Hackaday

Internet-Connected Consoles Are Retro Now, And That Means Problems

A long time ago, there was a big difference between PC and console gaming. The former often came with headaches. You’d fight ...
Polygon

We all laughed at Kinect Star Wars but it had bops

Being a Star Wars fan has always been a roller-coaster ride, with stratospheric highs and Glup Shitto lows. And then there’s Kinect Star Wars. In April 2012, just months before Disney announced plans ...
IGN

The Top 20 Games That Defined the Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 turns 20 years old today, and so what better time to look back at the games that most defined the console. The 360 was not only the most successful machine Microsoft has ever made, but ...
Rolling Stone

The 20 Best Xbox 360 Games of All Time

Nowadays, everything is an Xbox — or so Microsoft would have you believe. The advent of the Netflix-like Game Pass subscription has become the tech company’s top priority, shifting their focus from ...
The Escapist

Xbox Kinect turns 15 and bam, no one cares what the bottom of an avatar’s shoe looks like

The Xbox Kinect has turned 15, and we’re all grateful the industry got over its obsession with whatever Nintendo was up to at the time. Announced in 2009 as Project Natal, with hindsight being 20:20, ...
The Verge

How a bunch of hackers freed the Kinect from the Xbox

In 2010, when Microsoft unveiled the Kinect, it pitched the camera as a revolutionary new gaming device. Swing an imaginary lightsaber and that would be translated onscreen. Throw a football and it ...
Inverse

15 Years Ago, The Kinect Turned Gaming Into A Full-Body Activity

Of all major game publishers, Nintendo is the one most associated with bizarre controls. From the Virtual Boy to the Wiimote, Nintendo's history is studded with unorthodox new ways to play games — ...
GamesRadar+

"If Gears 1 was Alien, the rest of the franchise was Aliens": Former Gears of War art director reckons the Xbox shooter franchise lost its horror edge over the years

Gears of War's original art director has recalled how strongly influenced the first game was by the horror genre, a style that was diluted over time in the sequels, as he compared them to the Alien ...
SlashGear

Xbox Kinect May Be Dead, But Its Spirit Lives On In These Devices

Anyone remember Xbox Kinect? It was this strange-looking motion-sensing peripheral for the Xbox 360, and later Xbox One, which used a camera to track the gamer's movements. First unveiled at E3 2009 ...
GamesRadar+

Alien: Isolation writer says the game "is too scary" for a lot of people and "we probably could've sold more if we'd watered it down," and speaking for the scaredy cats, I'm so ...

Alien: Isolation is one of the most terrifying games I've ever played, and even its own writer admits it's straight-up too scary for a lot of people. Chatting on the FRVR podcast, former Creative ...
Yardbarker

Developer of Alien: Isolation Reveal The Real Monster Was The Runtime

A developer recently came out and stated that Alien: Isolation‘s famously long 20-hour runtime was actually an unexpected outcome. In an interview with the FRVR podcast, the game’s writer, Dion Lay, ...