News Tagged: Upcoming Games
News: Wreckateer is Like Angry Birds But For Kinect
From Iron Galaxy
Wreckateer is a new Kinect-exclusive game heading to Xbox Live Arcade later this year. A physics-based score attack game, according to our friends at Eurogamer.net, the game is "highly reminiscent of Angry Birds" — players use a catapult to lob iron balls to destroy castles. The castles aren't occupied by green pigs —.. Continue Reading »
News: Fruit Ninja Kinect Release Date and Price Confirmed
Coming to fruition in August
We love Fruit Ninja Kinect here at Kinectaku — that much should be obvious from our exhaustive Fruit Ninja Kinect preview. Thankfully, the rest of you will be lucky enough to experience this amazing title on the 10th of August, because it's being launched as part of Microsoft's Summer of Arcade 2011. The Big M has just confirmed the release date, along with that.. Continue Reading »
News: Kung Fu Panda 2 to Chop Kinect in May
Film tie-in gets motion outing
The original Kung Fu Panda on Xbox 360 wasn't the most inspiring of movie tie-ins, fun though it was to smash and roll through the world as porky panda Po. For the follow-up, publisher THQ has gone with the only controller capable of putting Po's kung fu moves into the gaming world: Kinect. The recently announced tie-in for the upcoming Dreamworks animated film, Kung.. Continue Reading »
News: Dance on Broadway Will Step to Kinect in 2011
Ubisoft continuing support
Now Ubisoft owns the third-party Kinect market the international publisher isn't resting on its laurels, hoping to crack the lucrative dance genre this year with the launch of Dance on Broadway later this year. Already released on Wii, with a PlayStation Move version scheduled for launch in March, the Kinect edition hasn't yet been officially announced but several.. Continue Reading »
Features: Five Kinect Games to Move You in 2011
The sensor's future laid bare
Here at Kinectaku we've got every Kinect game reviewed, but if the sensor's back catalogue does nothing for you then there's still plenty of exciting titles on the way in 2011 that could change your mind. Here's our pick of five games to keep your eye on in the next twelve months. Child of Eden: A spiritual successor to.. Continue Reading »
News: Rise of Nightmares Reconfirmed for 2011 Release
Sega's secretive project on course
Some Kinect games are frightening enough already, but Sega wants to give sensor owners a real scare next year with the release of Rise of Nightmares, the first horror game on the way to Kinect in 2011. Very little is known about the game so far, other than an early trailer revealed during Tokyo Games Show 2010 and Sega's succinct summary below: Rise of Nightmares.. Continue Reading »
News: Sarbakan Bringing a Brace of Kinect Titles in 2011
Experienced developer gets to work
You might not know the name Sarbakan Game Studio, but you will next year, when the Quebec-based developer launches the two Kinect titles it's just announced for release in 2011. Although the initial press release doesn't reveal any details about the studio's plans, in the past the team has worked on over 600 releases across various platforms, with games as diverse.. Continue Reading »
News: Kinect's Core Offering to Blast Off in 2011
Lots on the way
There's no two ways about it: Kinect's current software line-up isn't aimed at the core gamer. That won't be the case forever though, Microsoft's UK marketing maestro Stephen McGill assures us. Referring to the Tokyo Game Show revelations of the return of Steel Battalion and Suda51's codename: D, McGill says Microsoft has plenty more titles like that up its sleeves: We'll start.. Continue Reading »
News: Raise Your Own Unicorn or Lizard with THQ's Fantastic Pets
Or a cat or dog, if that's your thing
Kinectimals may be getting the lion's share of attention when it comes to pet games for Kinect, but THQ wants to take a bite out of that, announcing its own title Fantastic Pets. Fantastic Pets is notable for being the first Augmented Reality game for Kinect, meaning the player is projected onto the screen and merged with computer graphics. PlayStation 3 users.. Continue Reading »
