Kinect for Xbox 360 review
11/04/2010 05:56:00 PM
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And just like that, all three of the major game consoles now have some semblance of motion controls. Unlike the Nintendo Wii and PlayStation Move, however, Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360 opts to get rid of buttons altogether, relying on body gestures and voice commands. As the (estimated to be $500 million) ad campaign says, "you are the controller" -- for better and for worse. Read on for our full review!
Although Charlene Choi (Ah Sa) and Ronald Cheng already announced they split, but it is known it was not until in mid October that Ronald finally agreed to file divorce, which means Ah Sa was still Mrs. Cheng when she started dating new beau William Chan!
Taiwanese actor George Hu and Korean actress Park Shin-hye are already in their second week of filming for their idol drama collaboration "Hayate the Combat Butler", and the pair are gradually developing into good friends. What has been surprising is that the best way the pair has been communicating with each other is through a series of pranks. Plus, with the addition of George's bandmate Shao Xiang from Mandopop boy band Wu Hoo added to the cast, even Shao has been taking part in these pranks. With Shao not willing to be outdone, the newly added cast member of "Hayate" bribed George to pull another kind of prank on their Korean co-star, making Shin-hye cry out in response in her native Korean, "I'm going back home!"
On November 2nd, Hyoyeon confessed during a SNSD press conference that she still harbors a crush on the male idol that she mentioned in May.
Kanye West has responded to former president George W. Bush’s recent statement regarding his controversial post-Hurricane Katrina remarks. West’s surprising reply: Now that five years have gone by, he can sympathize more with the man he once said “doesn’t care about black people.”
According to reps for Ashley Greene and Demi Lovato, there was no "Greene effect" on the Disney star's recent breakdown.
Today at their mobile event in Palo Alto, CA, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed something interesting and rather humorous. It’s no secret that Facebook’s Android app has long been sort of a lame little cousin to their excellent iPhone app. But do you know why? Well it’s mostly Google’s fault. You see, they acquired the developer Facebook had hired to make the app.
Selina suffered from 3rd degree burns due to an accident from explosion during filming, since the incident it’s already been 13 days. Each day Selina is fighting with pain from the burns over 50% of her body, her parents also feel bad following with her pains. Ren Ba says, it’s a nightmare during her change of medicine, causing Selina to be so weak to be nearly speechless.
Eminem and Rihanna's summer hit 'Love the Way You Lie' has a sequel.
Lively meets Leo!
Today at its mobile event, Facebook executives Mark Zuckerberg and Erick Tseng gave some (vague) answers as to why there still isn’t an official iPad application.
Microsoft expects to sell 5 million Kinect units by the end of 2010, the company confirmed to CNET today.
Gwyneth Paltrow is stepping out of her Country Strong territory and into the profanity-filled realm of hip-hop.
Today, Scarlett Johansson’s rep confirmed with EW that the actress had been cast as the star of Under the Skin, in which Johansson will play a sexy space alien who kidnaps human hitchhikers and sends them back to her home world to be served as exotic hor d’oeuvres. It sounds like a direct-to-video plot more suited for Species star Natasha Henstridge, except the director is none other than Jonathan Glazer, the hipster auteur behind 2000′s stylish British gangster movie Sexy Beast, as well as 2004′s Birth, the creepy drama that had Nicole Kidman falling in love with a 10-year-old boy. Apparently, this dark sci-fi comedy has been on the English director’s to-do list for years, but now, with a genuine starlet attached, it actually looks like it’s going to happen sometime in 2011.
Please, please, just let Internet Explorer 6 die. It was an awful browser even in its day, 2001. The only reason it became popular was that Microsoft got away with illegally beating Netscape into the ground. Unfortunately, many corporate developers created crude, IE 6-specific Web applications that we’re stuck with to this very day. And, now thanks to Browsium’s UniBrows, we may be stuck with for many more years to come.
Samsung has generally been on the cutting edge when it comes to giving its smartphones the latest and greatest in terms of compatibility, with the Omnia being the first DivX certified handset in America this month two years ago. Now, it's looking to wrangle yet another first, with this one having the potential to be far more important. The outfit's hot-selling Galaxy S smartphone (GT-I9000) is now listed on the Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-Fi Direct certification docket, and while we knew that a handful of Wi-Fi modules and chipsets were about to get green-lit, this marks the first actual device to join that crowd. As we mentioned before, any modern-era WiFi device is capable of becoming Direct certified (via a firmware update given that there's no hardware change in the protocol), but it seems as if Sammy is being Johnny-on-the-spot. We'll keep an ear to the ground regarding an actual update that brings this functionality to life, but for now, let's all cross our fingers and hope those other phone makers get their handsets in line, too.
Taylor Swift’s Speak Now has come through with a huge debut on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week. Selling 1,047,000 copies in seven days, she’s the first artist to sell a million that fast since Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III in 2008. Last week’s chart-topper, Sugarland’s The Incredible Machine, drops to second place with 89,000. Kings of Leon’s Come Around Sundown drops a rung to No. 3 with 67,000 units moved. Lil Wayne’s I Am Not a Human Being jumps up one spot to No. 4, selling 43,000 copies. Eminem’s Recovery moves up three places to No. 5, selling 38,000 copies.
comScore has released its monthly smartphone mobile report today and like last month’s data, Android is continuing its assault on Apple and RIM’s share of users. The data, which measured smartphone usage from June until September of this year, showed that 58.7 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during period, up 15 percent from the preceding three month period ending in June. comScore says that the Android platform now reaches more than 1 in 5 U.S. smartphone subscribers.
Taiwan trio S.H.E's music label HiM International Music has issued a formal request Tuesday for Hunan Television to release results of their investigation on the filming accident which left band member Selina Jen with serious burns, reported Taiwan media.
Sources confirm that the CW has decided not to pick up any more episodes of sophomore drama Life Unexpected.
The Chinese millionaire who is engaged to Taiwanese actress, Barbie Hsu, is alleged of being a wife-beater who deserted his wife and kids
Actor Song Seung Hun will be remaking the 1990 American hit, “Ghost“, along with actress Matsushima Nanako.
Miley Cyrus won't get in the middle of her parents' divorce.
Taiwanese Pop Princess congratulates Barbie Hsu for her sudden engagement and applauds the actress for her bravery