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Microsoft Hints At A Very Different Future For Xbox Gaming. Plus: What Are EA And Activision Up To?
Editor’s Note: If people in the gaming industry really wanted to hide stuff, they’re going to have to do better. The one and only Superannuation keeps digging stuff up that just has to be shared with Kotaku readers. Today, we’re looking to the future… a very weird future that has Microsoft, EA and Activision making games you probably weren’t expecting.
Microsoft’s New Game Doesn’t Exactly Instill Confidence In Kinect’s Tech
One of Microsoft’s big Christmas season Kinect games, Fable: The Journey, came out today. As our reviewer notes, it’s not very good, because Microsoft’s popular Kinect sensor often fails to properly detect the movement of the player trying to control the game.
Fable: The Journey: The Kotaku Review
Did you ever go to school with a kid that was way too into horses? Like, waaaaaay too into horses? I’m talking about the kind of kid who has horse posters on the wall, a horse lunchbox and a horse backpack. Because Fable: The Journey feels like a game made by and for that kid. Throw in janky, motion-controlled combat, and you get the most horrifyingly confusing entry in the series to date.
Fable Finally Feels Intense, But It’s The Horse That Made Me Care
Forget the hero of Albion. Theresa — a prophetic seer who has appeared in all the previous Fable games — is not only hundreds of years old, but she likes to orchestrate things from the shadows. A character who commands true intrigue. She has visions of the future, but her motivations are always unclear. A mystery woman. This time around, Lionhead Studios promises that we’ll finally get to learn more about her, which may be reason enough for Fable fans to try out the Kinect-controlled Fable: The Journey.
Watch The Fable: The Journey Team Tell A Story About Telling The Story
The dev team at Lionhead Studios have shared a behind-the-scenes look at the story of their upcoming Kinect title Fable: The Journey. While early demonstrations of the game didn’t go very well, by this year’s E3 Kotaku‘s own Stephen Totilo found the demo to be a good experience.
Fable: The Journey Just Might Be The Second-Best Kinect Game
There are 19 million Kinects in the wild and very few good games to play on them. I think most people will say that Dance Central is the best (partially because it seems to work more than 75 per cent of the time). What’s second best?
The Best Fake Peter Molyneux Twitter Account Is Back, Go Follow It
He’s back: Fake Peter Molyneux’s Twitter feed is once more live and ready to Tweet out funny, fake, absurd, sometimes interesting game ideas, as predicted. Follow him.
