Review London 2012 - The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games (Xbox 360)
Go for gold, or settle for bronze?
News Need For Speed: Most Wanted Headed to Kinect
Criterion racer gets Kinect support.
Feature Kinect PlayFit - First Impressions
Free. Worth every penny.
News - July, 2012
Tuesday31st Jul 2012
News Need For Speed: Most Wanted Headed to Kinect
Criterion racer gets Kinect support.
Those beady-eyed folks over at VG247 have spotted something rather special. It appears that Criterion's 2012 reboot of the game is more than likely coming to your Xbox 360 complete with Kinect support in October (or November if you're in Europe.) The official packshots for the game released at E3 don't contain...
Castle Crasher
Angry Birds has a lot to answer for, doesn’t it? Not only are we besieged by clones of the game in each operating system’s app store, but now we’re seeing the influence stretch to console gaming. Even the master itself – Rovio — is exerting its influence, confirming that Angry Birds Trilogy will be coming to Kinect for Xbox...
Friday27th Jul 2012
Review Ice Age: Continental Drift - Arctic Games (Xbox 360)
The ice is wearing thin
Games based on movies have a somewhat dodgy reputation. The publisher grabs the movie licence – generally as filming wraps up – and assigns a developer to get a game completed in time for the movie’s release. In rare cases, the development teams have struck gold. Generally though, the publisher ends up releasing a game...
Monday23rd Jul 2012
News FIFA 13 Voice Commands Detailed
Come on, Ref!
We found out about FIFA 13 getting Kinect voice support back at E3, but details were a little bit sparse. EA have today confirmed a few more pieces of information about the new functionality, with voice commands promising to provide a surprising new layer of depth to the game. As well as being able to call for substitutions and change...
Wednesday18th Jul 2012
Review London 2012 - The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games (Xbox 360)
Go for gold, or settle for bronze?
Even though there have been many, many attempts at putting multi-event sporting action into the next generation, only a few attempts have even come close to emulating the quality shown in the likes of Konami’s 1983 arcade hit Track and Field, Sega’s own DecAthlete (Athlete Kings) for the Saturn, or even Olympic...
Feature Kinect PlayFit - First Impressions
Free. Worth every penny.
So, Kinect PlayFit has been out for about a week, and it seems that folks are racking up the burnt calories like there's no tomorrow. The free app (available from your Xbox dashboard) tracks your play across 10 different Kinect titles, tracking how many calories you burn and awarding achievements and avatar awards based on...