From GamerZines: "We know you're excited for Halo 4, Gears of War 3, and Forza Motorsport 4, but there's one piece of software announced during Microsoft's E3 press conference that you can get your hands on right now; Kinect Fun Labs, a free hub for new gadgets that, in the eyes of Microsoft, will enhance your Xbox 360 experience. So let's check it out."
With the continued absence of Joseph Barron (Kwalee) Nick Lynch once again stakes his claim for the host’s chair. But lo, he has tales of Child of eden, Papa Roch and kinect fun labs mars rover landing. Mark Craven is swinging a crowbar like its 1998. While Richard Plant (Gameforge) sounds off about Kickstarter, The Walking Dead, and tries his best to verbalise ‘To the Moon’.
Runtime – 01:11:32
Episode Number – 118
What Games – Black Mesa, machinarium, Rayman origins, child of eden, Fun labs, the walking dead, to the moon, wii u, Project Eternity, Gary Whitta, Telltale, introversion, Humble bundle, Kickstarter, obsidian
James Steel writes -
"Kinect Fun Labs is certainly case of promise vs. reality. Announced at E3 2011, the new application promised fun, quirky, experimental side projects that aimed to show off unique ideas and concepts for the Kinect. While some of that may be true, there’s definitely potential for so much more. The unfortunate reality has resulted in paid-for widgets that are pretty shallow. While I’m not going to argue that I haven’t had fun with the current offerings such as Googly Eyes, Build a Buddy and Air Band, it’s far from what the service should have been.
Imagine of the Kinect Fun Labs application was much more open, just like the Indie Games platform, allowing developers to release free or cheap experimental applications for Kinect gamers to play. There’s certainly been a huge influx of Kinect titles recently, more so with ‘Kinect features’, but there’s nothing quite like community projects."
Gaming Update's CM Boots-Faubert takes a look at The Kinect Fun Labs and its most recent add-ins in an exploration of the utilities and apps that offer gamers a deep exploration of the capabilities of Microsoft's Xbox 360 Kinect motion-sensing controller.
its a good direction for kinect.but they really need to show off the goods as promised from last years e3. unfortunately i still think the kinect is laggy and the implementation into core games will make them worse rather than enhance the experience.
i guess time will tell
sorry guys im just copying and pasting this msg ..just for the xbox users :)
We should stop to log into xbl ..or just dont turn on the xbox for 2 week...we should do something a sort of strike to make understand microsoft that we want CORE GAMES..without kinect..or at least that u can use for a different type of gameplay..like the move in virtua tennis...killzone ecc ecc (that with move is unplayble but anyway!)......hoping that microsoft get back on steps and start to understand what we want seriously