To be able to use Kinect features on the upcoming Xbox One S console, you'll need to get an adapter, which costs $40. There's a pre-order listing on Amazon right now (via @Wario64). It appears the ...

For all the successes we've seen in the world of games, the industry has experienced its share of failures. The Xbox Kinect was arguably one of the biggest missteps in gaming history, mostly because ...

In 2013, Microsoft chose to price the Xbox One at $500, a full $100 more than its main competitor, the PlayStation 4. The price difference was due to the inclusion of the Kinect camera, a sensor ...

After falling in love with videogames during the days of the GameCube, Michael Beckwith has been writing about them since 2014. After graduating from university with a degree in Computer Games Design ...

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You might not be aware unless you’re up on the latest gaming hardware, but Microsoft is trying to kill the Kinect. While the Xbox One famously included it as a mandatory pack-in accessory at launch ...

Innovation doesn’t always stand the test of time. It’s been over seven years since Microsoft’s Kinect landed, but a dwindling user base and dimished interest from developers forced Microsoft to pull ...

The Kinect is truly dead. The essential ingredient to your Xbox One package advertised all these years ago was Microsoft’s Kinect, back in 2013 many fans were outraged to see that Microsoft was ...

Microsoft had big plans for its motion-sensing Xbox camera, Kinect, but things did not work out exactly as the company wanted. And now, after selling millions across its Xbox 360 and Xbox One versions ...

I'm old enough to remember when the Kinect was a central feature of Microsoft's Xbox One platform. The quixotic depth sensing camera was meant to transform the way we played video games, watched TV ...

On Tuesday, Polygon reported that Microsoft had killed the USB adapter for the ahead-of-its-time motion sensor for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. That adapter let the Kinect work with the modern Xbox One ...

Despite making a splash when it launched for the Xbox 360 in 2010, the Kinect never seemed to find a foothold in the market. There simply weren't ever enough games that utilized the hardware to make ...