, drastically. More »
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The next edition of Tiger Woods PGA Tour will support the PlayStation "Arc" motion controller, though it's not due for release until fall. So the game isn't technically an Arc launch title, but still one supporting Arc at launch. More »
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Everything changed in 2001, the year Nintendo decided that the future of gaming didn't lay in faster processors and photorealistic images, but in interaction. More »
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EA Sports boss Peter Moore says he's keeping a close eye on 3D gaming, but while it's a new priority for Sony it's not yet one for his division. More »
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Sony has just announced that its motion control peripheral for the PlayStation 3 will not, as originally planned, be shipping in Spring 2010. More »
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Capcom's first sortie with Project Natal will be "a brand focus ... perhaps a brand we haven't seen in a while," according to senior exec Christian Svensson, who was expectedly coy when pressed for specifics. More »
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If Wii MotionPlus or Microsoft's Project Natal are the next generations of video game motion control, what, you may wonder, is the next generation of controlling a video game by blowing your breath at it? More »
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Left 4 Dead 2, not being a Wii game, hasn't been playable by many people with motion controls. But PC peripheral maker Razer and motion-control company Sixense are teaming up at CES to bring motion control to the PC's finest. More »
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An oblique reference to a DS successor helped turn Satoru Iwata's interview with Japan's leading newspaper into a full-on bombshell. Specifically, the Nintendo chief said such a device must be enabled for motion control. What could they be working on? More »
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Picture tennis on the Wii, but without a Remote. You could say it's like Microsoft's Project Natal, but the surprise new Wii game that pulls this off is actually borrowing an approach from Sony's EyeToy. Kotaku swung through it yesterday. More »
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Chatting with the producer of Capcom's jet-pack shooter Dark Void today, I learned that Sixaxis was not a control option for the game. Why not? "False positives." More »
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Recap: a "Resident Evil 5 Alternative Edition," was announced two weeks ago at TGS. But that's a Japanese version. The North American edition is not finalized. And so Capcom is asking: Should it be digital or physical? More »
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This past weekend's Approval Ratings sought to measure your attitude toward the PSPgo, which launched this week, and also motion control systems, which have been much in the news lately. You're not going for either in strong numbers. More »
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After a week's hiatus, Kotaku Approval Ratings has returned to measure your opinions on certain games, concepts and controversies involved in the news over the past two weeks. More »
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In this five minute video, Sony's new motion control wand is used in a cooperative mode of LittleBigPlanet. One player handles Sackboy with a Dualshock, while another manipulates objects to help him complete his tour through the level. More »
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Sony Computer Entertainment Japan's TGS presser revealed that the "Resident Evil 5: Director's Cut" will employ the Sony motion controller now under development. Here is video of that announcement, and the controller being used with the game. More »
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2K Sports' NBA game, like its NHL counterpart, comes to the Wii for the first time with this year's edition. This trailer gives a look at the motion controls which, for the most part, seem reasonably intuitive. More »
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When last we heard about Natal, and the possibility of air guitaring Guitar Hero, a Neversoft producer said they were 'interested.' If they're not, RedOctane is. Their president just upgraded the Natal/Guitar Hero connection to "likely." More »
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For those wondering if Microsoft's Project Natal motion control automatically means they're working on Natal-enabled Halo titles, Halo 3: ODST producer's says, not necessarily. "We are committing to only doing it when it makes sense," Alex Cutting told VideoGamer.com. More »
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In a 7-minute video chat, Anton Mikhailov of Sony Computer Entertainment America takes us on another tour of the PlayStation Motion Controller, whose prototype he reveals was assembled from some spare parts bought up at a Home Depot. More »
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The still un-sexily named PlayStation 3 motion controller may have a feature or two you don't yet know about. Thankfully, the PlayStation blog and creator of things neat Dr. Richard Marks are here to inform you. More »
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As part of Sony's Gamescom press conference earlier today, the company showed off some new footage of its motion controller. More »
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The Wii Revolution has succeeded. Everyone knows this. What was once doubted and mocked now dominates and broadly entertains. But a major Wii struggle, made relevant again by the pending release of Wii Sports Resort, has hidden in plain sight. More »
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Today in Brighton, UK at conference Develop 2009, Sony has shown off its new PS3 motion controller, which was first debuted at this year's E3 in Los Angeles (pictured). More »
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