CES 2012: Microsoft Announces Kinect for Windows

At CES 2012, Microsoft finally announced that it was bringing the Kinect to Windows. The Xbox 360 version of the Kinect has reportedly shipped over 18 million units to date. That’s not surprising. The silent-but-massive casual player fanbase is absolutely in love with the device.

What makes the creation of a Windows-centric device interesting is how much attention Microsoft is paying to the ever-growing Kinect modding community.  These dedicated fans have been hard at work, tweaking the existing Kinect hardware to function far beyond its official capabilities. Modders have found ways to use it to play non-supported titles, such as Skyrim. Fashion designers have used it as part of their shows. Microsoft even has a campaign that shows the Kinect helping stroke and brain injury patients in rehabilitation centers. Basically, modders have made the Xbox 360’s Kinect a far more functional device.

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Golgothoughts – Has Microsoft ever used Kinect?

The Kinect is an interesting piece of tech. It shoots out lasers (over 9000!) to find the distance from your Dorito-crusted gut hair to the depths of your belly button. It makes your hands glow purple so you can give yourself a wizard-job on camera. It even allows you to post flattering poses of yourself playing stupid games to your favorite social network (MySpace foreva!!). It can’t do any of these things though, if you put a FUCKING SWEATBAND OVER THE LASER CASTING EYE. Jesus Microsoft, how much do you pay your ad firms to make you look like you don’t know how your products work?

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PSA: NEW New NXE Available Now!

Happy Dashboard Day! The newest revision to the Xbox 360 UI is available now after a brief delay this morning. Sticking with Microsoft’s new Metro obsession, get ready for page after page of flattened tiles, complete with nestled ads and a wide array of various sized boxes. If you’ve got a Windows Phone or the Windows 8 beta, you should feel right at home in box country.

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Review – Fruit Ninja Kinect

Fruit Ninja is one of those simple, yet highly addictive iPhone games that people will play for hours on end and then deny even owning. For many people, myself included at times, it’s tough to admit when a casual game has its hooks in you. Halfbrick Studios wowed us with Raskulls during XBLA Games for the Holidays, but can Fruit Ninja Kinect, basically an iPhone port, hang with the likes of Bastion or Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet during the Summer of Arcade?

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E3 2011 – 505 Games

We got a chance to sit down with 505 Games and check out their latest projects — Michael Phelps: Push the Limit (Kinect), Grease (Kinect), Top Gun: Hard Lock, Supremacy MMA, Backbreaker Vengeance, and Blackwater (Kinect). Impressions after the break.

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Golgocast S02E22 – Tales of the Two-Trick Pony

Welcome to another glorious episode of Golgocast! This week Mr. Hawkins takes the gang on a journey through the past, present, and future of video game tedium. NamelessTed, Scott Meaney, and good ole Mr. Pharisee talk about the 3DS lameness, Brink‘s lack of luster, L.A. Noire expectations, Xperia Play and the fools that bought it, MW3, Kinect, Square-Enix, and much more — all with a slight echo-o-o!

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Gunstringer Interview and Impressions

Mr. Pharisee scored an interview with Jay Stuckwisch of Twisted Pixel about their new Kinect game, Gunstringer. Does Twisted Pixel come through or are they just pulling our strings?

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