Kinect Sports Rivals' twisted take on motion-controlled athletic competition drops April 8 in North America, Australia and New Zealand, April 11 in Europe. Help its colorful characters triumph at climbing, wake racing, target shooting, soccer, tennis and bowling in lovely 1080p.

Kinect Sports Rivals, the third edition of the Kinect Sports franchise from Rare, will be coming to Xbox One this holiday season. Jet-ski races, rock climbing, bowling, target shooting, tennis and soccer were among the activities shown for the game.

It's not often I get to proclaim myself an athlete, and today isn't going to change that, but I will say that I owned the shit out of my computer-controlled opponents today in Kinect Sports Season Two.

And that music, ungh! If you've ever wanted to see Japanese people playing Kinect in a large living room, here's your chance. Enjoy.

This coming weekend, Stephen, Joel and I are going to be heading to Seattle for PAX—we'll be fighting our way around the show floor, taking pictures of as much crazy stuff as possible, playing a whole lot of upcoming games, including... well, including baseball.

"Xbox," I say, "Streak 20," and the huddle breaks. My quarterback trots up to the line. I instinctively half-squat and reach out my hands, placing them under the giant rear end of an invisible lineman. "Hike!"

Can you believe the hype you hear from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo at each year's big E3 circus of video games? Year after year, the big three make promises about their consoles and their games. Do they deliver?

Hey Europe, this weekend, the class system that normally divides Xbox Live between paying and non-paying subscribers is being torn down.

Interested in the idea of Kinect Sports more than the rather basic game released last year? Maybe Kinect Sports 2 will do a better job.

In Sweden, a team of cops stormed a couple's home after a neighbor reported that five people were beating the crap out of a woman. Turns out they were all playing boxing on Kinect Sports.

Colorado mother Nikki Harding went 35 years without breaking a single bone. Then she bought Kinect for the Xbox 360.

Kinect gamers get a free download pack for Kinect Sports today courtesy of Samsung.

Rare has built and launched a Kinect Sports application for Facebook, which will keep track of players' league results, allow them to issue invitations and be invited to others, and collect video highlights in a single place.

The Xbox 360's Kinect launched today with more than a dozen games. We played through half a dozen of them.

The Xbox 360 finally has its motion-based sports game. Packed with six sports, ten if you include all of the events of track and field, Kinect Sports drops you controller-free into an eclectic mix of athleticism.

I finally got my first chance to go hands-on with Kinect today, and I wasn't allowed to use my hands.

Kinect Sports comes packed with more than half-a-dozen ways to play, but my limited time with the game only gave me a chance to check out one of them: Bowling.

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?