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 Nex Playground brings motion-tracked games to the entire family. Consider it the best of the Xbox Kinect in a tiny box. Honestly, I'm just happy it gets my kids off the couch. I do my best to ...

An inevitability of console gaming is that your hardware will age out. It will get outperformed by a next-generation console with higher specifications and support for fancier graphics. Now that we ...

Those still on Xbox One, Xbox One S, and Xbox Series X just got some great news to start 2026. Obviously, it has been 13 calendar years since the launch of the Xbox One. And while the Xbox One is not ...

The conventional wisdom is that Kinect was an albatross on Xbox One, making the system more expensive at launch and taking away resource power. But now, over a decade later, the Kinect-like Nex ...

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, ...

In 2010, when Microsoft unveiled the Kinect, it pitched the camera as a revolutionary new gaming device. Swing an imaginary lightsaber and that would be translated onscreen. Throw a football and it ...

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 — ...

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This weekend, Microsoft revealed that two new updates are arriving to the Xbox One Kinect. The sensor, that is primarily used to map movement across a range of titles available for the Xbox One, will ...

The Xbox One got off to a rocky start when it was officially announced in 2013, but it eventually bounced back and became a fantastic place to play a host of wonderful games. Among the thousands of ...