Curb Stomp Everything in Dead Space 3

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Dead Space 3 Review Isaac Clark is into his third run-in with the Unitologists and necromorphs in Dead Space 3, this time instead of only destroying one marker, he’s heading to a planet to discover how one civilization managed to stop a Marker uprising. Unlike his past endeavors, Isaac wont be going at it alone, [...]


Dead Space 3 Micro-transactions Not the End of the World

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Dead Space 3 has brought co-op play and Kinect controls to it’s newest installment, and now Eurogamer at a preview event today caught a little tid bit regarding Dead Space 3 and micro-transactions in it’s weapon crafting system. During their hands on preview they noticed the message, ”Cannot craft. Additional resources required.” The purchasable items are [...]


Kinect + Projector = Microsoft IllumiRoom

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Back in September of last year Microsoft filed a patent for a technology that would project your games image on the walls of the room you’re playing in, giving the effect of virtually being in the game. Here it is, four months later, and Microsoft Research has released IllumiRoom as a proof-of-concept, to show exactly what it [...]


Black Ops 2 Tries to Sell Revolution

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Treyarch officially announced that the first Black Ops 2 map pack will be releasing later this month, and they want you to buy it. Like Dead Space 3‘s latest “Better with Kinect” infomercial, the Treyarch team tries to sell you on the upcoming maps, zombies, and SMG/assault gun hybrid included in the pack. Since these [...]


Dead Space 3 “Swears” It’s “Better With Kinect”

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The latest video for Dead Space 3 is all about voice commands. I think the video is pretty self explanatory, but I thought it played out more like a bad infomercial with Steve Papoutsis, the Executive Producer of Dead Space 3, saying we no longer have to “fumble with the controls”. Were they really that [...]


The Latest Trailer for Kinect Party!

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Kinect Party will be arriving later this month, just in time for your family and friends to gather together and break down buildings, lay down explosive high-fives, shoot space lazers, and drop some mad dub step beats! It’s fun for the kids, and drunk adults! Our extended time with Kinect Party at PAX was extremely [...]


PAX: We Play Kinect Party With Double Fine!

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Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you just happen to be at the right place at the right time, in our case at this years PAX Prime, we achieved both of these. Taking a shot in the dark we headed over to the Double Fine booth and asked if we could do an interview and play [...]


$99 Xbox 360 Comes With Kinect…and a Contract.

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“You can’t have your cake and eat it too.” I don’t know where this saying originated from, and I really don’t understand why I can’t eat “my” cake. Microsoft has this same kind of idea in mind, a 4GB Xbox 360 with Kinect can now be yours for $99, but not without a contract. These [...]


Star Wars Kinect with Bundle Release Date Announced…and It’s Surprisingly Soon

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You ever wonder why the Star Wars Gods never just come beat us up for our money?  Because they always know exactly what we want.  What?  An R2-D2 Xbox 360 with a C-3PO gold controller?  Take my money now please!  Oh, it also comes with the Kinect and a 320 GB hard drive?  That’s exactly [...]


Finally a Party Game for Kinect! Double Fine Happy Action Theater Reviewed

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Double Fine Happy Action Theater Review I’ll be the first to say that I’m a fanboy of both Double Fine and the legend himself Tim Schafer.  In my eyes they can do no wrong.  I know as a reviewer this can sometimes make being unbiased towards a title difficult, but lucky for us Double Fine [...]