The Kinect is pretty good, but who is satisfied with “pretty good”? Having spent many days with Kinect, I’ve got five requests for how Microsoft could improve this thing. 1. More Than 25% Kinect In My Dashboard, Please I’ve raved about the Kinect’s support for voice control. I love talking to my TV and actually…
There are more things to do in New York City than go to the Nintendo store to watch speedruns. Starting tomorrow, you can go to the revamped PlayStation store. All we need after that is a Dreamcast store, right? The official PlayStation blog teases the following stuff in this new PlayStation lounge which opens on…
The Sunday celebration in New York City for Super Mario Bros.’ 25th anniversary included cake, Super Mario cake. At the Nintendo World Store near Rockefeller Center, Nintendo’s lead game designer and Super Mario creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, cut the cake alongside Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime (pictured left in the photo below.) Let’s look at…
My, how first person shooters have changed! (As seen on Reddit.)
Microsoft’s new Kinect sensor continues to walk the path of Nintendo’s Wii with Civil-War-reenactment precision. 1) Sports mini-game compilation released. 2) Talk show hosts made giddy. Now: 3) Accidental swattings and injuries immortalized on YouTube and elsewhere. Up top is one unintended swat of one Kinect gamer by another. Here is a second, though the…
The head of the 375-person development studio Artificial Mind and Movement realized his company had a bad name. So, today, they’ve changed it, and revealed two sequels in the process: Wet 2. Naughty Bear 2. They’re coming from the studio now known as Behaviour Interactive. Live with that “u” in there, Americans. Starting today, then,…
The moment you were awaiting is now. You may talk about video games with your fellow Kotaku readers. And you may do it here. Hooray! Thanks to KindaGamey for today’s image, even though it makes me feel like I’m missing a reference to some meme. Do your best to confuse me and submit your own…
Andrew Gardikis once beat Super Mario Bros. in five minutes. Shigeru Miyamoto created Super Mario Bros. a quarter century ago. The two men were at the Nintendo World Store today, where Andrew tried to repeat his feat. Miyamoto watched. Pressure! The event was part of a celebration at the Manhattan store for the 25th anniversary…
Kinect game reviews, good and bad. Kinect stress tests. Kinect photographed near a can of beans. A video diary of nine days with Kinect. A tale of two re-arranged living rooms It’s all here in our definitive Kinect article round-up. What We Loved, What We Hated About the Xbox 360 Kinect Microsoft calls it a…
The Nintendo World Store (and former Pokemon Center) hosts a grand-re-opening on Sunday — several days after re-opening — in New York City. They’re having a 25th anniversary party for Super Mario Bros., with the promise of Super Mario cake. Cake. Mario games. Someone in a Mario suit. Surely, Mario gets more of a party…
Chris Crawford, whose lifelong dream has been to master the creation of interactive storytelling, turned 60 in late June. He moved the final red bead, the ones marking each day of his sixth decade, to the jar on the left. In a sobering late June post I saw yesterday as it wound its way through…
I have little animosity for the virtual people I shoot in video games. They are cardboard targets. The worst they can do is kill the virtual me. My “death” lasts a few seconds. I can’t hate them for that. This changed last week. I played the beginning of the upcoming first-person shooter Homefront and I…
The people at CTA Digital keep making wacky video game peripherals that keep us laughing. Because the PlayStation Move doesn’t look distinct enough on its own, what if it was part of a steering wheel? Or part of a fake machine gun? Keep on keeping us entertained, CTA Digital. (For the story on who CTA…
Talking about games is not as difficult as completing Super Meat Boy, right? So let’s get started right here. Let the gaming discussions begin. Thanks to KindaGamey for today’s image. Submit yours to #TAYpics
The Halo franchise has infiltrated a Kinect launch game. What kind of gesture-controlled Halo are we talking about? Video spoilers below. The video here is from Kinectimals. It shows two of what I believe are three unlockable Halo elements in the game. Both the Warthog and the Ghost you see in the clip are iconic…
Brian Crecente and I have each been using Kinect for over a week, playing and reviewing many of the launch games. Are you worried about living room space? Wondering about games or the dashboard? Ask away and we’ll answer here. For more Kinect coverage, including reviews, gameplay videos and a lot more check out all…
Microsoft’s new Kinect device will put an advanced sensor array in the living room of millions of people, an Internet-connected set of machine ears and eyes capable of capturing voice, recognizing faces and tracking body movement. Don’t worry, the company says, we won’t peep. “By default we don’t listen or look at anything,” MIcrosoft’s director…
It’s another day to talk about video games. Do your best right here. Thanks to reader Ben for today’s image. Submit yours to #TAYpics
One man lives with a Kinect for nine days. What happens? How does his mind change? What are the surprises? And where in the world does the guy go on Day 7? This is my Kinect Diary, in video.
Kinect needs a lot of room, more room than any video game control device before it. But where there’s a will to move furniture or rotate TVs, there is a way. This is how we made room in two homes. From Stephen Totilo, deputy editor, based in Brooklyn: Space is tight in my Brooklyn condo.…
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