Earlier this morning I spotted a video on N4G entitled “GameTrailers: Kinect Physics Demo Not Impressive” which is currently lighting up the site but something’s amiss. So while this video is interesting and available below let us try spot why this is a complete fanboy article. First up, the article implies that GameTrailers are saying that Kinect’s physics is bad, …

Microsoft confirmed today that Kinect will only work with 3 languages when it launches in November; English, Japanese and Mexican Spanish, meaning the peripheral will turn a deaf ear should you happen to speak any other language. It’ll be a good few months until support for other languages to be supported. If you’re thinking, “Hey, I speak English..this isn’t going …

According to Kudo “Bam, there it is!” Tsunoda, Kinect is capable of true 1:1 tracking – and that the system’s response time is now “as fast as pushing a button.” How did Microsoft’s Kinect team reach that conclusion? Why, Science, of course! Last Updated: September 1, 2010

It’s finally bloody Friday. It’s been a heck of a long, trying week – and the nasty strikes in the education and health sectors haven’t made the week any more pleasant. Besides drinking yourselves in to a stupor, what are you planning to do this weekend? Nick’s off to the Drakensberg with his lovely wife, presumably to spend the weekend …

While Microsoft are hell-bent on broadening the appeal of their console with the casual fare presented by their full-body flailing peripheral, Kinect, they have reassured Xbox 360 owners that they’re still committed to the core audience, “I know there’s a lot of controversy over, are you turning your back on the core gamer? Are you just focused on the Wii …

Ok, so here’s an update that I didn’t really expect to see. To be honest, it’s more that I just never really thought about it. The voice quality over Xbox Live has never been great, heck… when I think about it, it actually took me a while to understand what people were even saying when I first got my Xbox …

So today Gavin let people know via Twitter that we may be interested in taking on a new writer for some expansion, promising money and free games (terms, conditions, your pants and your soul may apply). For some strange reason, a lot of people liked the idea of getting money and free games, so keep a look out for a …

Microsoft and Sony are both expecting – and probably holding thumbs, hoping – that their soon to be released motion-sensing peripherals will increase the longevity of their consoles, which when compared to the graphical fidelity of high-end PC’s – are beginning to show their age. Ubisoft’s Alain Corre doesn’t think so, saying he expects them to bring only a short-term …