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Kinect for Xbox 360 launch: 10th November

August 26, 2010 | Game News | 0 Comments

If you're an Xbox 360 fan, and you're salivating at the prospect of controller-free games and Xbox LIVE entertainment, then you should mark the 10th of November in your calendar. Microsoft has announced that they will launch Kinect for Xbox 360, officially, in Europe, Middle East and Africa, on Wednesday, 10th November. Xbox LIVE and a BIG line up of games on Windows Phone 7, will also launch, ...

StarCraft II : Wings of Liberty

August 2, 2010 | Game News | 0 Comments

At long last. 12 years is a veritable desert between releases, but, finally, it's here. The long-awaited, feverishly-anticipated sequel to the massively popular Blizzard title, was released globally on 27th July. And the good news? Blizzard, wisely, did not mess with the formula too much. In fact, just enough, is the consensus of response and reviews from the gaming world. Four years after the Brood War devastated the Koprulu sector, ...

Apple Trackpad

July 21, 2010 | Accessories | 0 Comments

Here's a confession. From an Apple fanboy. I think Apple's mice are a joke. Anyone who has ever spent any time, feeling like a dork, with a R600 Mighty mouse upside-down on a sheet of clean white printer paper, rolling the scroll-ball round and round to leech the oil/dirt/whatever from the microscopic ball and it's rollers, so that the blessed thing will scroll up and down like it should, knows ...

Microsoft Kinect for xBox 360

July 16, 2010 | Gaming | 0 Comments

Heads up. The "secret" is out. The official branding for Microsoft's project Natal? Microsoft Kinect for xBox 360. Now, we've been talking about Kinect for a while now, so this official branding comes as no surprise, but lets take a closer look at how the technology works. We know that Kinect uses a multi-sensor strategy to track a ton of 3D ...

Sony’s Playstation Move(s) In

July 2, 2010 | Game News | 0 Comments

OK, well now it's just all-out war in the game-console-with-motion-sensing-controller-or-camera land. It's always been a lucrative, dog-eat-dog space, but the arrival of some competitors for the Nintendo Wii has just kicked the intensity up a couple of notches. Microsoft and Sony have woken from their slumbers, taken while the Wii forged ahead, and both produced their own, get-off-the-couch controllers. Microsoft is betting on the Kinect (ouch!) for the Xbox ...