Confirming unofficial reports last week which at the time seemed almost too good to be true, Microsoft has now put up an offer on the Microsoft Store website for an Xbox 360 + Kinect bundle for a mere US $99.
Another bold themed Xbox 360 bundle pack is just around the corner which is all about the UK. In timely fashion for the Olympics in London (although Microsoft aren't directly linking it to this), Microsoft's upcoming Xbox 360 Celebration Pack will hit shelves donned with the Union Flag on the console itself, the bundled Kinect sensor and the wireless controller.
Following an announcement pertaining to its latest financial results, Satoru Iwata, the leader of Nintendo has made a statement that directly indicates the company's intention to withhold information on the launch date and pricing for its next-gen Wii U home console while at E3 2012.
Microsoft is considering additional uses outside of gaming for its Kinect motion tracking technology, including the potential as a home security camera and for tracking facial expressions on TV viewers.
An article over at Forbes suggests that Sony is looking to drop NVIDIA in favour of AMD as the GPU of choice in its next-gen PlayStation 4 gaming console. A former AMD employee has apparently come forward and revealed that AMD is involved in development on a new Sony system.
Microsoft might launch an Xbox TV in the future, which could be its contribution to the eight generation of gaming consoles or an entirely new product altogether, with gaming occuring on the cloud.
Keen to get some hands-on time with Sony's PlayStation Vita hand-held before it hits shelves on the 22nd Feb? - A press release issued out from GameStop on the weekend lets us know that if you're based in the U.S. you'll be able to do just that to help finalize your purchasing decision. How? Just waltz on in to a GameStop retail store.
Thanks to the Guinness Book of World Records we often get to hear about or see some pretty staggering events take place as people continue to be driven by the desire to achieve something never before been done that becomes recognized worldwide. A bunch of students from the Netherlands have added themselves to the list by building a "fully functional" NES controller that is in fact the largest video game controller in the world.
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Love hanging out on YouTube regularly to stay up to speed with the gaming side of things? There is of course the likes of IGN and G4 with frequent updates to their channels, but there's some really good stuff hiding in between which most people probably aren't even aware of.
Have you pre-ordered The Darkness II yet? 2K Games has announced that all pre-orders in Singapore will be entitled to a free upgrade to exclusive Asia limited steel book edition of the first-person shooter game.
Microsoft's Kinect for the Xbox 360 has without a doubt been a huge success for the company and it looks as if Microsoft is working on a new, much more advanced version of Kinect to go with its next gen console which is expected to be announced sometime next year. Sadly the rumour mill doesn't offer a lot of details, but we're apparently looking at something quite a bit more advanced than the current Kinect.
Several years ago, Microsoft's Halo was the first game to reach the 100 million US dollar sale on the opening weekend. Today, the video games are challenging and beating blockbuster movies on their opening days. Case in point - Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part I.
At this year Tokyo Game Show, peripheral maker Razer has announced co-development program with the arcade stick community to come up with the ultimate arcade stick for the Microsoft Xbox 360 game console. Beta testing of the prototype will commence soon.
At the Tokyo Game Show 2011 press conference today, Sony Computer Entertainment has announced the limited edition "Splash Blue" and "Scarlet Red" of their popular PlayStation 3 game console. Both new editions will be available from 17 November 2011.
The Razer Hydra PC Gaming Motion Sensing Controller, much like the recent deluge of alternative input gadgets like Microsoft’s Kinect and Sony’s PlayStation Move, allow for immersive three-dimensional interaction in rich in-game virtual environments. We at the VR-Zone Enrichment Centre take a quick first look at this futuristic magnetic field powered contraption, and after intensive testing with expandable human test subjects of varying intelligence and dexterity in devious scenarios, present our findings later in a full review... for science!
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