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  What the world knew as Microsoft’s Project Natal will now be known as Kinect. At the E3 gaming expo, Microsoft unveiled the new name, which they reckon is more marketable than the former name. Other than that, we’re still looking at the same peripheral in a more polished design that has a RGB camera, [...]

  Microsoft will reveal Project Natal’s price and availability details at the E3 Premiere in couple of weeks but if you want an estimation about how much you’ll be shelling out when it comes to the market, Edge Online claims to have got it from their trustworthy source. Provided its true, the standalone Project Natal [...]

  Microsoft’s been vague when it comes to the launch date of Project Natal but thanks to a MS marketing manager for Entertainment & Devices in Saudi Arabia, we know the release month now. According to the executive, the exact date is still unknown but we’ll “definitely” see Xbox 360’s Project Natal sometime in October. [...]

  A picture of a new Xbox 360 motherboard sparked the 360 Slim rumors and now if we were to believe Michael Pachter, analyst at Wedbush Morgan, we might have the slimmer version by end of this year. “It is far more likely that we will see a slim version of the Xbox 360 with [...]

  PrimeSense today announced that Microsoft will use their “3D-sensing” technology for Xbox 360′s Project Natal. The Israel-based organization provided a reference design of its PrimeSensor and MS’ hardware engineering team customized it as per Project Natal’s requirement. Project Natal as we know is Microsoft’s answer to Wii’s motion-sensing controller that with the help of [...]

  Microsoft sent out invites of the world premiere of Project Natal to media. The premiere will happen at E3 in June where journalists will get an hands-on experience and will be later followed by a press conference, where we can expect the exact release date and the pricing. For the uninitiated, Project Natal is [...]

  Microsoft may be gathering all the attention for its controller-free motion-sensing gaming, known as Project Natal. But according to a CVG source, Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata apprarently turned it down before it was snagged by Microsoft almost a year later. The rumor claims that the guys at 3DV Systems – who’ve developed the tech – [...]

  Since the unveiling of Project Natal, Microsoft has been playing coy with its most important details – the price and availability. However, if this new report is to be believed, that has apparently occurred behind closed doors in UK, Natal might be very well coming in November next year. Some more details were spilled, [...]

  Apart from a brief demonstration at the E3 this year, Microsoft has not shared any noteworthy details of Project Natal including its tentative release. Now, in earnings call of THQ, Brian Farell, CEO claims the Project Natal should be out “late next year” so as to benefit from upcoming Christmas season. He also said [...]

  It looks as if Sony has pulled a similar thing to Microsoft’s Project Natal but with a major difference that the Japanese company’s version uses everyday objects as the controllers. A new patent filed by Sony shows that any three dimensional object in the real world could act as a controller for a PS3 [...]

  Ubisoft has announced Your Shape fitness game for Wii that comes with a USB camera, functioning similar to Microsoft’s Project Natal. The attached camera scans user’s body shape and suggests a workout plan that can help burn some fats. The functionality doesn’t end there. It will also track user’s movements during the workout so [...]

  Microsoft takes a whole new approach to motion sensing gaming. They have unveiled the Project Natal that uses human body’s movements to register a command instead of a motion sensing controller. The sensor comprises of an RGB camera, depth sensor, microphone, facial recognition and runs proprietary software on a custom processor. Another good thing [...]