Nic Healey is a Senior Editor with CNET, based in the Australia office. His passions include bourbon, video games and boring strangers with photos of his cat. Microsoft has made yet another policy ...

For all the buzz about the new Kinect that will ship with the Xbox One, there are remarkably few facts to go around. Sources trumpet its infrared-enabled ability to detect motion in a dark room, for ...

This weekend, Microsoft revealed that two new updates are arriving to the Xbox One Kinect. The sensor, that is primarily used to map movement across a range of titles available for the Xbox One, will ...

Speculation had been mounting for months that a move like this was in the cards at Microsoft, but now it's actually happening: head of Xbox Phil Spencer confirmed today that starting on June 9 (in all ...

Xbox One is vying to be the center of your “smart” living room scene. You can impress your friends and family by launching the game system and your TV with a simple command, “Xbox, on” and voila! You ...

Microsoft’s Kinect may not have found success as a gaming peripheral, but recognizing that a depth sensor is too cool to leave for dead, development continued even after Xbox gaming peripherals were ...

This holiday season, the video game industry hype machine is focused on building excitement for new PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Ten years ago, a similar chorus of hype reached a crescendo with the ...

Noticed xbox kinect sensor doing something different today. I had to apply update and noticed after I did the update, the kinect sensor does not point down when I power the xbox off. Not too big a ...

Did Microsoft forget something at today’s E3 2010 press show? How about Kinect’s (the motion-sensing add-on for Microsoft’s Xbox 360) standalone and bundle pricing? Leave it to games retailer GameStop ...