It’s been an interesting month for creative implementations of Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor. Just a week or so ago there came news of it being used to control water features in China and now it’s ...

Microsoft has uploaded a new video to its official Xbox YouTube channel and the company is giving everyone the first official look at the new dashboard. On top of that, Microsoft is touting the Xbox ...

Phil Spencer became Head of Xbox all the way back in 2014, just a year after the ill-fated launch of Xbox One. At the time, Phil's mandate was to put the focus back on core games - and to achieve that ...

Two top executives have left Microsoft's Xbox division, leaving the future of the video game juggernaut in doubt.

One step forward, a few steps backwards. Microsoft's occasional wins with Xbox PC often come with caveats, highlighting the work still required. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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 ...

Those still on Xbox One, Xbox One S, and Xbox Series X just got some great news to start 2026. Obviously, it has been 13 calendar years since the launch of the Xbox One. And while the Xbox One is not ...

The VGChartz sales comparison series of articles are updated monthly and each one focuses on a different sales comparison using our estimated video game hardware figures. The charts include ...

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 on track to move 600,000 consoles, quadrupling last year’s sales. The Nex Playground is on track to move 600,000 consoles, quadrupling last year’s sales. is the Verge’s weekend ...

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, ...