Remember that time Microsoft announced thatKinect would make commercials interactive? Well now Kinect will not only let you be part of advertising, it is going to be used by companies to make their products interactive. There are, in fact, over 200 businesses and 20 brands already on board. Instead of these businesses coming to your home, the interactive experience will be in the stores, public areas or locations using the technology....

Not often a source of exclusives,Amazon.comnevertheless has a new trailer ofSuper Mario Galaxy, a game that many of us are seeking as salvation this Christmas. The above video ticks all the Wii trailer boxes — bright colors and token shots of morons waggling the controllers around havingsuch a nice time. On a side note, can we just stop it with the footage of people waving the Wiimotes and grinning inanely? I think everybody’s got it now, and I’m sick to death of watching these cringeworthy fools demonstrate what prats we will all get to look like....

[For hisNext-GenBloggers Wanted essay response, Jinx 01 tackled the industry trend of gussying-up screenshots. Want to see your own words appear on the front page?Go write something!–Mr Andy Dixon] How do you sell gamers on next-gen graphics after years of faked screenshots? “Bullshot” is a common industry term for promotional screenshots that have been doctored to make a game look better than it really is. They tend to have flawless anti-aliasing, higher quality textures, and higher resolutions....

Hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry You know how this goes. PAX West badges go up for sale, PAX West badges sell out very quickly. Quit reading andhit this linkif you want a chance at buying them. Come back when you’re in the queue. All queued up? Good. Here are the other details: PAX West badges went on sale at 12pm Pacific today — the exact time we’re posting this. In recent years, Penny Arcade has done away with four-day passes, instead opting for convention-goers to buy badges for individual days....

‘Hopefully in months’ It looks likeCharlie Murderis a bit closer than everyone thought. At PAX East, Ska Studios confirmed that it’s putting the finishing touches on the punk rock beat-’em-up. James Silva stated that after they work out a few bugs, the game will be ready to send to certification. Silva confirmed thatCharlie Murderwill be out in 2013, and went as far as to say that he expects it to be within months assuming that everything goes smoothly....

First hands-on preview Yup, you read that headline correctly. Platinum Games, the maker of such fine titles asMad World,Bayonetta,Metal Gear Rising,The Wonderful 101, and more, is creating a game based onThe Legend of Korraseries. It’s being published by Activision as a download-only title for PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4. We all saw the reveal teaser yesterday, but now it’s time I told you how the game plays....

Will be down until around 9PM Pacfic PlayStation Network will be down all day today as Sony does some upgrading to the PlayStation Store software. The downtime started at 5:00AM Pacific, and is expected to be down until around 9:00PM Pacific. If you signed into the PlayStation Network within the last five days however, you should be able to play games online and use apps like Netflix, Hulu, Music Unlimited during the downtime....

Sony probably wishes it charged sooner All through last generation, I kept hearing the same thing from developers I spoke too — Sony should tie online play to a PlayStation Plus subscription. So they did on PS4, and it’s been wildly successful, due in part to Sony’s crazy install base. Just this week Sony broke down its new numbers through its Investor Day report, noting that it has 20.8 million paid subscriptions for PlayStaton Plus, which is roughly half of the entire PS4 owning community....

Pax Deiwas announced in March 2023 and officially enters early access on Steam on Jul 20, 2025. Ahead of theFounder’s Packs going liveand players flooding the servers, developer Mainframe Industries invited me to take a look at the game and get a sense of its vision. CallingPax Deian MMO would be underselling it. Once players load into the game, they’re able to choose their server, which is a chunk of the 400 square kilometer space available at launch....

It looks like the latest SEGA game to get the HD treatment is non other than Shadow’s debut game,Sonic Adventure 2. As per the usual, it looks like leaderboards, achievements and trophies will be supported. Keep going SEGA, you only have a little ways to go before you bring over the entire Dreamcast library!Eurogamer had previously reportedthat it was possibly slated for an October release, but it wasn’t until this week that SEGA officially confirmed it....

Well that was unexpected Oh Sonic Central. You were about to leave us with “here’s a remaster” and “a bunch of merch and collaborations,” but you just had to give us one more tease! Right as the stream was about to end, Sega gave us that classic “one more thing.” For a few seconds Sonic ran through a forest and presented the below symbol for us all to speculate on. Folks noticed this earlier this week when they saw a not-quiteSonic Colorstease inthe recent fan appreciation video....

Although it was an instant hit the moment it came out (selling2 million copies in 24 hour) hype forSons of the Foresthas definitely dropped off recently. Developer Endnight Games is still improving on it, and the latest patch adds some new things while also giving more love to helper NPC Kelvin. The notes on the game’sSteam pageshow exactly what’s been implemented in Patch 12. For starters, there’s now a pickaxe, a brand-new cave, more emote actions for Virginia, and more....

Some more details and a lot of things still unclear Last night, Sonyannounced the survival-themedLet it Diefrom Suda51’s Grasshopper Manufacture. As has been the case with recent Grasshopper titles, Suda is serving as executive director, not main game director, though he is, “much closer to the team” this time around, he told me through a translator. Despite this,Let it Die, which is slated for 2015, will be a huge departure for Grasshopper....