Anyone else remember project "Natal"? Don't worry, I too had nearly forgotten the covert name for the mysterious add-on for the Xbox 360. Surrounded by more mystery than a government cover up, not much was revealed to the press at first and speculations ran amuck. Now, two years later, the project has grown up and acquired it's very own big boy name and is ready to run with the rest of the big guys.
Kinect launched on November 4, 2010 and sold 8 million units in the first 60 days. However, Kinect has had two recognizable flaws since it's launch as well. Very few titles and space requirement kept Kinect from being the sweetest thing I had ever beheld. I am very happy to say, this year at E3 both of those problems went to sleep with the fishes.
NYKO ZOOM
Finally, and somewhat unexpectedly, someone solved the Kinect's biggest downside for those of us who don't have an airplane hanger to double for a living room. It's an attachment that clicks onto the Kinect itself and magically drops the space prerequisite by 40%. It will be available August 16 for three Alexander Hamiltons (or 30 American dollars.) BOOM!
NEW KINECT TITLES
Okay, not only is the title scarcity no longer an issue, the ruttin flood gates have been opened. So, this is how I am going to do this. I am going to list both Kinect titles and Kinect integrations (I am sure to miss some, but will try not to). Then my next blog will be nothing but info on the titles and integrations themselves. So in no particular order,
(an unbiased list is a happy list) here they are.
KINECT TITLES
STAR WARS KINECT
FABLE: THE JOURNEY
SESAME STREET: ONCE UPON A MONSTER
KINECT DISNEYLAND ADVENTURES
RAVING RABBIDS: ALIVE AND KICKING
THE DEEPAK CHOPRA PROJECT
NICKELODEON DANCE
DANCE CENTRAL 2
JUST DANCE 3
KINECT SPORTS: SEASON 2
UFC PERSONAL TRAINER
YOUR SHAPE FITNESS EVOLVED 2
RISE OF NIGHTMARES
MICHAEL PHELPS: PUSH THE LIMIT
GUNSTRINGER
FRUIT NINJA
LEEDMEES
KINECT INTEGRATIONS
KINECT FUNLABS (this is free to download on Xbox Live, so if you haven't yet, get that baby DLing!)
BING
YOUTUBE and
TELEVISION STREAMING
Thats it for this blog entry. As always Thanks for stopping by and peace and love to all.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
MY FELLOW XBOX 360IANS...
Welcome. Firstly, I would like to begin by saying thanks for stopping by. You are obviously a supercool human being if you have arrived here to read (and hopefully discuss) all things Xbox 360. This is my first entry on my AWESOME Xbox 360 blog, and I intend on posting many more . Trying to keep the intro short, I will simply say, I hope this blog site will become and remain an informative love letter to all Xbox 360 lovers. I will be posting news, release information, rants, praises, and anything else I believe you, my fellow Xbox 360ians, would enjoy taking part in. So with that said, let's get going.
I think we can all agree that it is an excellent time to be a gamer. I am a store manager at a video game retailer and have been working in the industry for over a gorram decade now and I am simply amazed at how sophisticated they have gotten so quickly. I remember when the original Xbox launched in 2001, after playing Halo: Combat Evolved and Oddworld: Munch's Odyssey, asking myself, "Self, how can video games get any better than this?!" Though myself never answered back I continued anyway, "The graphics are amazing!" "And, it has a built-in hard drive I can store music on!" I was falling head-over-heels. It didn't even take as long as I had pre-judgmentally thought it would to forget the beastly size of the original controller, which my friends and I would come to affectionately nickname "the girth" after the release of the s-controller.
I think we can all agree that it is an excellent time to be a gamer. I am a store manager at a video game retailer and have been working in the industry for over a gorram decade now and I am simply amazed at how sophisticated they have gotten so quickly. I remember when the original Xbox launched in 2001, after playing Halo: Combat Evolved and Oddworld: Munch's Odyssey, asking myself, "Self, how can video games get any better than this?!" Though myself never answered back I continued anyway, "The graphics are amazing!" "And, it has a built-in hard drive I can store music on!" I was falling head-over-heels. It didn't even take as long as I had pre-judgmentally thought it would to forget the beastly size of the original controller, which my friends and I would come to affectionately nickname "the girth" after the release of the s-controller.
Fast forward ten years to E3 2011 and Microsoft still knows how to kick out the awesome. Microsoft unveiled a class act line up of both controller games and Xbox 360 KINECT games. I was already greatly anticipating several titles and had been waiting like mad to get any new information on them. Other titles completely blindsided me with fabulous surprises that gloriously threatened to rock my face off. Over the next few blog entries I am going to attempt to cover all of them and more.
Thanks for checking out Brad's AWESOME Xbox 360 Blog. Peace and love to all.
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