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by Published on February 21st, 2011 20:45- Categories:
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Buzz! maker Relentless Software is no longer shackled to PlayStation, and there's one piece of technology that has particularly caught its eye: Kinect.
"Of course I'd consider any game for Kinect. And the reason is because Kinect is amazing," Relentless co-founder and executive director Andrew Eades told Eurogamer.
"It's the exact right technology for now. It's given our sector a new lease of life. We'd be mad to not look into Kinect and what we can do.
"The Kinect audience that Microsoft is going after is exactly the audience that we've spoken about forever. Since we started we've said we make games for everyone and that's exactly what Kinect is about, making gaming available to anybody.
"The removal of the controller is a stroke of genius," he added. "People can actually have a go because they don't feel intimidated by this weird DualShock controller or the Xbox controller."
That's the reason Relentless developed the original Buzz controller for PlayStation 2 six years ago.
Eades wouldn't confirm or deny if Relentless was making a game for Kinect nor whether he'd talked to Microsoft.
If Relentless did develop a game for Kinect, a Buzz! game would be off the menu - Sony owns that IP. But what about family murder mystery game Blue Toad Murder Files, could that potentially be a Kinect game?
"Yeah in theory it could be, of course," answered Eades. "It would be really suitable for that.
"There's a lot of hurdles in practice, but why not? I mean I'd love to do it. I'd love to do it multi-platform but I think you'd have to get PlayStation and Xbox to agree with each other on that."
When asked about PlayStation Move, Eades sees one stumbling block: sales. Kinect, remember, raced out of the traps with eight million sales in 60 days.
Sony's been less forthcoming with Move figures; the last we heard was in November 2010, whenMove had shipped 4.1 million units around the world."My only issue with Move is if it's got enough numbers out there - whether it's sold through to enough people to make it a platform that we could aim at," said Eades.
"The difference with Kinect is that it's big enough from its first holiday, and growing, that you can take a punt on it - and my conversations with publishers are confirming that decision.
"But we're still not sure if Move is big enough yet for us. I hope it will be, because my dream scenario is not to be partisan in any of this, it's to have available a bigger audience."
Let's not forget about Wii, the console with the biggest rectangle on the seventh generation home console sales chart - not to mention an audience that fits Relentless' remit.
"We have Wii capability here," Eades revealed. "It is a platform we're looking at.
"We find it slightly more difficult because we think we're a bit late to the party, if you like, on Wii. There's a lot of good, solid games out there that are sufficiently supplying our audience, our market. So it's a bit harder for us to come in and compete there."
Relentless Software has already branched out to PC with the release of Blue Toad Murder Files. The studio has also announced its first iPhone game, Quiz Climber, which will be published by Angry Birds powerhouse Chillingo.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...roke-of-genius...
by Published on February 21st, 2011 20:23- Categories:
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Microsoft is to open up its XBox Kinect technology to allow amateur software developers to experiment with it.
The company is to release a software development kit in the spring, which will give developers access to the secrets behind the technology.
For now it will only be for personal use, but Microsoft says it will release a commercial version in due course.
Kinect, which turns the player's body into a game controller, has been a big hit since it launched last November.
It has already captured the imagination of the hacker community, which has been demonstrating various uses for the technology, including 3D photography.
Microsoft is hoping that an army of smarter developers will now find more ways to take Kinect to the next level.
"As breakthrough technologies like these reach scale, the resulting creativity and invention will open up a whole new world of possibilities for computing," said Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer.
The announcement was made during an open day at Microsoft's research centre near Seattle.
The company is hoping that the success of Kinect, developed by its own scientists, can give it a greater presence in the home entertainment field.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12531127
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The TV Mount uses the VESA specification standard as the ideal solution for mounting your Xbox 360 Kinect sensor to virtually any size HDTC (from 26" to 60"). Sturdy metal /plastic construction and unique design allows the Xbox 360 Kinect sensor to be securely mounted to virtually any HDTV while keeping the mount hidden from view. A quick and simple installation to your HDTV and you are ready for the Kienct experience. Extra mounting clip for PlayStation Eye is included. ...by Published on February 20th, 2011 17:38- Categories:
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Remember that Microsoft Rally Ball demo from a few days ago that showed Windows Phone 7's integration with Xbox? Well, the gang at Supertouch has stolen a bit of Ballmer's thunder with a newKinect hack that lets you hurl digital orbs at your Kinect-controlling friend using an iOS device instead of a WP7 handset. The graphics for the game and the iDevice controls aren't nearly as pretty as Microsoft's cross-platform gaming solution, but the end result is pretty much the same -- flingin' balls with a phone while your friend dodges them courtesy of Kinect.
Meanwhile, Frog Design has added a Human Tetris game to the Kinect's repertoire where players perfect their Vogue-ing skills by striking a pose to match an approaching cut-out on screen. Finally, all the shape-shifting fun with none of the goofy silver jumpsuits. Vids are after the break.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/20/k...-human-tetris/ ...by Published on February 19th, 2011 00:11- Categories:
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[NeoTenchi] wrote in to share the new game peripheral he built, dubbed the NES Paul. The ultimate goal of the project was to build a NES-styled controller for an upcoming game he is working on, tentatively titled 8-bit Hero. The guitar is constructed primarily from wood, as well as some scrounged bits he had around the house. An Xbox 360 controller was dismantled and wired to provide input for the guitar’s buttons and D-Pad. Even the Xbox controller’s rumble packs were used in order to provide visual feedback of missed notes via LED tuning pegs on the guitar’s headstock.
The writeup is broken into several pieces as it was put together in a handful of Google Buzz posts, but it is still relatively easy to follow. We can’t wait to see how the project comes together once the game portion has been completed.
http://hackaday.com/2011/02/18/nes-p...me-controller/ ...by Published on February 17th, 2011 22:11- Categories:
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Windows Phone 7 is getting a lot of extensions this year and, while we wouldn't say Kinect interoperability is anywhere near as important as third-party multitasking, it could be fun. Still, we haven't seen proper Kinect interop, the sort that would see you controlling WP7 games with a Kinect -- the sort that is apparently possible on Android. YouTuber HirotakaSter has managed to hook a Kinect up to Android hardware, what looks to be an Armadillo 500 FX development platform, and get everything to play nice. He's using openFrameworks and, while at this point the software isn't doing much other than showing a video stream from the camera, the possibilities from here are quite simplyinfinite.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/16/d...-microsofts-w/ ...by Published on February 17th, 2011 12:53
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