Friday, October 29, 2010

Xbox Kinect - the advent is almost upon us!

With the release date of Xbox Kinect coming upon us "around" November 4th, Microsoft has a few options to just purchase the Kinect bundle or purchase a 250Gb Xbox 360 with Kinect.

Kinect Adventures is included... I'm sure I could work off a few pounds doing some of this stuff!

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Wii Sports Resort

After picking up Wii Sports Resort a few months ago, it has easily become the most played game on our Nintendo Wii. It comes with some remakes of popular games from the original Wii Sports release such as golf and bowling. What makes the new sports package so much better than the original is that it can use the Wii MotionPlus.

Wii MotionPlus is an add-on to the Wii remote that adds another gyroscope which helps determine more accurately the movement of the remote. Not only can it tell when you are moving up and down, left and right, it can now tell more accurately if you are twisting the controller and makes movement of your remote on the screen nearly 1:1.

Our favorite games by far have been Swordplay, Frisbee Golf, Golf, Table Tennis, Bowling and Archery.

One of the complaints we have with the technology is that especially during extremely active games like Swordplay and Table Tennis the remote gets disoriented frequently and needs to be recalibrated with the sensor by placing it upside down on the floor. Perhaps this will be fixed over time.

Sunday, August 30, 2009