Last night’s edition of Comedy Central’s fake news program had cranky commentator Lewis Black ranting about new and upcoming technology. Along with Google Glass, Black takes aim at the Xbox One and its always-watching/listening Kinect camera. It’s pretty funny stuff. (Except that Black doesn’t mention that you’ll…

The old Kinect was notorious for needing a fairly large space in which to play, so the camera could accurately capture your movements. I mean, I live in a house, and my living room setup wasn't big enough.

I just got out of a tech demo—called Reflex—where a Microsoft representative leaned side-to-side, pointed at the screen, and raised an Xbox One controller to help him maneuver, attack and defend in a first-person shooter type of game. It wasn't as elegant as they'd have us believe, but it certainly looked more useful…

If you're one of the people who grumbled after hearing that the Fantasia: Music Evolved video game would be featuring contemporary pop music, there's some good news. Wired is reporting that "Night on Bald Mountain"—famous for being in the ending sequence from the 1940 Fantasia animated movie—will be in the game, along…

Yesterday was an unusually troubling day for online privacy. Microsoft clarified the potentially problematic privacy settings for the Kinect video and audio sensor that must be plugged into the Xbox One for it to operate. And yet according to a stunning, unrelated report, Microsoft has also been offering up its users'…

Responding to worries that an always-on Kinect sensor recording camera and audio information would be a threat to user privacy, Microsoft offers a simple solution: the ability to turn the Kinect off, which they'd told us about. Better: pause it while gaming.

We’ve already gotten a good look at some new features of the Xbox One controller, like the improved analog sticks, difference in grip texture and new trigger feedback. There’s even more info in a new post on the Xbox news site. But the thing that excites me the most is the fact that you won’t have to sync the damn…

The Xbox One will always be watching, waiting—and GrittyReboots rolls with that premise with this video, where the new Kinect is terrifyingly like Hal 9000. Of course, while this take on the Xbox One is funny, the Xbone experience will be nothing like this....hopefully!

It's been two years since Lima Sky announced it would be bringing mobile sensation Doodle Jump to the Xbox 360 as a Kinect-powered downloadable game, and the thought tickles me just as much today as it did back then, only now there are pretty screens to temper my amusement.

Look, I know there’s disappointment that the new Fantasia: Music Evolved video game revealed this morning isn’t a lush, hand-painted cartoon. And some people have bemoaned the fact that it’ll be using licensed music from best-selling pop acts. So, no: this game isn’t going to port a 70-year-old animated classic onto…