Our First Look At Natal’s Star Wars, Sports Games (And Minority Report Menus)

Following tonight’s Cirque du Soleil performance in Los Angeles, Microsoft gave us a first look at many of Kinect’s first titles, most of which we’d never seen before. Most promising may well be a Star Wars game, developed by Microsoft and Lucasarts, that features controller-free lightsaber duels, complete with force powers like “force push”. Kinect…

Cirque Performance a Pitch Not Just for Natal, but Games

In the two years he’s been the executive producer for Microsoft’s E3 appearance, Aaron Greenberg’s brought The Beatles on stage and tonight, Cirque du Soleil. He expects to be asked how he’ll outdo that, and he doesn’t have an answer. “I’m eager to not have to try to one-up this next year, that’s for sure,”…

Joy Ride

Your Shape

Kinect Adventures

Kinect Sports

Kinectimals

Dance Central

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What Are We Forced To Wear To See The Xbox Kinect?

Microsoft is holding a pre-E3 event tonight, the “Project Natal” for Xbox 360 Experience, starring the acrobatic elite of Cirque du Soleil and forcing us to don… whatever it is that Deputy Editor Stephen Totilo is wearing right now. Are those choir robes? Some sort of disco Jedi outfits? Is Gallagher going to be there…

Rumor: Metroid Prime Team On, Like, Donkey Kong

Retro Studios, the Austin, Texas based development team responsible for making three Metroid Prime games for Nintendo—and one Metroid Prime compilation—may be ready to reveal its new project, a game reportedly starring Donkey Kong. IGN reports that it has heard “credible” talk about Retro Studios creating a Donkey Kong title for the Wii, which, one…

Don’t These Kinect Games Sound Awfully Familiar?

So the Microsoft Kinect is official, and we’ve seen a list of exciting new titles making their way to the Xbox 360 motion control device, but where’s the innovation? Is Kinect changing the game, or delivering more of the same? USA Today’s story (since pulled) on the newly renamed Kinect highlights several of the titles…

The Week in Games: Maintain Radio Silence

The week of E3 is about what you can’t buy, not what you can. Publishers don’t want their major reveals competing with their latest offerings and vice versa. So only Toy Story 3 qualifies as a big drop this week. Monday, June 7 Bejeweled 2 (WiiWare) Legend of Kay (DS) Also: A Kappa’s Trail (DSiWare);…

Your Kinect Hosts Are…

Tonight’s big Xbox 360-themed Cirque du Soleil performance will be co-hosted by iCarly’s Jennette McCurdy and MTV’s Sway Calloway. The two both mentioned their hosting duties in recent Twitter posts. It makes sense that Microsoft would tap popular stars for their big show, which is being repacked to air on, among other channels, MTV and…

Project Natal Officially Renamed “Kinect”, More Games Revealed

There’s no need for conjecture; Microsoft’s upcoming motion control peripheral, once known as Project Natal, is now to be officially known as “Kinect”. “For lots of people, that controller is a barrier,” Microsoft creative director Kudo Tsunoda told USA Today. “We set out to make a new control paradigm where anybody can get in and…

So What’s Inside The New Xbox 360?

It appears, going by some advertisements popping up online just before E3 kicks off, that Microsoft plans to unveil a new model of the Xbox 360. What, then, does this new console bring to the table? For starters, as you can see, the most immediate difference is in the look of the machine. Gone are…

New Xbox 360 Coming, Project Natal Renamed to Kinect And More

As gaming’s big week prepares to kick off tonight with a circus-themed blow-out in downtown Los Angeles, the rumors are beginning to hit a fevered pitch. Three bits of news came to our attention this weekend. Let’s run through them from most likely to least likely: Patrice Désilets is headed to THQ Montreal: We know…

Six Hours to L.A.

To: Luke From: Owen Re: We Are Roger for E3 I have to get on a plane for E3, so no fast food blogging or Uncle Owen’s Tales of Growing Up in the South. In fact, I’m not even getting to L.A. until midnight because of the connecting flight in San Francisco. I’d get there…

Our E3 2010 Party Is Tonight!

Today’s the day, party hounds. Kotaku is throwing its annual pre-E3 shindig in downtown LA and here are the details on the when, the where and the how old you have to be. Our brand new location this year is the lovely Broadway Bar in downtown Los Angeles. The festivities, which include boozing and schmoozing,…

The Giant Video Game Banners E3 Didn’t Want You To See

The security man outside the Los Angeles Convention Center told me that the powers that be at E3 don’t want any pictures taken of the big show yet. But I took most of these from the sidewalk outside. Nothing from the still-roped-off show floor. So we’re cool?