Sep 16

Microsoft announces five new exclusive Kinect games from Japanese developers

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From what we’re feeling, consumer sentiment on the Kinect seems rather divided, and frankly the opinions of those within the Engadget team is similarly split. Ultimately, though, it won’t be the hardware itself that decides the fate of this peripheral, it’ll be the games. At E3 this year Microsoft didn’t really wow us with any Kinect titles that turned the thing into a must-buy, but the five games announced today are at least showing some creativity and a lot of potential. Read on for all the details.

Gallery: Microsoft’s TGS 2010 Kinect exclusives

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Microsoft announces five new exclusive Kinect games from Japanese developers originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 15

Best Buy Reducing CD/DVD Shelf Space to Make Room for Sony Move, Xbox 360 Kinect, Kindle, and iPad

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The good news first: the Sony Move, Xbox 360 Kinect, Amazon Kindle, and Apple iPad are all about to get more prominent placement in your local Best Buy, ahead of the holiday season.

And the bad news? Well, that space has got to come from somewhere. The big box retailer will be scaling back its CD and DVD shelf space in order to make room for the season’s latest entertainment gadgets.

Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn addressed the issue on a recent conference call, telling industry analysts,

We’ll have another store reset before the holidays, which will include an increase in the space for higher-growth and, in the aggregate, higher-margin categories, like Best Buy Mobile, e-readers and gaming, with a heavy emphasis on new gaming platforms and pre-owned game titles. This will be enabled by our reorganization of the DVD and CD sections. The CD section in particular will shrink in space allotment.

It’s the latest blow for industries that have already seen a major decline in retail shelf space, thanks in no small part to the rapid shuttering of music and video specialty stores.

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Sep 14

Turtle Beach crams 7.1 channels into Ear Force DX11 gaming headset

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5.1 channels of faux surround sound not enough for your two ears? Fret not, dear gamers, as Turtle Beach has outdone itself once more. The Ear Force DX11 gaming headset launched today for Xbox 360 and PC gamers, providing a pair of 40mm drivers, a fold-down microphone (with accompanying ‘fro, naturally), a breakout Dolby 7.1 processor, bass boost, S/PDIF-to-analog converter, front panel USB pass-through port and independent volume controls for game and voice signals. It’s available to pre-order right now exclusively from Best Buy, with a rather lofty $129.99 price standing between you and multi-channel nirvana.

Gallery: Turtle Beach Ear Force DX11 gaming headset

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Turtle Beach crams 7.1 channels into Ear Force DX11 gaming headset originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 13

Leaked Xbox 360 dashboard gets demonstrated on video

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We’ve already gotten a brief look at the new Xbox 360 Dashboard that’s leaked out courtesy of the Kinect beta program, but now that it’s well and truly leaked across the internet, we’re getting a much better picture of what’s in store for the rest of us later this fall. As you can see above and in the pair of videos after the break, the new Dashboard is decidedly squarer than the current one, and contains few elements that haven’t gone untouched. You can also now even try out the new Dashboard yourself relatively easily, though you may run into a bit of trouble if you actually want to do thing like play games online.

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Leaked Xbox 360 dashboard gets demonstrated on video originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 13

Capcom dishes the dirt on its Nintendo 3DS graphics

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According to a recent Capcom investor Q&A, it looks like the company’s upcoming Nintendo 3DS games will be developed using the MT Framework — the same game engine used for PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii titles. This means that graphics features like “HDR lighting, real-time color correction, self-shadowing, normal mapping, depth of field and motion blur” will be making their way to your handheld — whenever it should become available. Hit the source link to see several examples featuring the upcoming Resident Evil: Revelations (or, as it’s known in Japan, Biohazard: Revelations) and prepare to enter a virtual wonderworld of machine translated tech details regarding game development. You’re welcome.

Capcom dishes the dirt on its Nintendo 3DS graphics originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 13

Michael Jackson Ubisoft Dance Game Due Out on Nintendo Wii, DS, Sony PSP

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Earlier this summer at E3, Ubisoft teased its latest license, with a stage full of dancers battling it out, “Beat It” style. The company announced that it had the right to Michael Jackson’s likeness, nearly a year after the unexpected death of the king of pop.

The result of the partnership is the forthcoming “Michael Jackson: The Experience” title, a dance game aimed at teaching players the singer’s signature moves with 25 to 30 of his biggest hits.

The title is set to arrive on the Nintendo Wii and DS and the Sony PSP, this November. Players with other consoles will have to wait until 2011, however. The larger console versions of the games will take advantage of their respective systems motion controllers.

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Sep 12

Sony launches anti-Kinect attack website, yaybuttons.com

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Sony’s typically the equal-opportunity offender, poking fun at everything from Wii to iPhone, but the company’s latest marketing campaign is unmistakably aimed at Microsoft’s motion-sensing peripheral. Head on over to www.yaybuttons.com to interact with a two-dimensional PlayStation Move, which will pop out a series of quotes from Kevin Butler — Sony’s fictional VP of Realistic Movements — explaining Sony’s tactile advantages over Microsoft’s Kinect. While members of the Sony Defense Force will surely eat this up in spades, the rest of us will simply enjoy this latest tussle, and go back to waiting for both companies to put their money by their oral socket and make more games worth playing.

Sony launches anti-Kinect attack website, yaybuttons.com originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 12 Sep 2010 04:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 10

How would you change Microsoft’s new Xbox 360?

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So, you didn’t wait for those forthcoming Kinect bundles to ship before picking up a new Xbox 360, huh? Good on you. Now that you’ve had all summer to break ‘er in, we’re keenly interested in knowing how exactly you — the dear consumer — would change Microsoft’s slimmer, edgier Xbox 360. Would you have crafted a more stackable case? Thrown in a Blu-ray drive for obvious reasons? Included four controllers and a game for a nominal fee? Packed more than 250GB of hard drive space? Retooled the controller at the time of launch, rather than… say, last week? Go ahead and get real in comments below. Just keep it halfway sane down there.

How would you change Microsoft’s new Xbox 360? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Sep 2010 22:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 09

Microsoft Intro $400 Xbox Kinect Bundle

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Microsoft this week took the wraps off another Kinect/Xbox 360 bundle. The new package features the slimmed down 250GB Xbox 360 console (priced at $300), the Kinect sensor ($150), and the Kinect Adventures title ($50) together for $400.

This is the second Kinect bundle introduced by Microsoft. The first, introduced in July, featured the Kinect, Kinect Adventures, and the 4GB Xbox 360 console ($199). It will be price at $299.

The new slimmed down Xbox 360 console was first unveiled at this year’s E3 in Los Angeles. The Kinect name and availability was also announced at that show. The motion-controlled, controller-free peripheral will be available in the states on November 4th.

Microsoft also used the opportunity to announce that the Kinect will go on sale in Japan on November 20th. The device will debut in that country next week at the Tokyo Game Show.

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Sep 08

Mad Catz’s Black Ops PrecisionAim gamepads and Stealth mouse hands-on

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Mad Catz’ Modern Warfare 2 peripherals won’t know what hit them when Black Ops debuts this fall — the quality of the company’s gamepads has increased yet again, and of course, this year the Call of Duty-flavored lineup ships with a genuine R.A.T. mouse. We snuck down the streets of San Francisco for a top secret rendezvous to test these controllers out, and discovered a pair of the most comfortable gamepads we’ve tried for our trouble. Read our full impressions after the break — totally declassified.

Gallery: Mad Catz’s Black Ops PrecisionAIM controllers, hands-on

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