Xbox

Microsoft’s Furry Kinect Mascots Take A Trip To Apple Land

Once the poster loveable wild animals for Microsoft’s motion-sensing Kinect peripheral, the Kinectimals now appear to be feline ambassadors of goodwill to the iPad and iPhone. How very odd.


December 2, 2011
Xbox

Kinectimals Isn’t Cute, It’s Terrifying

You might think Microsoft’s Kinectimals (actually developed by the guys who made Lostwinds), is for kids. It’s all cuddles and sunshine. Nunh unh. It’s a killer.


November 9, 2011
Mobile

The Windows Phone/Xbox 360 Cross-Compatibility You Crave

If you eagerly snatched up a Windows Phone 7 when they launched last year, dreaming of a mobile applications that allowed you to extend your Xbox 360 games beyond the television set, then this is the app for you, only it’s Kinectimals.


July 27, 2011
Xbox

You Know What Kinectimals Needs? Bears

Kinect launch title Kinectimals was a fine showcase for Microsoft’s motion-sensing technology, but it was all about cat. They should have just called it Kinecticats. This problem, like many others, has been fixed via liberal application of bears.


May 25, 2011
Xbox

One Year Later, Did Microsoft Keep Their E3 2010 Promises?

Can you believe the hype you hear from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo at each year’s big E3 circus of video games? Year after year, the big three make promises about their consoles and their games. Do they deliver?


January 19, 2011
In Real Life

A Bird? A Plane? No, Flying Animals On China’s Kinect!

This year, China is releasing a new controller-free gaming console. New for China, that is, as the world already played this when it was called Kinect.


December 14, 2010
News

This Is Definitely Not A Tease For Kinectimals 2

This cake featuring a crashed Air Force One is based on a game David Braben’s Frontier Developments is making. Their most recent work was the toss-frisbees-at-cute-tigers game Kinectimals. But could this be Braben’s reminder of something thought lost, something cooler?


November 17, 2010
In Real Life

My Cat’s Impressions Of Kinectimals

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My cat has co-starred in a number of stories I’ve posted about Microsoft’s Kinect in the past couple of weeks, mostly by accident. She likes prowling through our house, making cameo appearances in videos I shoot. Not with Kinectimals, though.


November 5, 2010

This Kinect Game Has Halo Surprises

The Halo franchise has infiltrated a Kinect launch game. What kind of gesture-controlled Halo are we talking about? Video spoilers below.


The Many Reviews Of Kinect And Its Games

The Xbox 360′s Kinect launched today with more than a dozen games. We played through half a dozen of them.