The United Way of Beaumont recently gathered community leaders, partners and supporters for its 2026 Empty Bowls Program & Luncheon, an event that showcased unique, community-painted bowls to raise ...

You might not have heard of the Nex Playground, but it’s a tiny gaming system built entirely around Kinect-like games. With its camera and computer vision processing, the $249 Nex Playground can track ...

The Nex Playground brings motion-tracked games to the entire family. Consider it the best of the Xbox Kinect in a tiny box. Honestly, I'm just happy it gets my kids off the couch. I do my best to ...

Charlotte Observer readers donated nearly $84,400 to the paper’s Empty Stocking Fund this holiday season to help local families in need, Salvation Army officials said this week. The Salvation Army of ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In September — before the Black Friday and holiday shopping events kicked off — Sony announced it had sold 84.2 million PlayStation 5 units – ...

The conventional wisdom is that Kinect was an albatross on Xbox One, making the system more expensive at launch and taking away resource power. But now, over a decade later, the Kinect-like Nex ...

The Nex Playground is probably the most popular video game console in the US that most people don't even know exists. Case in point: Circana senior director Mat Piscatella has revealed that the cube ...

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 ...

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--World Kinect Corporation (NYSE: WKC) today announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of the Trip Support Services (TSS) division of Universal Weather ...

This year, it feels like Xbox is basically backing down from the so-called console wars. Instead, the company is focusing on developing great games with a multiplatform focus. So while there will ...

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, ...

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 ...