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Exercise Video Games Burn Calories
A new study finds that ‘exergames’, or video games that allow for exercise provide real calorie-burning power and energy expenditure, often higher than walking 3 miles on a treadmill. Researchers, Bruce W. Bailey of at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and Kyle McInnis of the University of Massachusetts in Boston studied energy expenditures of…
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Dance Central Video Game Review: A Whole New Way To Groove
Dance Central is one of the exciting and interactive games available from the new Xbox Kinect game system. As the name implies, the system is an interactive platform that relies on your movement and is without controllers. It is an advanced version of motion gaming, surpassing the technology of the Wii’s motion gaming platform which…
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Motion Gaming Taking Over Video Game Industry Action
Motion gaming is the new face of interactive video game action, and there’s no going back. First introduced by the Nintendo Wii, motion gaming has revolutionized the way we play, the way we exercise, the way we spend time together as a family. Both Sony and Microsoft have built upon the foundation that Nintendo laid…
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Kinect Fitness Games Gets High Marks For Customized Fitness Experience
The Xbox 360 is more than a gaming system, and the Microsoft Kinect is more than a savvy little add-on. Along with video game action, the Xbox 360 also plays DVDs, streams media, and combined with the Kinect, offers players a totally immersible, interactive, motion gaming experience that is controller free, and very different from…
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Xbox 360 Sets Microsoft Record, Nintendo Wins Most Sales 2010
Despite the fact that the video gaming industry as a whole experienced a decline, Xbox 360 had a stellar year, and Nintendo topped the charts for most gaming hardware sales for 2010. PlayStation 3 comes in third place, which was not the plan with the release of the popular PS3 Move motion controller. Microsoft has…
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Microsoft Kinect To Get PC Support in the Future
While no formal release announcements were made at the CES 2011, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, did hint that the Kinect motion sensor add-on to the Xbox 360 will be getting PC support in the future. How far into the future we’re not sure, we’re hoping its the ‘near’ future. During an interview with BBC…
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Avatar Kinect Expands Motion Sensor Technology Applications on Xbox 360
One of the upcoming products that debuted at the CES 2011 opening event was a sophisticated demonstration of the Avatar Kinect. As last year, Microsoft gave the keynote presentation that officially kicked of the CES 2011, and they did not disappoint. While there was no talk of tablets at all, Steve Bellmar, CEO for Microsoft…
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Fitness Themed Video Games Dominate Top 10 Bestsellers List for Xbox 360
With the extensive and phenomenal game line up that the Xbox 360 offers players, we were just a tad bit surprised that it was fitness games that are dominating the bestseller list for this popular gaming system. Then we looked a little closer and realized that each of those five fitness themed games was in…
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Microsoft Chief Declares 2011 The Year of the Kinect
The Xbox 360 gaming system has been the number one selling gaming console for more than 6 months strait, and Microsoft has indicated that they believe that the Kinect will define the brand for the upcoming year in a profound and exciting way. This is not at all hard to believe based on the fact…
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Microsoft Not Interested In Sex Themed Video Game
Microsoft has announced in no uncertain terms that they do not condone nor have any interest in the sex themed game that is being developed by ThriXXX, an adult entertainment company. ThriXXX revealed that they had hacked the Kinect sensor device that was recently released for the Xbox 360, and provides controller free interactive motion…