In Real Life

5 Things Microsoft Needs To Do To Improve With Kinect

The Kinect is pretty good, but who is satisfied with “pretty good”? Having spent may days with Kinect, I’ve got five requests for how Microsoft could improve this thing.


July 16, 2010
News

Kinect Kind Of Compatible With Push-Ups

For a week in June, Team Kotaku played Microsoft’s hands-free control system Kinect, standing up. Kinect has problems with seated players, we reported. Yesterday I tried doing a push-up in front of it.


March 19, 2010
News

Metroid: Other M Isn’t Completely Off The Rails

Playing through a short section of Metroid: Other M last week, I couldn’t help but notice that the action adventure Wii title felt at times very much like the sort of game the makers of Other M said it wasn’t: An on-the-rails shooter.


February 25, 2010
News

Whatever Happened To That Other Prince Of Persia?

The aptly named Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands picks up the tale of the Prince, filling in that gap between Sands of Time and Warrior Within. But what happened to that reboot of Prince of Persia from two years ago?


February 9, 2010
News

Digital Decapitations A Primal Release, Creator Says

“I’ve always been a non-violent person,” Tim Jones told me last week as we chatted in a subterranean nightclub in Manhattan. He’s a “peace and love” kind of guy and designer of a new video game featuring spine-dangling decapitations.


August 8, 2009

Rabbids Go Home: The Stripping Gets Your Attention

In case you were planning on skipping Ubisoft’s new Wii-only adventure game, first consider that it will allow players to strip human beings to their underwear.


July 31, 2009
In Real Life

Bill O’Reilly: Moral Barometer Or Guitar Hero Shill?

Once more Bill O’Reilly finds himself attacking a video game ad during his show. And by attacking I mean allowing the entire sexy advertisement to play, unedited, while he quietly watches.


January 13, 2009
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CES 09: Hands On With The Wii… Err, Eee Stick

ASUS hears your cries, PC gamers. They know you’re not content with keyboard and mouse controls, that you’re desperate to get your hands on a faux Wii-remote to control the seven games that support it.