"Hybrid" games for pad exist too
The overwhelming message from Microsoft's multi-million pound advertising campaign for Kinect is "you are the controller", but the Xbox 360 pad is also a controller. Couldn't the two be combined? Yes, yes they could.
Is it, isn't it, is it, isn't it? Nobody's quite sure about whether Milo and Kate is ever going to materialise or not. Lionhead boss and Milo's dad Peter Molyneux said in August that he was working on the game in the hope it would be available to buy one day, but now father of Kinect Alex Kipman was gone the other way, saying "Milo was never announced as a game."
Are you getting excited?
If you're in North America, just a few short hours stand between you and owning your very own Kinect for Xbox 360.
"People like holding things"
You may already be aware that PlayStation Move started on PS2, but this nifty video from Dr Richard Marks and the team at Sony is a neat look back at the legacy of the original EyeToy. It also contains a few thinly-veiled digs at Microsoft's Kinect sensor as Dr Marks talks up the importance of buttons, precision and the fact people just naturally like holding things in their hands.
Tonight I played Kinect Adventures and Call of Duty: Black Ops. One was fantastically innovative, the other one was rubbish. Place bets now!
Good news, everyone
LostWinds and its sequel, LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias, have been two of WiiWare's most notable hits, so it's good to hear that David Braben's Frontier team is preparing to release more titles in the series
Take on the Lion for free
We were pretty pleased with John Daly's ProStroke Golf's fine motion controls, though less so with its presentation, and now anyone who's been putting off getting to grips with the Lion can get a slice of the game with a free demo, available across Europe today.
Today I bought 11 Game Gear games for £1.92. I think this might be the best moment of my week, and I found 5p yesterday.
A bumper crop of Move content this week, with trailers, videos, a patch for PAIN and even a full game to download.
Shake to ooch
If you're a fan of PAIN – the game, that is – you can now grab a free update to let you use the Move controller in game.
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