Much of the excitement surrounding the new Xbox can be directly attributed to the next-gen Kinect sensor. Building off what the original Kinect started this takes NUI (natural user interaction) to the next level. From natural speech recognition to more accurate facial recognition and more detailed body motion capture. Kinect has been improved so much it's almost unfair to compare with the original incarnation. In this article let's go over what we know.
The New Xbox Revealed
It’s been an exciting couple weeks for Xbox fans. The new console was announced dubbed the “Xbox One” and the next-generation Kinect was debuted and detailed. We’ll give a brief synopsis of the new system as well as more in depth analysis of the new Kinect sensor in a later piece.
Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor Gameplay Screenshots
After a new trailer last month, Capcom decided to demo Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor at this years Tokyo Game Show. Japan's biggest video game magazine Famitsu have had a chance to see the game in action, bringing us our first shots of gameplay.
Project Draco Revealed - Screens and Gameplay Details
After a gameplay demonstration at this years Tokyo Game Show, we bring you all of the latest screenshots and gameplay details from one of Kinect's most anticipated upcoming releases.
Just What Is Fable: The Journey? - A Closer Preview
We take a deeper look at Lionheads upcoming Kinect Fable title to find out just what the game actually is; Not on rails -- on reigns.
Grasshopper Manufacture Officially Reveal Diabolical Pitch -- Video Demonstration
Having been announced last year as Codename D, Grasshopper Manufacture officially reveal their upcoming Kinect game, Diabolical Pitch. Click for all of the gameplay details as well as a video preview!
The next generation version of Babel Rising -- a popular iOS game that tasks players with preventing the building of the Tower of Babel using a variety of god-like powers -- is coming to consoles thanks to Ubisoft.
The game will hit Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network next year, replacing touch controls with motion controls with the help of Kinect and Playstation Move. Players can hurl bolts of lightning, summon earthquakes and unleash gigantic floods in an attempt to prevent the towers completion.
Ubisoft's digital offerings such as From Dust, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game and Outland have all been of notable quality. Hopefully their track record continues with this game!
The latest trailer for Ubisoft's Just Dance 3 shows off the new Just Create mode which allows users to record and create their own custom dance moves for friends to play locally, as well as via online sharing.
With 4 player local multiplayer support too, Ubisoft clearly aren't shying away from Dance Central's huge success, packing in a host of unique features. Whether that ultimately results in a better game, we'll have to wait and see.
Check out the latest trailer below and let us know what you think!
A follow-up to Michael Jackson: The Experience is hardly surprising given Ubisoft's huge success with the dancing genre, spanning a variety of franchises and consoles, and today they have announced that the next act they're bringing to the 'Experience' singing and dancing franchise is The Black Eyed Peas.
Hitting the 360 and Wii later this year, the game will let you play through all of their hits, with the trailer below showing gameplay for 'I Gotta Feeling'. It looks like they may have left behind the Your Shape-like player projection from MJ:TE, going for a more Dance Central-esque generated character approach, which is fine by us as Dance Central still remains the reigning champion of the dancing genre.
Check out the debut trailer below, and we'll bring you more news the second it's available!
Your Shape: Fitness Evolved is Kinect's best selling fitness game, so it comes as not surprise that Ubisoft are working on a sequel. Your Shape 2012 will feature a revamped game structure, making the game more accessible and user-friendly.
Featuring over 90 hours of activities from targeted workouts to dance classes, zen sessions, boot camp, martial arts, warm up, cool downs, jump rope, running or games, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 provides users with a very broad variety of workout opportunities.Tracking has been also improved to include floor excercises such as sit-ups, and a feedback system that allows your coach to not only tell you what you're doing wrong, but how to do it right.
One of the more interesting new activities is Run The World, which will give players the chance to do interval running in a 3D rendition of New York, Paris or London. Players will be able to see the progression of their friends and use that as motivation to run just that bit further, as well as excite players with a constantly changing and evolving environment.
Ubisoft have revealed their Kinect entry into their popular Raving Rabbids franchise. Raving Rabbids: Alive and Kicking will use augmented reality to put Rabbids right into your room, ripe for a good kicking.
The game will allow 4 players to play through the various mini-games simultaneously. Check out the debut trailer below!
Ubisoft have unveiled and demonstrated Gunsmith mode for their upcoming tactical shooter, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.
Gunsmith allows users to completely customize their weapons from the insane out. Kinect allows players to select and view their weapons using voice and hand gestures, as well as test the weapon out in a firing range using Kinect to aim and fire.
The game also allows players to optimize a weapon for a specific situation using voice commands, such as close quarters combat or long range situations.
Ubisoft's Yves Guillemot finished the presentation by stating that all future titles from the Ghost Recon franchise will utilise Kinect.
Check out the gameplay demonstration from Microsoft's E3 conference below!
Ubisoft have announced their E3 line-up today via press release. There looks to be strong Kinect support given that Ubisoft "rules the casual market", if they do say so themselves, "holding the number one third-party position on Kinect, 3DS and Wii".
The line-up features a sequel to Kinect launch title MotionSports, MotionSports: Adrenaline, as well as a new title in the Your Shape series. Your Shape: Fitness Evolved is Kinect's most popular fitness title with both critics and the public, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that it is getting a sequel.
Ubisoft are also going to be showing new entries into the Just Dance and Raving Rabbids series. Just Dance, as we previously reported, is Ubisoft's biggest dancing franchise having sold over 14 million units, and the next iteration will almost certainly be expanding to Kinect as well as Nintendo's Wii. Similarly, the next Raving Rabbids is expected to be hitting Kinect.
Finally, we unveiled earlier today that Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will have Kinect support. Though there is no mention in the press release, it is likely that it will be fully revealed at their E3 press conference.
"Ubisoft has been delivering top-notch entertainment for 25 years, and we're incredibly grateful for all of our fans," said Ubisoft CEO, Yves Guillemot.
"We plan for the upcoming years to be just as exciting and full of innovation, and the wide range of creative, fun and unique titles we're demonstrating at E3 illustrate the stellar talent of our development teams and Ubisoft's ongoing investment in delivering entertaining and innovative products to consumers."
Keep checking Inside Kinect and we'll keep you up to date with the latest news as it happens.
Another day, another resume leak. This time for a character animator on LinkedIn who worked on "a spot with the Raving Rabbids for Ubisoft to introduce the concept of the Kinect".
Raving Rabbids is Ubisoft's biggest selling franchise with over 31 million units sold, and given its casual market on the Wii it's only natural that Ubisoft attempt to capture the same audience with Kinect.
Wanna know more? You probably won't have to wait long, the game will likely be announced during Ubisoft's E3 conference alongside their various other Kinect projects such as PowerUp Heroes and Dance on Broadway.
Legendary game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi - whose hits include Sega Rally Championship, Space Channel 5, Lumines, and the groundbreaking Rez - shows off his latest creation Child of Eden at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Child of Eden is a ‘synesthesia shooter’ that takes players into a kaleidoscopic matrix of synchronized music and mind-blowing visuals. Child of Eden will be a Kinect exclusive at launch. Check out the mind-blowing visuals below.
The ultimate game for Michael Jackson fans. Unlike the Wii version Michael Jackson: The Experience on Kinect for Xbox 360 allows you to sing AND dance to all your favourite tracks all with no controller required. *Sequin glove not included. This game is slated to release on April 12th in the US and April 14th everywhere else. Check out some short gameplay clips below!