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Microsoft announced a new option for advertisers at the Cannes International Advertising Festival this week. The Xbox Kinect gaming console is going to use voice and motion commands to let consumers ...

The new Kinect is kind of awesome. Just by the numbers, it’s a huge upgrade. You can see (most of) the full walkthrough we saw just a bit ago here at Microsoft’s Redmond campus in the video above.

The Kinect will never die. Microsoft debuted its motion-sensing camera on June 1st, 2009, showing off a handful of gimmicky applications for the Xbox 360; it promised easy, controller-free gaming for ...

Microsoft’s Xbox One might owe its existence to traditional controller-based gaming, but that doesn’t mean that’s where Microsoft thinks the console future is. Microsoft is hoping that a newly ...

Microsoft's motion-gaming peripheral has once again been hacked. This time, a band called Echo Lake has used the platform to create a music video for "Young Silence." CNET contributor Don Reisinger is ...

Dan Nixon and Don Jones recently shot a video for the band Echo Lake, featuring its song Young Silence. The video itself it pretty cool, and seems to fit the song’s almost dream-like sound well. But ...

New Avatar Kinect software lets you video chat using your Xbox cartoon. It uses the Kinect sensor bar to track your facial movements -- read on for all the info. Luke Westaway Senior editor Luke ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. When the Kinect was released last year, the launch titles used Microsoft's new hands-free motion sensor almost exclusively. But as time has gone on, ...

What if, the next time you played a video game, the main character not only looked like you but had the same body, same clothes, same everything? How would it change the way you related to the game?

This had to happen: Just three years after Radiohead used pro-level laser LIDAR scanners to craft a 3-D music video unlike any you’d seen before, an enterprising hacker has tweaked a Microsoft Kinect ...