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Winter Sports 3 – A chilly Kinect Game? | KINECT Games News | Kinect GAMES List | Kinect Forum | Reviews. Home > Kinect News > Winter Sports 3 – A chilly Kinect Game? Combining info on the web in order to figure out what’s next in the land of Kinect Games is one of the things we love to do, and by the looks of it there will be another one: Winter Sports 3 is a game heading to Xbox Kinect this Spring! IGN describes this game as a collection of eight winter sports, like bobsledding, figure skating, and snowboarding.

This title has also been released on the Wii last year. Please give it some improvements over the Wii version before releasing it to the Xbox 360, Zoo Games, we know you can! Read on to get a tad more info on this soon to be Kinect game. Amazon gives us the additional information: Realistic and thrilling criminal casesSingle race mode with more than 40 tracksBattle friend in split screen modeAdvanced opponent AI Expected date of release, 29th of March 2011. Thanks WyrdMystic, IGN. Of course Carnival Games is coming to Kinect this April- Destructoid. Cute Fantastic Pets Screenshots! | KINECT Games News | Kinect GAMES List | Kinect Forum | Reviews. Avatar Kinect demos face-mapping tech. A new demo of the forthcoming new 'Avatar Kinect' service for Microsoft Kinect shows off the latest developments in facial mapping tech.

The Kinect facial mesh will be able to map the user's face in order to create a fully expressive, realistic speaking animation in the game. The video below gives a good idea of how we might well be chatting with our mates on Xbox Live and interacting with our games later this year, courtesy of our recently-acquired new Kinect cams. Face-tracking for better chatting The demo shows Kinect's generated 3D mesh tracking a user's movements and then applying them to his own Xbox Avatar in real time.

Avatar Kinect was a major announcement for Microsoft at CES 2011. Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer showed a short highlight reel at last week's event which gave a teaser of what was in store later in the year for Xbox 360 Kinect users with Xbox Live Gold accounts. Ballmer said Avatar Kinect will be free for all Xbox Live Gold members when it arrives later this spring. Kinect - Gizmodo. Netflix and Hulu Plus with Kinect coming this spring to Xbox 360. Ballmer promises Kinect for PC support in the future. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, has promised that the company will support Kinect for PC in the future.

Speaking to the BBC’s Click online program Ballmer revealed that Microsoft is planning to support Kinect on PC in the future. “We’re trying to move beyond gaming to include the world of socialization, movies, TV, music, and we’re trying to make the whole experience accessible to everybody in the family not just the traditional gamer,” said Ballmer. The BBC asked Ballmer “Will you plug-in the Kinect to the PC, will you go for that in the near future?” Ballmer confirmed Microsoft’s plans to bring Kinect support to the PC. Microsoft is expected to integrate Kinect support into its next version of Windows. Footage copyright of BBC. At 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES): Video Gallery.

Michael Jackson gets Kinect screens! | KINECT Games News | Kinect GAMES List | Kinect Forum | Reviews. Home > Kinect News > Michael Jackson gets Kinect screens! CVG posted some screens of Michael Jackson’s upcoming Kinect game called Michael Jackson: The Experience, and then took them offline again. Fortunately, 123Kinect was able to save the screenshots just for you! Checkout the first batch of the Michael Jackson Kinect Screenshots after the break! The video game shots show off a few people movin’ and shakin’ to the sounds of Bad, Beat It and Thriller in a number of iconic locations. Michael Jackson Kinect Screenshots Michael Jackson: The Experience has sold over two million copies since it launched for Wii, DS and PSP in November, according to publisher Ubisoft.

Earlier, we were able to locate a gameplay video of this Kinect game, check it out! Michael Jackson Kinect Game Screenshots What are you first impressions based on these screenshots of this Kinect game? Michael Jackson’s the Experience is expected to be available April 14th, 2011. Thanks CVG.