Tag Archive: Kinect

Oct 13

NYCC 12: Talk of the Town: Avengers: Battle for Earth

At New York Comic Con this weekend, I got to go hands on (or hands off, do people still make those jokes?) with Marvel’s Avengers: Battle for Earth on the Kinect. The game could best be described as an team-based, arena fighter based on my limited time with the demo. In it, you can play …

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Mar 04

Fable: The Journey Screenshots Leaked…by Microsoft [Updated]

Update: It seems The Journey is not the only Fable leak outed by the Xbox Live Marketplace today, as an apparent XBLA board game titled Fable Heroes is also featured in the web portal [this one comes via Joystiq]. Original Story: Looks like the GDC cat’s out of the bag early again! Just after Microsoft reportedly …

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Jul 30

State of Gaming ’11: The Xbox Brand

I originally wrote a piece on the State of Microsoft Gaming just under a year ago. A year later, I felt it was time to re-evaluate Microsoft’s position. What has changed in the past 12 months? What rights have been wronged? What wrongs have sprung to life?       As I said a year ago, I …

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Jun 13

Dual Wielding: Post e3 2011 Special

E3 has come and gone, the biggest week in gaming is over, and we sit back and reflect upon all the big news from the show. Did it leave it up to expectations? Who made the best showing? What stuck out in our mind? And who really hated the orchestra? Only one way to find …

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Jun 06

Microsoft at E3 2011

Instead of bogging down the site with tons of content, we’ll offer our readers a simple recap/links to the major announcements for each of the big 3 press conference. Microsoft is the first one up, and it seems like they have quite the line-up balancing Kinect titles while leveraging some of their core IP into …

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May 16

Dual Wielding 32: Something Borrowed

As the countdown to e3 commences, we focus on one of the big 3′s expectations this year starting with Microsoft. The company with the least known factors, but the one expected to wow us the least. What does their press event hold for the future of the Xbox and Kinect? In addition, there is a …

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Apr 09

Review Shooter: Carnival Games: Monkey See, Monkey Do.

(This review was submitted to us by Shawn S. ) When the Wii first launched I was excited for most every new game that came out, eager to see what innovative and physically engaging new experiences developers had created. Years later, I’ve mostly given up on Nintendo’s hardware but I’ve fallen into that same whimsical …

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Mar 14

Dual Wielding 24: PokeMarch to PAX

This week on Dual Wielding, Adam Share (GamersCast Podcast) joins us to talk about all the late breaking news from PAX! And when we discuss there is none we move on. In whatcha been playing, Pokefever has gripped us all and we spend a great deal of time talking about the latest entries Pokemon Black …

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Jan 15

Kinect Has Hacks Galore

Check out these Xbox 360 Kinect Hacks which were performed on PC by homebrew hackers, no sorry these are not available to play officially on your Xbox (take it up with Microsoft).

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Dec 28

Holiday Wrap-Up: Dance Central Gifting!

The eggnog has been stored for another year. Everyone is trying to get rid of the leftover fruitcakes. And if you live in Eastern United States, you are probably covered in snow at the moment, but the holiday season doesn’t end on December 25th (well technically it goes until New Year’s, but bare with me) …

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