The conventional wisdom is that Kinect was an albatross on Xbox One, making the system more expensive at launch and taking ...

Though mostly focused on children's games, there are also games like Zumba Fitness Party, Mingle (a match and merge puzzle ...

Xbox hardware was outsold by a little-known Kinect-style console during Black Friday week in the US, coming fourth. That’s according to Circana data shared on social media, which suggests that the ...

And just like that, all three of the major game consoles now have some semblance of motion controls. Unlike the Nintendo Wii and PlayStation Move, however, Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360 opts to get ...

Xbox One's Kinect controller is a double edged sword. While some praise its new advance motion tracking others are keen to use it as a stick to punish Microsoft for its insistence that every Xbox ...

The Kinect, once a required part of the Xbox One, is no longer seen as the system seller it once was, at least not by Phil Spencer, recently appointed head of Xbox. That's a far cry from how the ...

Microsoft has yielded to the demands of a vocal fan base and introduced a $399 Xbox One without Kinect. But while those fans are celebrating a victory and likely preparing to speak approval with their ...

Getting Kinect working perfectly in a real living room takes a little thinking about. Families I talk to often express initial frustration with the hands-free controller and feel like they must be ...

Kinect is dead. The writing has been on the wall for years, at least since Microsoft de-bundled the motion-tracking system from the Xbox One in 2014, knocking $100 off the price tag and making the ...

Having spent time with Microsoft's new Kinect sensor on the Xbox One, I am massively impressed — and thoroughly creeped out. The device is everything the company boasted and more, and the idea of that ...

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