Game

[recursivelyenumerable]

Wait, so Natal only ever existed in Cirque du Soleil's imagination?

[Sho Nuff]

How long does everyone give Natal?

Think how well the Sega Activator would have done with the power of Cirque de Soleil

[Eel O'Brian]

a year, with steadily dwindling support from day one

see also:  move

[maxy]

[huckleberry]

I blame Nintendo 

[EmCeeGrammar]

I think you guys could stand to waggle more often.  Its really fun in certain contexts. 

[huckleberry]

Fuck waggle 

- on the Wii


- on the 360


- on the PS3



You can have your waggle as long as I can have a controller or keyboard & mouse. 

[tiesto]

I definitely expected much more from waggle and the Wii, even though I had my fun with Wii Bowling and Kororinpa, waggle sucks and I would much rather prefer every game to use classic controls from now on. That said, the pointer is a great idea though, and works well in quite a few good game genres. Next gen, having regular Dual Shock/CC/etc controllers with an included pointer function will be ideal.

I have no interest in either Natal or Move, though I think Move is being sent to die and Natal will initially be more successful.

[maxy]

Natel pimping time...only few days left,name change imminent :'(

Though Microsoft won't reveal which games will launch with the device until Monday, last month it did show off four "tech demos" to a handful of journalists at its campus here. One can only assume that those games will become part of the package. The lineup is expected to include:

River Rush: What Shaun White would want in real-life river rafting, players instead can indulge in the vicarious thrill on their living room rug. Steering a virtual raft past waterfalls, rocks and other obstacles requires lots of jumping and leaning. The graphics are similar to what you'd find in snowboarding games, with giant visual cues telling players where they can go so they won't get lost. The mini-game is designed to encourage anyone to jump in and play without having to read a manual.

Ricochet: Prepare to break a sweat. Players use their arms, legs, feet and head to block a frantic barrage of soccer-sized balls. Microsoft showed an early version of this game during last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo. The latest iteration lets two people play simultaneously. Using facial recognition software, the camera checks who is playing and pulls up their personal avatars on the screen. The feature would, for example, let parents control which games their kids can play. If the console sees that the person playing is associated with a profile with parental controls, it will restrict the types of games that can be played.

Living Statue: One small step for Xbox, one giant leap for Microsoft's social media strategy. This game lets players record their avatars dancing and singing karaoke-style, then e-mail the video masterpiece to their friends. The company has long nurtured its ambitions for its Xbox Live online game service, which has 23 million active users, to become a virtual watering hole for people who play video games. Living Statue is the latest attempt to encourage its players to check into Xbox Live and make friends.

Obstacle Course: This imaginatively named title is exactly what it suggests. Players pull, dodge and jump their way through a series of levels resembling what you would find at summer camp, sans the mosquitoes.

In addition, there will be about a dozen more Natal-licensed titles from other game developers unveiled Monday and Tuesday, but Microsoft has forbidden the publishers from uttering a word about them until after its own news conference Monday morning.

Ubisoft FragDolls are excited 

Interested in Project Natal? We have some exciting news of epic proportions to share soon.

[Don Flamenco]

Netal  

anything else

[maxy]

It looks like Microsoft is already flexing their star power for their upcoming Project ‘Natal’ press conference featuring Cirque De Soleil with Jennette McCurdy best known for playing the role of Sam Puckett on Nickelodeon show iCarly. Straight from her Twitter account:

“I’m really excited to be co-hosting the Project Natal Xbox event Sunday featuring a Cirque De Soleil performance. E3! Woohoo!”

Oddly enough, the circus act is coming full-circle because Nintendo launched the Nintendo 64 at E3 back in 1996 with Cirque du Soleil performers, and this year Microsoft is launching Project Natal with Cirque du Soleil performers.

Even last year Microsoft had two Beatles present the fantastic game The Beatles: Rockband with enough enthusiasm they could muster. Let’s see if that McCurdy can win the Microsoft gaming press over. ‘WooHoo!’ indeed Jennette.

 




Some rumors from gaf also

Consider the rumor of the Xbox Slim as news. In fact, consider it a fact that the new model will have wi-fi inside (at last) and a 250hdd (99% sure abt this) .

Oh, and one of Natal's games is a... pet simulation

About "Natal real name"

No, it has the natal word in it's name. At that point, I'm not even sure if Microsoft will change the Natal moniker anyway.

[Don Flamenco]

Michael Patcher presents: Project Netal

[iconoclast]

God no. But the EBA games on the DS never really clicked with me. Might be the distinguished mentally-challenged amount of praise they get for something so boring.

I know this post is ancient, but I was the same way when I first played EBA. Normal mode was a snoozefest to play through and I didn't like the game at all. But after you beat Normal you unlock Hard mode and then it becomes AWESOME. Then after beating Hard mode you unlock a slightly harder mode and then it becomes the best game ever.

iNiS

Microsoft for hiring them to make fucking karaoke games

[maxy]

Sydney, Australia – June 10th, 2010 – Xbox Australia today announced the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2010, the world’s largest video game industry trade show, will be delivered LIVE to Australian audiences for the first time on FOXTEL’s FOX8 channel.

Be a part of entertainment history as FOX8 and Microsoft bring you the world premiere of Xbox 360?s future in a special programming event – Xbox 360: The Future Revealed. The program will be delivered live from the Xbox 360 Media Briefing at E3 2010 and includes key game announcements and breaking news from the industry event.

FOX8 will also exclusively take viewers inside the World Premiere of Project Natal for Xbox 360 featuring a customised performance by Cirque du Soleil to discover gaming without the need for a controller. Singer Kelly Rowland will host this special event.

“FOX8 is the perfect partner to exclusively break Xbox 360’s latest news and share Cirque du Soleil’s amazing Project Natal performance,” said David McLean, Head of Entertainment, Entertainment & Devices Division, Microsoft Australia. “We’re really excited about our announcements at E3 2010 and extremely pleased we can share them directly with Australian audiences.”

Xbox 360: The Future Revealed

The Xbox 360 Media Briefing will air live and commercial-free on FOX8 Tuesday, June 15 at 3:30am EST with encore programming on Tuesday, June 15 at 3:30pm EST. Xbox 360: The Future Revealed will bring all the latest news on Project Natal, Xbox LIVE and new game announcements to Australian fans in real time. This will include world premiere demos of upcoming Xbox 360 exclusive games, such as “Halo®: Reach”, “Gears of War® 3” and “Fable® III” revealed to eagerly awaiting fans worldwide.

World Premiere of Project Natal featuring Cirque du Soleil’s exclusive performance hosted by Kelly Rowland

Project Natal is set to change the way entertainment is experienced and to celebrate, Cirque du Soleil has created a tailored production that brings the idea of controller-free gaming to life. The special performance will be available exclusively to FOX8 viewers on Saturday, June 26, at 7:30pm EST.

That will be fun to see


 

[magus]

so is 7:30 PM EST 12 hours from now?

[maxy]

so is 7:30 PM EST 12 hours from now?

June 26, at 7:30pm EST.

This thing is kinda confusing,let me clear some things

Tomorrow(June 13)-Special Natal Event featuring Cirque du Soleil...no live streaming

Recorded footage will be aired on Tuesday(June 15)...sometime during Sony E3 press conf,i think

Monday(June 14)-MS press conf...live streamed everywhere

Depending on the time zone dates will shift

June 26th thing is Australia related

[Sho Nuff]

Kelly Rowland

[youtube=560,345]py_PavqqOao[/youtube]

[maxy]

On a blustery January morning, Michel Laprise found himself in a private conference room within Microsoft Corp.'s labyrinthine campus here, surrounded by 15 of the company's sharpest analytical thinkers.

Laprise started his presentation by dumping a pail full of sand on top the conference table, alarming executives who worried about the wiring embedded in the table for PowerPoint presentations and technology demos. Armed with three rocks, a small wooden elephant and a flashlight, he spent an hour weaving a tale of a boy on a quest to locate meteors that have fallen from the sky and to uncover their meaning.

At the end of his talk, the artistic director for Cirque du Soleil got a standing ovation.

Code-named Project Natal, the technology consists of three small motorized sensors — a camera, infrared depth sensor and a multi-array microphone. Attached to Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console, the device interprets gestures, such as when players swing their arms to hit a golf ball, lean to steer their way through an obstacle course or swivel their hips through a dance routine. It can also recognize faces and associate them with their profiles.

On a Sunday afternoon a week before the first performance, the hubbub of activity resembled a three-ring circus at the Galen Center, which Microsoft had booked for three solid weeks.

The troupe had converted the basketball court into a full-blown workshop for four designers wielding glue guns, irons and sewing machines to put finishing touches on 100 costumes. One of them, Marianne Theriault, estimated that the headpiece she was assembling, a sequined cap with branches and leaves that fanned out like fireworks, would take three hours to complete.

Backstage, two crew members tinkered with a 9-foot-tall puppet elephant that had just arrived that morning. It had been built by Michael Curry, the artist who created the puppets for "The Lion King" theater production.

And in the main arena, a small army of set builders were busy gluing carpet on the floor of a 50,000-pound rectangular steel structure the height of a six-story building. Others were busy transforming the giant space into an otherworldly set for an expected audience of 3,000 celebrities, media and hand chosen "influencers." Hung around the sides of the arena and on the ceiling stretched 400 linear feet of projection screens — so much that the company exhausted the supply in North America and had to fly additional screens in from Europe.

The 45-minute performance, to be preceded by an hour's worth of atmospherics, is cloaked in secrecy. Security guards were posted at doorways throughout the building with strict instructions to check for badges assigned to individual cast and crew members. Microsoft requested that visitors refrain from taking photos that showed game footage displayed on a monitor. Even the color scheme for the show was a verboten topic.

Laprise, citing the need to surprise his audience as well as airtight confidentiality agreements with Microsoft, would only speak broadly about the show's themes.

"It's a story about humanity, about a quest and about overcoming obstacles," he said. "In history, there have been discoveries that have made us leap forward as a civilization. But those technologies demanded that we master their language, the language of machines. This time, it's the machine that's adapting. The human is at the center, doing what comes naturally. Moving, jumping, talking. And it's up to the machine to interpret what that means."

A cast of 80 performers supported by a crew of more than 100 designers, set builders, engineers and seamstresses meant the performances soaked up as much resources as any of Cirque's permanent shows. The company drove from its Montreal studios 25 semi-trailer trucks packed with equipment, costumes and props — nearly all handmade for Microsoft's event.

Neither Cirque nor Microsoft would divulge the performances' overall cost. But Microsoft's Greenberg compared the efforts to promote its Natal project to the launch of its Xbox game console in 2001, and its successor in 2005, the Xbox 360, whose marketing budgets ran into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-cirque-20100613,0,261187,full.story

[maxy]

Some screenshots

"game"



mechanical elephant



apple



costumes



http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-e3-microsoft-cirque-pictures,0,1586070.photogallery

[tiesto]

Kelly Rowland

[youtube=560,345]py_PavqqOao[/youtube]

Heh, I started a mix out with this song a few years ago.

[maxy]

What has Borys done

More pimping

twitter mosaic...you can add your twitter...some tweets are hilarious

http://www.hashtagart.com/xboxe3

[iconoclast]

whoever wins, we all lose.

[maxy]

MS is really pushing this it seems. Wonder what will be tha E3 aftermath re: Netal vs Move?

Move?What is that?

They have no chance,every move footage has people that act like dead zombies...like they would rather cut their fingernails with chainsaw

Natal footage-people act like monkeys,having fun and that is all that matters

[MCD]

it's good to be a monkey.