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