Think the Kinect is a passing fad, with the fact that it just happens to be a camera that manages to track almost every move you make and could have potential gaming applications to it? Well, it might not be as Microsoft has announced that the Kinect has sold one million units just in the past ten days.
Today I was very lucky to have an preview and play with the Xbox Kinect – A unique, controller free, full body gaming revolution. Released this coming Thursday the 18th of November, along with 15 game titles, this truly was such a great experience.
Remember last month when Gran Turismo 5 was delayed again? Ah, good times.
Well, have we got some news for you! Sony Computer Entertainment Australia has just updated the release date from 3 November 2010, which it missed, to Thursday, 25 November 2010.
Microsoft is upping its sales expectations of the Kinect, which had its official press launch yesterday, to five million units sold before the end of Fall, in part of the strong response of pre-order sales just before the upcoming Holiday Shopping Season.
With declining demand for the Nintendo Wii and the delay of the highly-praised Nintendo 3DS to next year rather than sometime before the big Holiday Shopping season, Nintendo has posted a net loss during the April-September financial period, the first net loss in the last seven years.
While the Wii started this crazy phase, Sony and Microsoft have waited years to perfect their own solutions – and they come out this year. Sony, however, has gotten theirs out of the gate first with their PLAYSTATION MOVE, using the magical wand-like controller to interact with the game.
PS3 users can now celebrate, the NetFlix experience you know and love is becoming diskless and better than anything on the market. Starting on October 18th, Netflix will be streaming 1080p and 5.1 surround sound content straight to your PS3. NetFlix are also partnering with Dolby to introduce Dolby Digital Plus which will make your movies sound fantastic.
The PlayStation.Blog US & EU has just confirmed that Gran Turismo 5 will not be available on November 3. While this is extremely disappointing to Gran Turismo fans, they are saying that it will be released before Christmas. Still, I wouldn’t hold my breath.
While the Windows Phone 7 announcement doesn’t happen until 9:30am San Francisco time – just under a few hours – LG has accidentally leaked its Windows Phone 7 phone it will be releasing soon before taking it down – but a Google cache and the images are still uploaded on the server.
Spending hours trying to get a Pikachu in those grass areas of the long-running Pokemon series? Well, you can now ditch your Nintendo DS as now you can build your own with LEGO blocks. And that is what Filip Johannes Felberg has done, posting his creations on Flickr.
Yes, we know. We’re a little late. But here is our PlayStation Move Unboxing. We were very excited when our PlayStation Move arrived. So we cracked out our camera and took some shots of us unboxing it. If you like to see things taken out of boxes, read on. Otherwise, look out for our review of the hardware soon.
Today 7PLUS, the TV catch-up service from Yahoo7, has been launched for the PlayStation 3. Users can now access the PS3 optimised website straight from the PlayStation 3′s Xross Media Bar. This is the second catch-up service, and first for the commercial stations, to be launched for the PlayStation 3, ABC’s iView being the first.
Playstation had previously announced eariler this week that Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood multiplayer beta would avaliable in October 4th. However, today in the Playstation Europe Blog announced that Playstation Plus members would have early access to the beta, avaliable on September 27th. Currently it is unknown if this early access to the online beta will be available to the US, as Playstation US have yet to announce it.
Media Molecule, the creators of LittleBigPlanet 2 have announced today that the highly awaited game will be delayed till January 2011. Earlier this year at Comic-con, the creators had announced that the game would be release in November on the 17th worldwide, as well as information about the Collector’s Edition of the game.
If you have an Xbox 360 and get excited by software updates listen up! Major Nelson has just announced on his blog that the Xbox Live dashboard update, which is launching with the Kinect later this year, is now accepting early registrations for testing. Read More »
