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 ...

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 — ...

Anyone remember Xbox Kinect? It was this strange-looking motion-sensing peripheral for the Xbox 360, and later Xbox One, which used a camera to track the gamer's movements. First unveiled at E3 2009 ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This year, it feels like Xbox is basically backing down from the so-called console wars. Instead, ...

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 ...