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Microsoft Kindasmashes Natal Launch Rumour

1:00PM Owen Good | Microsoft’s UK boss dismissed a report last week that Natal will be ready to go in November 2010, saying claims of pricing and available shipments were based on inaccurate rumours. More »
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What The Captains Of The Industry Said Today

10:20AM Stephen Totilo | Three ideas popped out to me while attending a series of presentations from top executives in the gaming industry today: Ideas about price, women, mid-cycle relaunches and which games matter most to the bottom line. More »
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Guess What Made Time’s 50 Best Inventions Of 2009 List

7:20AM Mike Fahey | Project Natal continues to rack up awards for innovation faster than the Nintendo Wii circa early 2007, making its way onto Time’s 50 Best Inventions of 2009 list. Microsoft is pleased. More »
Rumours

Rumour: Project Natal Launches Nov. 10, 14 Games, Might Be Cheap

9:30PM Luke Plunkett | According to sources speaking with British trade site MCV, Microsoft’s Project Natal will be released in November 2010, and may retail for under $US80. More »
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Rumoured Kameo 2 Killed To Make Room For Natal Projects

12:40PM Michael McWhertor | Microsoft owned developer Rare won’t be returning to the world of Kameo any time soon, thanks to the studio’s shift toward multiple Project Natal titles, according to unnamed sources cited by CVG. Microsoft is reported to have cancelled a sequel. More »
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Rare Hopes To Evolve The FPS Genre With Project Natal

9:40AM Michael McWhertor | Banjo Kazooie and Viva Pinata developer Rare has made some important contributions to the first-person shooter genre, a space it hasn’t visited since Perfect Dark Zero hit the Xbox 360 in 2005. That may change, thanks to Project Natal. More »
Rumours

Molyneux: Fable III Will Use Project Natal

8:40AM Michael McWhertor | Lionhead Studios’ recently announced Fable III, first detailed at Gamescom this summer, will make use of Microsoft’s Project Natal controller. That’s according to reports from Peter Molyneux’s BAFTA Video Games Lecture in London. More »
Features

What Do Borderlands, Project Natal and Citizen Kane Have In Common?

2:00PM David Wildgoose | No idea? They’re what Gearbox Software’s Randy Pitchford starts talking about when you ask him why he likes games. More »
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Epic: Unreal The “Unofficial Engine” Of Project Natal

12:20PM Michael McWhertor | Epic Games, makers of things Unreal and Gears of War, are fully on board with this Project Natal thing that Microsoft has cooked up. VP Mark Rein calls the company’s popular Unreal tech “the unofficial engine of Natal.” More »
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Details About Project Natal Pricing Emerge

3:30PM Brian Ashcraft | At an Microsoft event today in New York City, exec Robbie Bach talked about how the pricing for the upcoming motion controls Project Natal will work. More »