Latest Kinect demo fails to impress

It looks like Microsoft won't be unveiling a next generation home console at this year's E3, with Microsoft's senior marketing director Jose Pinero stating that "At the moment, we have nothing to announce." Rumours have been...

Microsoft has added new apps to the UK version of the Xbox Live TV service. Channel 4's 4oD and Channel 5's Demand 5 apps are the latest in a line of several TV services the company plans to make available via Xbox Live. UK...

Software giant Microsoft is expected to dish out new features for its Xbox Live platform which will allow users to watch cable TV and stream video using the Xbox 360 console in the US. People familiar with the company’s...

Software giant Microsoft is planning to dish out a new Dashboard update for its Xbox Live platform in November, which might bring live TV to the platform. Sources have told Bloomberg that the company, in an effort to expand the...

Microsoft recently introduced the Xbox TV platform to a group of financial analysts in anticipation of a product launch during the upcoming holiday season.Microsoft plans to use the massive install base of its Xbox 360...

Impulse Technology has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and eight big video game publishers over Kinect motion gaming technology.The Ohio based company has claimed that Microsoft’s Kinect motion gaming...

Microsoft came up with an update on its E3 website stating that Halo 4 is “on the way” hours before the keynote speech at Electronic Entertainment Expo. The operating system giant took down the update soon after, but...

The fickle finger of fate has struck at Microsoft HQ, with a list of the company's E3 announcements being posted to the Xbox.com site ahead of schedule - and there's at least one surprise spoiled as a result.For the last week,...

UK studios are behind more than a third of the games launched for Microsoft's Kinect motion gaming device since its launch, data released by the UKIE has revealed.Citing figures provided by Gfk ChartTrack, the UKIE revealed that...

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...

A surge in demand for the Microsoft Kinect motion controller has forced its price to up to £230 on Ebay and Amazon, a massive premium given that its suggested selling price is £130. Microsoft has assured prospective...

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's Kinect has failed to impress the audience at a Hong Kong animation festival - despite being played by a pair of half-naked Asian models, tech news site Geek has reported.Local models Jessica C and Chrissie Chau...

Microsoft’s new Kinect motion controller will cost £130 when it is released in the UK later this year, the company has announced - a mere £20 less than the cost of its new 4GB Xbox 360, due to launch on 20...

Microsoft has announced today that it will be selling a cut down version of the newly released Xbox 360 Slim together with the Kinect Sensor and a games package known as the Kinect Adventures for £249.99. The new console is...