Project Natal

Molyneux: Project Natal support for Fable 3

Gaming maestro Peter Molyneux has officially confirmed that the next version of Fable, Fable 3, for the Xbox 360 will be Project Natal enabled.

"Fable 3 will have Natal support. Is that an announcement? #molyneux", Nicholas Lovell, founder of Gamesbrief, non-exec...

Microsoft Project Natal not just for the boardroom

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO has echoed comments by Bill Gates earlier in the year saying that Project Natal could make it in to the boardroom.

In an interview with the BBC's business editor, Robert Peston, Ballmer told how "customers" are already asking...

Project Natal: EA, Ubisoft, Konami and others sign up

Microsoft has said that it has signed big name publishers like EA and Activision to create new games for it's yet to be released Project Natal.

Talking at the Tokyo Games Show in Japan, Microsoft confirmed that publishers actively working on games for “Project...

THQ latest to confirm Project Natal coming 2010

THQ boss Brian Farrell is the latest bigwig to confirm that Microsoft’s Project Natal technology will get a 2010 launch.

Making the comments in an earnings report for the company, the CEO says the Xbox 360’s motion-sensing camera peripheral will...

Microsoft working on Project Natal for Windows

It's been revealed that Microsoft is looking at extending its coming-soon motion controlling Project Natal system to PCs as well as the Xbox platform.

According to none other than Microsoft's Bill Gates, the company is considering such camera-based controls...

Sony patents everyday objects as game controllers

A Sony patent could point to more motion controlled gaming than just the wand-based system the company has currently demoed.

Sharing a fair bit in common with Microsoft's Project Natal motion control system, the recently-revealed patent sees Sony gamers using...

Microsoft gets confused, denies new console

Despite Steve Ballmer being quoted by numerous sources as saying that "a new Xbox 360 will hit the store shelves in 2010", Microsoft's Director of Product Management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, Aaron Greenberg, has come out saying "there will be no console".

"We're...

Xbox 360 Project Natal coming in 2010

"Project Natal", Microsoft's answer to the Nintendo Wii's popular motion controlled gaming, will be with us in 2010, it's been revealed.

No timescale had previously been put on the system, currently at prototype stage, until now, with the confirmation from...

Project Natal to ship with "new" Xbox?

Rumours unearthed by gaming website 1Up suggest that there's going to be a new Xbox console next Autumn, which will include Project Natal's wireless control functionality.

It's going to be more than just an Xbox 360 with a camera, the rumours claim. Instead,...

Nintendo "rejected" camera controls

Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, has told the Financial Times that his company tried out similar technology to Microsoft and Sony's new camera controls, but that the results turned out better with the accelerometers that the Wii currently uses.

While the...

VIDEO: "Your Shape" for Wii from Ubisoft

Ubisoft has revealed what can now be described as a rival to Microsoft's Project "your-body-is-the-controller" Natal with a new fitness game that tracks body movement.

Although only for one title so far, the "Your Shape" game, comparisons between Ubisoft's camera-based...

VIDEO: Microsoft Xbox 360's Project Natal

Microsoft has announced it is to launch "the best controller ever invented - you". Hit play to see the prototype system in action and we will keep you posted with news of the system's development as we get it.

Microsoft reveals Project Natal for Xbox 360

"You are the controller", Microsoft has announced during its E3 2009 keynote speech.

Rather than offer a Nintendo Wii-rivalling motion-sensing controller, Microsoft has revealed "Project Natal", a way of controlling video games using only your body movements...