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Child of Eden Sweetens the Kinect Sensor Bundle
In case you were still on the fence about dropping $150 on Microsoft’s magical camera stick, the company today announced that the bundle is getting updated to include a download code for a free copy of sensual shooter Child of Eden Not that Kinect Adventures wasn’t enough of a hardware mover, but one can only…
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Gears of War 3 Season Pass Available at Launch
Gears of War 3 comes out so soon we can almost see it. Yes on September 20 you’ll get back to chainsawing through Locusts and friends alike. But also available at launch will be the Gears of War 3 season pass. Priced at 2400 Microsoft points, the pass gives holders access to the first four…
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Kinect Star Wars Won’t Be Home for Christmas
What might have been the perfect Christmas gift for the Star Wars gamer will have to find another special occasion to be gifted on, as Microsoft confirms that Star Wars Kinect and the Star Wars themed Xbox 360 have been pushed back indefinitely. It started off bad and got a little better, but Star Wars…
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Kinect was Tested by Dropping It on Concrete
The Microsoft engineers building Kinect “knew this thing was going to be viewed as a toy,” says one, “and so it was going to be abused.” So they abused it first, toughening the thing up to the point it could be dropped on concrete and still function. Now, it’s not said how high of a…
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Clever Xbox Live User Sues Microsoft for $500 Billion (or 625,000,000,000 MS Points)
Some cletus down in Arkansas opines that Microsoft has to pay him $500 billion because it didn’t answer, in writing, a mailing designed to not get a written response to his demands for $500 billion. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is your source for all the fun, courtesy of a federal civil complaint filed Monday by one…
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360 Cases Now a Matte Finish Going Forward, Microsoft Clarifies
Earlier it was reported that a matte finish was coming to the Xbox 360 250GB hard drive configuration, and that is indeed true, but some construed that to mean the glossy case still would be in production. It ain’t. Matte 250GB slims will arrive on shelves in the coming weeks, writes the Xbox community manager…
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Class Action Lawsuit Accuses Microsoft of Double-Billing Xbox Live Subscriptions
Microsoft must defend its Xbox Live billing policies in a class action lawsuit filed this week in Indiana. Plaintiff Ryan Graves says he was double-charged for a subscription under “vague and onerous terms of use” for the console service membership. Graves says that his Xbox Live subscription lapsed when he didn’t update his credit card…
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Kinect Fun Labs Adding “Air Band” Soon
Kinect Fun Labs, the free-to-download toys for Xbox Live Arcade (and Kinect) that have delivered optimized avatar generation and zany object animation (but not advanced penis recognition heuristics) look to be joined by an air-band application getting you and your friends in on a pantomime jam session. Germany’s ratings board has passed judgment on “Air…
By Owen Good
