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Dance Central Returns with Two Player Dance Battles
Harmonix took the stage during Microsoft’s 2011 E3 press conference today to lift the curtain on Dance Central 2, detailing some of the new features coming in the follow-up to the popular Kinect-powered body mover. It’s time for a dance off! Dance Central is a lovely game, but it was obviously pushed out in rather…
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Master Chief Returns with Halo 4 in 2012
A teaser trailer for Halo 4 concluded Microsoft’s E3 news conference today. In it, the series’ longtime hero, Master Chief, awakens from cryonic sleep to the voice of Cortana, calling him by his name. He then grabs Cortana and flees the wreckage a ship hurtling toward some sort of portal. Microsoft’s Don Mattrick said Halo…
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Fable Sequel Brings Magic to Kinect
The next episode of Fable will support Kinect when it releases in 2012. A demonstration of Fable: The Journey at Microsoft’s E3 news conference showed players in a first-person mode, driving a carriage and attacking foes with magic, using different gestures for each spell. “How can we make you feel a hundred times more involved…
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HD Remake of Halo: Combat Evolved Coming November
Widely expected, Microsoft will publish an HD remake of the original Halo on Nov. 15. Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary will feature “seven of the greatest multiplayer maps of all time,” in addition to “the campaign of the decade remade and remastered.
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What is Ghost Recon Future Soldier‘s ‘Gunsmith’?
As was rumored, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will support Kinect, as publisher Ubisoft demonstrated today at the Xbox 360’s E3 news conference. Body tracking and voice command will be features of all Ghost Recon titles going forward, beginning with Future Soldier. Ubisoft showed off a feature called “GunSmith,” through which gamers may examine…
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These are the New Xbox Live Television Features
Let’s face it: the television remote is so yesterday. As anticipated, Xbox Live’s Marc Whitten has taken the stage at Microsoft’s keynote address to describe and promote some of the features we can expect from the company’s new Xbox Live TV functionality. Voice-Controlled No more buttons, no more joysticks. Users will be able to access…
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EA Sports to Offer Kinect Support with FIFA, Madden, Tiger Woods
EA Sports will offer four titles with Kinect support in the coming year, EA Sports president Peter Moore announced at Microsoft’s E3 news conference just now. FIFA, Madden NFL and Tiger Woods PGA Tour will be among the first titles to implement the Xbox 360’s motion control and voice recognition. “Imagine calling audibles from the…
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Kinect Fun Labs Delivers Object Scanning, Life-Like Avatars, Personalized Bobbleheads, and More
Going live on the Xbox 360’s Kinect hub later this morning, Kinect Fun Labs is a series of gadgets that deliver enhanced functionality to Microsoft’s magical camera peripheral, including scanning in your face to create realistic avatars and unrealistic bobbleheads. While the official reveal isn’t happening for another hour and a half, the Xbox.com website…
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Microsoft’s E3 2011 Website Outs Halo 4 and More
Microsoft’s E3 2011 briefing isn’t until 9:30 AM Pacific. Someone forgot to tell the Xbox.com guys that, because for a brief moment around 9:30AM Eastern, fans caught a glimpse of Halo 4 Dance Central 2, Halo 4, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Kinect Star Wars, and more appeared in name only this morning, the links attached…
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Rumor has Microsoft Announcing TV Service at E3
I love the weekends before E3. I’ve worked four. You get everything in the tips jar—yesterday we got one that said Half-Life 2: Episode 3 would be a Wii 2 launch title. It was too earnest to be a troll. Anyway, this one is in heavy circulation and Microsoft has issued a no comment, so…
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Xbox 360 Still Selling Strong, Says Press Release That Guarantees No Xbox 3 at E3
From a Microsoft press release: Microsoft has now sold 55 million Xbox 360 consoles across 38 countries and sales are accelerating. Xbox 360 maintains its lead in the U.S. as the top selling console in 2011, and ten of the past eleven months. In the first four months of 2011, Xbox 360 has seen a…
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Jesus Explains How To Deal With Negative Forum Comments
Sometiumes people say things in internet forums we don’t agree with. In today’s Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter JesusChrist tells us how to deal with these unpleasant situations. Hello my children, I am here to teach you another lesson about the interwebs. When somebody makes a comment that is directed at a company or their…
By Mike Fahey
