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PS4 Sold Twice As Well As Xbox One, Microsoft Reveals

PS4 Sold Twice As Well As Xbox One, Microsoft Reveals

New court docs out of Brazil reveal that the PS4 was far more successful than the Xbox One

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PublishedAugust 15, 2022

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Report: Microsoft Kinect Creator Resigns After Being Accused Of Watching ‘VR Porn’ At Work

Report: Microsoft Kinect Creator Resigns After Being Accused Of Watching ‘VR Porn’ At Work

Alex Kipman is known as one of Microsoft’s ‘golden boys,’ executives who’ve been ‘untouchable’ for years

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PublishedJune 8, 2022

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In Twenty Years, Microsoft Has Only Sold 2.3 Million Xboxes In Japan

Kotaku EastJapan

In Twenty Years, Microsoft Has Only Sold 2.3 Million Xboxes In Japan

The Xbox 360 remains Microsoft's biggest seller in the country

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PublishedMarch 7, 2022

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CultureOdds and Ends

Final Fantasy XIV Player Literally Dabs On Boss With Kinect

DPS? More like “dances per second,” am I right? Is that anything?

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PublishedSeptember 28, 2021

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QA Testing Games Like <i>Dance Central</i> Is Apparently Grueling And Smelly

CultureOdds and Ends

QA Testing Games Like Dance Central Is Apparently Grueling And Smelly

The perils of doing QA testing for Just Dance, Rock Band, and Ring Fit

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PublishedSeptember 1, 2021

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Grand Theft Auto V Kinect Mod Makes Plane-Flying Physical

Flying in video games with a controller is fine. It works well enough and it’s how many folks play. But what if you w…

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PublishedAugust 10, 2020

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YouTuber Uses Kinect Mod To Play <i>Mario 64</i> With A Trampoline

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YouTuber Uses Kinect Mod To Play Mario 64 With A Trampoline

It turns out using motion controls to make Mario jump is hard work.

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PublishedJuly 14, 2020

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Report: Contractors Have Listened To Inadvertently Recorded Audio From Xbox Owners' Homes

Report: Contractors Have Listened To Inadvertently Recorded Audio From Xbox Owners' Homes

Microsoft contractors working on Xbox have gained access to audio recordings of Xbox owners’ home life, a Vice…

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Cecilia D'Anastasio

PublishedAugust 21, 2019

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8/8/19

Kinect may be dead as a video gaming peripheral, but its technological uses live on. The latest example is in Sydney, where it’s being used to help control the speed and frequency of train boardings.

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PublishedAugust 8, 2019

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5/7/18

Kinect is alive again, sort of. Microsoft announced last fall it would no longer be manufacturing the Xbox peripheral, but now it’s back as...Project Kinect for Azure? The dev kit uses Kinect sensors and cloud computing to help people do new things with AI, like one day make Cortana for real.

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PublishedMay 7, 2018

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10/25/17

Kinect Is Officially Dead

First dead in our hearts, and now dead at the manufacturing plant, the Kinect is no longer in production.…

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Cecilia D'Anastasio

PublishedOctober 25, 2017

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9/20/16

Body-Bending Video Game Perfect Woman Critiques Female Stereotypes

Womanhood can be a contortion act. Prospering is often a matter of stretching, compressing and jaggedly…

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Cecilia D'Anastasio

PublishedSeptember 20, 2016

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7/15/16

Let's Play Fru, A New Kinect Game That's Actually Good

Folks, the Kinect lives! A new platformer called Fru just came out for the Xbox One’s motion sensor. It uses the…

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PublishedJuly 15, 2016

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7/6/16

Meet The Developers Who Are Still Making A Kinect Game

When Microsoft unbundled Kinect from the Xbox One in 2014, it was the beginning of the end. Unfortunately for the…

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PublishedJuly 6, 2016

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3/10/16

Kinect Involved In Ancient Egypt Kerfuffle

Last year, a pair of German artists claimed to have “stolen” scans of a priceless bust of Queen Nefertiti—housed in…

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PublishedMarch 10, 2016

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12/15/15

I Still Love My Kinect

In a home filled with technological marvels of all shapes and sizes, one piece of oft-derided hardware gets more…

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PublishedDecember 15, 2015

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2/15/15

Kinect Is Teaching Cops Some Sweet Beatdown Moves

So Microsoft's Kinect was a video gaming bust. Whatever. It's still got its uses. Like...helping police work on…

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PublishedFebruary 15, 2015

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2/5/15

Someone Got Mike Tyson's Punch-Out Running On Kinect

Even though Microsoft appears to have given up on Kinect as a serious gaming platform, the motion device still has…

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PublishedFebruary 5, 2015

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1/5/15

Two Interesting Things We Learned From The Xbox One Software Leak

Internal developer documentation for the Xbox One appears to have leaked on the Internet—and after scanning through…

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PublishedJanuary 5, 2015

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10/28/14

Being Scottish With An Xbox One Is A Daily Struggle

But only if you want to use Kinect.

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Mark Serrels

PublishedOctober 28, 2014

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