Many people have assumed that the Kinect 2 would launch alongside the Xbox 720 (or whatever they’re going to call it), since we’ve seen some leaked shots of Kinect 2 data running on the Xbox 720 ‘Durango’ devkits, and the timing just makes sense. An analyst report from GamesIndustry.biz says it might actually show up earlier [...]

The next-gen Xbox dev kits have been out in the wild for awhile now, and now it looks like the Kinect’s next iteration is out there with them. A user on Twitter has leaked an image of capture data from the Kinect 2, which has significantly better detection of small details and depth information. There’s [...]

On May 5th Nukezilla claimed to have gotten a hold of a documents from a ‘trusted source’ which contained details of Microsoft’s next Xbox console as well as the augmented reality glasses it was purported to have. A 56-page document leaked today tited “XBox 720-9-24 Checkpoint Draft 1″ which contained these details and more was [...]

I don’t know about the rest of you, but this whole “multiplatform” thing with Microsoft is starting to give me the willies. Did it start with the release of Kinectimals for iOS in December? All I know is Microsoft pledged that SmartGlass would be available across Windows Phone, Android and iOS, then they updated the [...]

This year at E3 2012 Microsoft has made it clear that they will not be introducing any new hardware as such, instead they will be focusing on new software improvements. Some of the major announcements from Microsoft at E3 2012 include SmartGlass, Internet Explorer for Xbox, new Kinect functionality and various other improvements. With SmartGlass [...]

The folks at Engadget got their hands on Microsoft’s SmartGlass at E3, and their hands on impression answers some questions that we had about this new Xbox input mechanic. From Microsoft’s initial presentation, we were under the impression that SmartGlass would be primarily used for menu navigation, media control, and web surfing. It certainly has these [...]

The idea of pairing video game equipment to an iPad to video game equipment is nothing new to the iOS homebrew community. In addition to the iCade and iControlpad, recent versions of ZodTTD’s emulators are compatible with Wii remotes over bluetooth. Premium Agency’s mad R&D team have joined an iPad into an unholy union with [...]

You’ve probably already heard at last year’s E3 that we didn’t finish the fight. Don’t feel too bad. The Halo franchise sold 40 million units worldwide, with Halo 3 alone breaking the all time record for the first day sales launch of a video game. Microsoft was determined not to let their platform-defining series die [...]

As we saw earlier this year, Microsoft has been really pushing the ability to hack and build new applications which utilizes their motion detection hardware, the Kinect sensor. If their official blog means business (and of course we know it does) then a new version of the Kinect sensor targeted more for developers is on its way. While [...]

While in our previous post, we were speculating a launch date of November 25th for the new Xbox Dashboard update, Major Nelson has confirmed the official release is slated for Tuesday December 6th. Many users may already have the Dashboard on their Xbox through the Xbox preview program which in October began accepting large amount of users [...]