Microsoft Unveils 'Avatar' Project

Microsoft has decided to remove gun-like items from the Xbox Live Marketplace to prevent gamers from using Avatars that carry guns. According to an article on The Verge, users will be able to use items in their Avatars which they...

Web retailer Amazon Inc suspended the sale of the Nintendo 3DS console only to resume again shortly after, following an issue raise by customers. According to tech website PCMag, on Monday, Amazon suspended the sale of the Cosmo...

Software giant Microsoft has released Avatar Kinect for the Xbox 360 gaming console, which is free for Xbox Live users till September.The technology, which was first unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the CES in...

An AMD executive has claimed that the next generation Xbox 360 console will be capable of graphics as good as those in James Cameron’s Avatar.In an interview with the Official Xbox Magazine, AMD's director of ISV...

The poorly tested apps available in the Android Market due to the openness of the Android platform are responsible for around 70 percent of Motorola Smartphone returns, it has been claimed. Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha,...

At E3 today, Microsoft showed off three exciting features of Kinect Fun Labs that will be available to all the Xbox 360 users once it launches later in the day today.The first demo presented the feature through which Xbox Live...

Software giant Microsoft will reportedly announce a TV streaming service for its Xbox Live platform at the upcoming E3 gaming conference.Code-named Project Orapa, the Xbox Live Diamond TV service will allow Xbox 360 owners and...

Microsoft might use the upcoming E3 conference to showcase its Project Orapa, which brings together Xbox Live and the Mediaroom IPTV platform.The platform will allow Microsoft to deliver TV-based entertainment and gaming...

Microsoft has added a new “revolutionary” feature to the Xbox Kinect motion control technology that detects and identifies the facial expressions of its user, and then projects them immediately onto an on screen...

Microsoft has claimed that it will continue to focus on its “core audience” of Xbox 360 gamers, rather than solely producing titles for Kinect.  Kinect has been a runaway success for Microsoft, having sold 8...

Microsoft has shipped more than 8 million Kinect units since its November launch on the Xbox 360, company CEO Steve Ballmer has revealed. Speaking during a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas,...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer bounced onto the stage at CES in Las Vegas to burble on about what a success the XBox is. Waving his arms about as if he was rigged up to a Kinect device, Ballmer said 2010 had been the biggest year...

Screenshots of Microsoft's Kinect beta have shown a revamped Xbox 360 dashboard, set to accompany the new motion sensing gaming peripheral.Games news site Joystiq reports that the company recently unveiled the first beat version...

Microsoft is set to release an update for Xbox Live avatars with the launch of its Kinect motion sensing gaming peripheral.Since their introduction on Xbox Live, avatars have become increasingly popular with gamers. and have been...

The technology used in Mocrosoft's Kinect motion-sensing Xbox 360 gaming peripheral has been revealed by a patent application filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office.Tech news site Gizmodo reports that Kinect uses...