Something that I have never understood, is the fact that companies let random celebrities get their hands on their yet to be released products. Granted, it gives their product some very good coverage but sometimes, in a case just like this, they get more than they bargained for. For those of you who don’t know him, Jonathan Ross is a …

Project Natal is always an interesting topic of conversation on gaming sites. There is so much speculation surrounding its ability to deliver the goods, largely due to the amount of time it will take for the camera to detect your movement and translate it into the game. MTV have taken the stopwatch to footage of Natal being played in both …

Michael Pachter, videogames industry analyst and man with glasses has given his verdict on the price that Microsoft will charge for Project Natal when it releases at the end of this year. According to Pachter, Microsoft don’t really want to cash in on the sales of Natal but rather find it a lot more important to get it into every …

If Michael Pachter really wants people to stop calling him an Xbot he should maybe shuffle his background around a bit and add in a Wii or PS3 game somewhere, a pile of Xbox 360 games does not fill you with confidence about him being unbiased. In his latest Pach-Attack the grandmaster analyst extraordinaire gives us his opinion on which …

Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg has said that more news regarding Natal will be announced at E3 possibly the final retail name of Microsoft’s motion control peripheral. In an interview with Joystiq, Greenberg confirmed the device’s name was still in codename status, also bizarrely saying  games for it will be considered an “entirely new category.” I’m not sure if shovelware is an …

It’s all in how things are controlled. that’s how Peter Molyneux,  over-hyping grand champion, sees the world. It wasn’t the microprocessor that revolutionised the Pc, according to Molyneux – no, it was the mouse. “IF you’re thinking Natal is going to give you another version of an FPS, you’re just not thinking broadly enough. After all, it was the invention …

Last week there was a plenitude of equivocal speculation – spurred on by floating crosshairs in an image – that bungie’s next Halo game, Halo : Reach would feature motion-based control courtesy of Microsoft’s Project Natal. Any such conjecture can now be firmly put to rest, as bungie have confirmed, rather emphatically, that Halo : Reach will not be using …

According to an inside ninja at Nintendo HQ, in 2007 Nintendo President Satoru Iwata was offered the “opportunity” to acquire the rights to the device that now powers Microsoft’s Project Natal. He turned the offer down for a a few interesting reasons. Although impressed with Israeli company 3dv’s prototype, he wasn’t convinced that it was right for the Nintendo market. …