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Kinect Sees 2.5 Million Sales In 25 Days
It took ten days for Microsoft’s Kinect to hit one million sales. Now Microsoft reveals that the device has sold 2.5 million units in 25 days. This can only mean one thing: Someone is buying 100,000 Kinects a day. It’s either that, or Kinect is simply selling at a relatively steady rate. The latest numbers…
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Kinect Hacked To Play Super Mario Bros.
This unholy marriage of Microsoft technology and Nintendo software comes from Yankeyan, who probably just gave Shigeru Miyamoto an inspiration for the Wii’s next exergaming title. Yankeyan programmed this with OpenKinect drivers and Nintendo emulation, so that Kinect recognized his motions and virtual button presses onto the emulator. “I could have placed a simulated keypad…
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Sony Dev Rips Kinect Star Wars — And Outs Move Lightsaber Game?
A top engineer for the PlayStation Move backhanded Kinect’s upcoming Star Wars game as “scripted,” called its notorious E3 demo “faked,” and said a Star Wars Move game will “be damn better than Kinect’s.” Such a game hasn’t been announced. “I’m usually not very aggressive,” said Anton Mikhailov to Eurogamer. He then proceeded to be…
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Halo Wars Goes Dark On Dec. 15
Barely two years after its release, Microsoft is pulling the plug on Halo Wars on Dec. 15, axing leaderboards and stat-tracking as well as the forums. Fans of the real-time strategy game are not pleased. The community was informed of this on Tuesday. They were told they’d be “transitioning … to Halo Waypoint’s forums,” which…
By Owen Good
