Demonstrating the ability of Kinect to track facial expressions, whilst this recent demo of Microsoft’s upcoming Avatar Kinect may not in itself be awe inspiring, it is rather impressive and more importantly, indicative of the device’s potential.
Since Kinect hit the shelves there have been a number of rather impressive hacks. This time it’s about playing Street Fighter by throwing some shapes. Hadoken!
Props to YouTube user demize2010 and his coding skills.
It’s nearly time to see how Crytek’s powerhouse engine shapes up on consoles. Making it’s first public move away from PC, EA is set to release an Xbox 360 exclusive multiplayer demo of Crysis 2 on 25 January. Gold members only, sorry.
Here’s hoping it’s beautiful… and good.
After effects specialist Freddie Wong’s realistic first person shooter. Excellent!
Today the Playstation 3 became an entertainment powerhouse as both Channel 4 and ITV’s on demand services made their way to the televisions across the UK. Playstation 1, Xbox 0.5(ish)
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If you enjoyed this, you should most certainly check out Tobuscus’ other “Literal” videos on YouTube. His take on Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is also rather funny. That is all. Enjoy.
Over the past week rumours have begun to solidify that Sony is set to announce a Playstation Phone under it’s Sony Ericsson umbrella “soon”. In fact, yesterday some rather shaky footage appeared online purportedly showing the device in the hands of an unknown.
Hot on the heels of that rather unconvincing footage was the above. Released literally hours ago, the video appears to show a new Sony Ericsson device, “Zeus/Z1″ sporting the new Gingerbread version of Android. If you look closely enough at the menu screen there is also a rather familiar Playstation logo which, as demonstrated by the video below, would appear to launch the Playstation App.
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The Xbox 360 dashboard gets its second face-lift tomorrow with the release of the fall 2010 update. Kinect support and a faster, more responsive interface for all!
Microsoft has told users that the mandatory update will “enhance the interface, navigation, and responsiveness” of the Xbox 360, as well as adding new features. Those new features may include the addition of Zune Music and ESPN programming to the dashboard, although these are likely to vary by region.
Additional features include redesigned graphics and revamped Avatars.
LoveFilm? Well, UK Playstation 3 owners are in for a treat on par with our US counterparts who have enjoyed the benefits of Netflix on their consoles for a considerable time now.
Essentially, if you’re a LoveFilm subscriber on a package of £5.99/month or above you can stream thousands of titles to your PS3 without having to wait for disks to reach your doorstep via Royal Snail. Excellent work Sony!
Some 16 years have passed since a remotely decent Sonic game graced screens around the world. 3D was a failure, for obvious reasons, and Sonic fans have been screaming for a return to a traditional 2D viewpoint.
Sonic 4 has been known about for some time but the systems on which it would arrive were not. Now, actually now, its available as a timed exclusive on the iPhone.