Microsoft's Kinect is currently the talk of the town. With its full-body, no-controller input, people are finding that for the first time they can play a video game without needing a controller. Those people obviously weren't around in 1993.
If they had been, they'd know that Kinect is actually the second attempt from a major video game manufacturer at selling a full-body, motion-sensing peripheral. The first came from Sega, and was released in 1993.
SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.
GamesIndustry.biz writes: "Relic is best known for the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, and recently developed the new Age of Empires for Microsoft. Relic will transition to an independent studio and will no-longer be part of the Sega group of studios.
The majority of the 240 job cuts are across Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while there will be a ‘small number’ cut from Sega HARDLight. There was no mention of other Sega UK studios, including Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive."
Shame about Creative Assembly, they should have just been allowed to do an Alien Isolation sequel.
It was that garbage coh 3 that did them in only a special team can make a sequel worse in every way even though it was a 10 year gap and the same era.
Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive probably run on a shoe string budget so that fits into SEGA better lol
Sega had such a turbulent existence from the mid-90s to when they dropped out of console manufacturing entirely in 2001, it’s understandable if you’ve never heard of the Genesis Nomad.
Too soon Sega, too soon.
Whatever gaming hardware idea people can think of, Sega probably made it first. They put minigames in a controller!
was to just take Sega's awesome ideas that failed because it was simply too soon, and perfect them. Dreamcast started online gaming for the consoles, then the Xbox took that idea and ran and started a new era of console gaming. And now they apparently took Sega's original idea for the full body controller nonsense, as well, and made Kinect, and also perfected that and sold a bajillion.
Poor Sega.
You mean kinect is forth. Why do they act like pseye and eyetoy never existed?
Oh right it's from kotaku.
Kinect the fastest gaming peripheral in history
for one reason a lot of Sheep,who believe what M$ says