Event: Microsoft Open House – part 2

September 10, 2010 in Events, Featured

For those that missed the first part of Microsoft’s Open House breakdown, the show kicked off tin full swing, covering Foxtel for 360, Halo Reach and Fable III. Now with all of the tech and games out of the way, Microsoft decided to stop procrastinating and show all their guests what they were there to see, the new “revolutionary” (Wii pun intended) technology, Kinect.

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Event: Microsoft Open House – Part 1

September 3, 2010 in Events, Featured

Mornings are never a gamers friend, and when it comes to those in the games industry, night is the best time to collect us all together for a little show and tell. When I noticed the open house presentation was during the daylight, I’ll admit, I was a little twitchy. However, the event would give me some solid hands-on time with Microsoft’s newest toy Kinect, plus a chance to laugh at other games journalists as they feebly attempted to bust moves with Dance Central. Armed with three coffees worth of caffeine and several hours sleep I headed out to Sydney’s Luna Park to rep DLC, try out Kinect and see what all the fuss was about. Read the rest of this entry →