Microsoft Kinect For Xbox 360 Available November 4

 

Microsoft recently announced the new Xbox 360 Slim at E3 as well as the new Kinect motion control. Both now have the same glossy black finish. The new Kinect will be available on November 4 with matching game titles:

• Kinectimals - Nintendogs but with wild and impossibly cute animals
• Kinect Sports - Soccer, bowling, track and field games, a bit like Wii Sports
• Joyride - "Thrill of high speed kart racing, with the joy of controller-free gaming"
• Kinect Adventures - Jumping around and stuff
• Your Shape: Fitness Evolved - most amazing looking fitness game we've seen yet, from Ubisoft
• Dance Central - an actual, honest to gosh dance game without stupid pads -- from Harmonix

The new Kinect will be priced at $149.99. Available for pre-order on GameStop right now.

Source Engadget, GameStop

New Xbox 360 Slim Features

Today at the E3 Conference, Microsoft announced a redesign to the Xbox 360. It is now called the "Slim" The main features of it are that it is smaller, quieter, it has built-in WiFi and a 250 GB hard drive. The wait for the new Xbox 360 Slim is very short as it is shipping today and will be in stores later this week. The new Xbox 360 Slim costs $299, the same price as the existing 250 GB model. 

The new Xbox 360 Slim is mainly glossy black and seems to have more vents for better heat dispersion and it has a sharper indent than the current hourglass design. 

Update: Now with video.

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Source Engadget

Microsoft Kinect Gets Official

 
  Microsoft not long ago, officially announced the new Kinect and released official product images. For more info and images, hit up the link below.

Source Engadget

Microsoft Kinect Revealed

Microsoft's new Project Natal motion controlled setup official name was leaked today by USA Today, official name: Kinect. The official announcement, price and release date will soon be announced by Microsoft on E3 later this week.

Source Engadget

Google Hates Windows

The Financial Times is saying that Google is banning the use of Windows internally. This is in light of the security breach caused by Chinese hackers; Google's IT team are saying that they "feel that Microsoft's OS represents too great a risk across the enterprise to keep using it."

Google has always allowed employees to choose what OS they want to work on. But as of now they can only choose between Mac and Linux, (I know which one I would choose...) as installing Windows on desktops is "strictly forbidden." Because of the "security risk." However, all those Windows fanboys over at Google can still use Windows but only on Laptops.

So what will happen to all that Wintel hardware? Well, they will either run Linux or Google's upcoming Chrome OS, but adding Mac OS X will mean buying Mac hardware. Maybe that's what the Steve-Eric Coffee Summit was all about as Eric said that "truckloads of MacBook Pros heading for the Googleplex."

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