[Official Press Release received earlier… now you know as much as we do] South Africa — July 20, 2010 — Microsoft Corp. today announced an all-in-one opportunity to jump into the controller-free fun of Kinect coming this Christmas: the all-new Xbox 360 4GB console, the revolutionary Kinect sensor and “Kinect Adventures” will be packaged together and priced at R3699.99 Estimated …

So Microsoft has finally announced the official Kinect pricing which we posted about earlier as well as belatedly announcing that they will be releasing an Arcade version of their upcoming Xbox 360 S. As a quick sidenote, Microsoft themselves don’t recognise the Xbox 360 S moniker and refer to either the 250 GB Xbox 360 or 4GB Xbox 360. Last …

After months of seeing the placeholder price tag of $149.95 being thrown around by websites and retailers alike we can finally confirm that the official price just announced by Microsoft is $149.95. So, no surprise there and Microsoft obviously feel that the Internet backlash to that price tag is an acceptable price to pay and that the mainstream are going …

Microsoft’s Kinect has already raked in a lot of criticism from the citizens of the internet due to some serious shortcomings which have made themselves apparent from the get-go. The folks over at GamesRadar have made an incredibly handy visual guide that lets you know what Kinect does and does not expect from you when using the device. It’s an …

We have mentioned previously that the Kinect motion controller camera system thingy already has issues detecting people who are sitting down. This becomes a problem in the world of lazy-ass people like us. What about lying down though? I saw some news flying around the internet about Kinect having serious issues with people lying down, and it reminded me of …

Nick Burton, a director over at Rare, has been speaking at Develop about his experience with Kinect and has passed over a golden nugget of information. According to Nick there are 12 ways to navigate a 3D world using Kinect and while some of them are not entirely practical they do still work. Last Updated: July 15, 2010

Sorcery is easily my most anticipated PlayStation Move game, it was the only one at E3 (apart from the bundled sports game) that really looked like it added something special to a game. It’s also a PlayStation exclusive which meant that future Kinect users were already sulking in their Kellogg’s about not getting it. However EA are about to save …

Some images of what appears to be the first screenshots of the new XBox 360 dashboard have popped up on the internet and show a new Kinect-enabled layout as well as the Kinect setup screen. The new interface looks a lot simpler than the current one, with a much less-3D look going for it. Will this be a Kinect specific …