Kinect Archive

  • “Fus Ro” and 200 Other Voice Commands Will Soon Make Skyrim Better With Kinect

    “Fus Ro” and 200 Other Voice Commands Will Soon Make Skyrim Better With Kinect

    Microsoft’s “Better With Kinect” marketing tagline will soon apply to fantasy role-playing epic The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda Softworks today announcing plans to bring Kinect Voice Command integration to the Xbox 360 platform via a free title update later this month. The update will […]

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  • Cooperative Vertical Tank Battles Introduced in Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor

    Cooperative Vertical Tank Battles Introduced in Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor

    Slowly but surely, every game I’ve been wanting to sell me on buying a Kinect has released to horrible results. Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor is one of the last shimmering rays of hope on the horizon, mainly because it’s not dumbing down a traditional gameplay […]

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  • Review: Diabolical Pitch

    Review: Diabolical Pitch

    Diabolical Pitch is like that wild ‘n’ crazy rookie pitching prospect, the guy with the sick breaking ball that no batter can seem to touch. You bring him up to the majors for the Big Game—or in this case download him to your Xbox 360 […]

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  • How to Pilot a Vertical Tank in Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor

    How to Pilot a Vertical Tank in Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor

    Presented in the form of an instructional video, Capcom and FromSoftware’s latest trailer for Kinect tank battle game Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor teaches the ins and outs of piloting a VT (Vertical Tank). Armed with a stock Xbox 360 pad and a Kinect full-body tracking […]

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  • EA Launches Tiger Woods 13 With a Kinect Lifestyle Demonstration

    EA Launches Tiger Woods 13 With a Kinect Lifestyle Demonstration

    Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 putts onto store shelves this week, the Xbox 360 version getting top billing as EA Sports launches its latest golf sim with a Kinect-focused lifestyle trailer demonstrating how the game implements full-body, controller-free, voice-enabled mechanics for the first time in […]

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  • Kinect Star Wars Play Modes Overview

    Kinect Star Wars Play Modes Overview

    Kinect Star Wars is shaping up to be a grab bag of motion-control activities from a galaxy far, far away. Parts of it appear to be good fun. Other parts, ummm…not so much. This latest developer video provides a broader view and description for the […]

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  • Kinect Rush Embarks on a Disney•Pixar Adventure This Week

    Kinect Rush Embarks on a Disney•Pixar Adventure This Week

    Quietly launching this week for Xbox 360 Kinect, Kinect Rush: A Disney•Pixar Adventure brings motion-control gaming to the whole family in the form of fun activities based on classic Disney•Pixar films, including The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Up, Cars and Toy Story. Players will use their bodies […]

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  • Screenshot Saturday: Sorcery, Starhawk, Spider-Man, BF3 DLC & More

    Screenshot Saturday: Sorcery, Starhawk, Spider-Man, BF3 DLC & More

    Happy Saturday, folks. We’re back with another weekend screenshot round-up for your perusal! Some cool stuff to check out, too. We’ve got pics of Sony’s awesome-looking PlayStation Move title, Sorcery. Plus shots of other PS3 exclusives like Starhawk and the long-awaited Ratchet & Clank Collection […]

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  • Pod Racing, Jedi Dueling and Stormtrooper Dancing in Kinect Star Wars

    Pod Racing, Jedi Dueling and Stormtrooper Dancing in Kinect Star Wars

    On branding alone, Kinect Star Wars has garnered a lot of hype and attention, despite looking consistently lousy in every trailer, gameplay clip and stage demo it’s ever appeared in. Star Wars fans simply cannot stop the nostalgic yearning for a true motion-control lightsaber combat […]

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  • Screenshot Saturday: GDC 2012 Edition

    Screenshot Saturday: GDC 2012 Edition

    Hey VGB readers. It’s Saturday, and another videogame event is in the books. That means it’s time for the return of Screenshot Saturday. It’s been too long, I know! Screenshots have been rolling in throughout the week–Game Developers Conference 2012 week–and below you’ll find over […]

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