Pour one out for Microsoft’s toy that allows players to flap their limbs around like a crazy person—the Kinect for Xbox is dead. The news comes from Fast Company and was officially confirmed by ...

When I think about online commercials and embedded spots and advertising in general, I imagine Malcolm McDowell strapped into a chair, his eyes pried open. I think about volume jacking — TV ads that ...

The Nex Playground brings motion-tracked games to the entire family. Consider it the best of the Xbox Kinect in a tiny box.

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 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, ...

Of all major game publishers, Nintendo is the one most associated with bizarre controls. From the Virtual Boy to the Wiimote, Nintendo's history is studded with unorthodox new ways to play games — ...