EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: kinectsports
Microsoft made the ice cool announcement yesterday that a glossy white Xbox 360 Kinect family bundle has already gone on sale in the US and would become available very soon around the world.
Today, Xbox 360 South Africa has confirmed that the country will also be receiving this limited edition bundle with price and release date information in tow, while everybody’s favourite Xbox frontman Major Nelson has released an excellent video overview of the bundle, too.
Microsoft has today announced a very stylish-looking, limited edition bundle that includes a white Xbox 360 and controller, as well as a pristine white Kinect device.
After announcing the news last week, it’s been confirmed that a new world record has been set for ‘the largest online 100 metre sprint,’ thanks to Kinect Sports (and you!) during the recent Xbox LIVE free weekend.
It’s just been announced that a new Guinness World Record has been set following a Kinect Sports record attempt during Xbox Nations this past weekend!
The weekend has arrived one day early and will thankfully stick around for one day longer than usual, making for a welcome four-day respite from the normal rigours and challenges of everyday life.
It’s the rigours and challenges of a handful of videogames that we have to worry about now!
What can you busy yourself with this weekend if you find a bit of extra time? Why, you could enter El33tonline’s competitions and read over a bounty of game reviews and news!
What are we going to be busy with over the next few days? Let’s find out:
The free Xbox LIVE weekend kicks off today, and to celebrate this opportunity for everybody to experience the Xbox LIVE Gold life, Microsoft and Xbox 360 will be hosting a special event on Saturday – a Guinness World Record attempt in Kinect Sports!
Dubbed ‘Xbox Nations,’ this event will be taking place at 7pm (South African) and invites everyone with a Kinect and a copy of Kinect Sports to participate. But… what if you don’t have Kinect Sports?
Well, El33tonline and Xbox 360 South Africa tried to remedy that situation for a few of you by holding a quick-fire competition to win a copy of Kinect Sports to get in on the action, and we have the names of the winners!
Microsoft is holding another free weekend on Xbox LIVE starting tomorrow (Thursday, April 21st) allowing all Xbox LIVE free members the opportunity to experience the features of Xbox LIVE Gold, including online gaming and access to social networking.
This upcoming edition of the free weekend on Xbox LIVE is a little different, however, and has been dubbed ‘Xbox Nations’ to tie in with a special event running on Saturday, April 23rd - a Guinness World Record attempt for ‘the largest online 100m sprint’ in Kinect Sports.
To give you a better chance of taking part in this momentous occasion, El33tonline and Xbox 360 South Africa are giving away six copies of Kinect Sports (for use with a Kinect device), and you can easily enter our competition to stand a chance of winning one of the games.
You’ll need to hurry, though! The competition closes today at 17:00 (South African), so be sure to get your entries in before then!
It’s Xbox Nations this weekend which means free Xbox LIVE for everybody! There’s also the chance to make Guinness World Record history by joining in on Saturday, the 23rd of April, at 8pm when Xbox LIVE and Kinect Sports will attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the ‘largest online 100m sprint.’
Want to join in but don’t have a copy of Kinect Sports yet? No problem, because El33tonline and Xbox 360 South Africa have teamed up to give you the chance to win six copies of Kinect Sports!
If you live in Durban or Johannesburg, simply answer an easy question to get your name in the lucky draw over here to win a copy of Kinect Sports and then join us this Saturday for the 100m sprint.
Hurry though because this competition closes tomorrow, the 20th of April, with the prizes being delivered on Thursday.
So, what are you doing this weekend readers? We’re sure that you’ve cleared your calendar already and set aside some serious gaming time because it’s Xbox Nations this weekend and that means free Xbox LIVE!
From April 21st (a Thursday) through to April 25th (the following Monday), you’ll be able to take advantage of another Xbox LIVE free weekend to get a taste of the Xbox LIVE Gold life and play online games, amongst other features.
That weekend, dubbed ‘Xbox Nations,’ will also play host to another special event: a Guinness World Record attempt in Kinect Sports via Xbox LIVE, and you can be a part of this world record if you join in on the action!
Mass Effect and Heavy Rain were two titles that came out tops at the British Academy Video Games Awards (BAFTA) recently held in London.
Heavy Rain walked away with three BAFTAs, for Original Music, Technical Innovation and Story. Mass Effect was crowned Best Game, applauded for being a “combined achievement of technology, art, design [and] audio… a beautiful complete gaming experience.”
Forming part of Microsoft Game Studios’ controller-free gaming spearhead is Kinect Sports for Xbox 360 and Kinect, a collection of sports-themed mini-games that require gamers to mimic the real-life movements of a variety of physical activities in front of the Kinect device to interact with the game.
What this means is that you’ll soon be deftly throwing air punches, frantically running on the spot, intensely curling your arm, swiping with your hands in a frenzy, kicking, jumping and lots more in an effort to increase your score and defeat your friends in the included range of sports games.
Fortunately, it all works amazingly well.
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Kinect Sports.
As you may have already guessed, Microsoft’s Kinect controller-free motion control gaming device launched in the US today, and with it, a host of games for gamers (and non-gamers) to experience a whole new way of interacting with virtual worlds, not to mention a whole new way to interact with your Xbox 360!
While we wait for the launch of Kinect here in South Africa (and other regions such as the UK and Europe) next week on November 10th, we’ve put together a healthy collection of El33tonline’s previous impressions of the some of the top games now available in the US for Kinect.
It’s a well known fact within the gaming fraternity that mini-game collections sell well. Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort are two examples, light-hearted sports mini-games that are great fun to play at a party or just with a bunch of friends, but also with a challenging enough single player mode to keep you entertained for a good number of hours.
So what’s the winning formula that Nintendo seem to have stumbled upon when it comes to mini-game collections? I would argue that the games must be easy to pick-up-and-play, suitable for players of all ages and, perhaps most importantly, they must be fun! Luckily for Kinect Sports all of these ingredients are present and Microsoft seems to have an exciting title baking in the Kinect oven for all you gamers out there.
Continue reading El33tonline’s hands-on preview of Kinect Sports.
Following the announcement that Microsoft’s controller-free, motion-sensing gaming device, Project Natal, has now officially been renamed Kinect, a number of new games and applications have been revealed that will be available for use with the technology when it’s released later this year.
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