The Verge

A Kinect for kids is outselling Xbox to become the hot console this holiday

The Nex Playground is on track to move 600,000 consoles, quadrupling last year’s sales. The Nex Playground is on track to move 600,000 consoles, quadrupling last year’s sales. is the Verge’s weekend ...
Westword

Mile High Animation Receives $10,000 Grant to Fund Free Animation Courses for All Ages

The Denver Creates fund has awarded a local animation studio a $10,000 grant to offer free animation courses to kids and adults. Since 2023, Mile High Animation has offered a summer camp and workshop ...
Deadline.com

Gungnir Launches Animation Studio To Build “The Cartoon Network Of The Digital Era”

EXCLUSIVE: L.A. publisher Gungnir is launching an animation studio that will feed an in-house YouTube channel that planned as “the Cartoon Network of the digital era.” Gungnir Animation Studio will ...
IGN

Motion controls are back, bay-bee.

The holiday season is a time where we typically expect to see a serious surge in video game and console sales, for fairly obvious reasons. Normally, that means lots of PlayStations, Switches, and ...
AOL

Ibermedia Next: 5 Takes On How the New-Tech Program Has Changed Animation and Animators in Latin America, Spain and Portugal

In 2023, Ibermedia, the biggest pan-regional co-development, co-production and distribution fund focusing on Latin America, Spain and Portugal, came to Ventana Sur to announce the 14 winners of the ...
The Escapist

Xbox Kinect turns 15 and bam, no one cares what the bottom of an avatar’s shoe looks like

The Xbox Kinect has turned 15, and we’re all grateful the industry got over its obsession with whatever Nintendo was up to at the time. Announced in 2009 as Project Natal, with hindsight being 20:20, ...
The Verge

How a bunch of hackers freed the Kinect from the Xbox

In 2010, when Microsoft unveiled the Kinect, it pitched the camera as a revolutionary new gaming device. Swing an imaginary lightsaber and that would be translated onscreen. Throw a football and it ...
Inverse

15 Years Ago, The Kinect Turned Gaming Into A Full-Body Activity

Of all major game publishers, Nintendo is the one most associated with bizarre controls. From the Virtual Boy to the Wiimote, Nintendo's history is studded with unorthodox new ways to play games — ...
CNET

'Twisted Wonderland: The Animation': Where and When to Stream the New Anime Series

Kourtnee covers TV streaming services and home entertainment. She previously worked as an entertainment reporter at Showbiz Cheat Sheet, where she wrote about film, television, music, celebrities and ...
Observer

Disney’s Once-Unshakable Animation Empire Is Wobbling

From weak theatrical intent to cultural controversy, Disney animation faces major challenges even as it experiments with fresh formats and new IP. Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register ...
Columbus Dispatch

'There's a community here that wants to make movies:' Columbus incentive funds local films

Columbus, Ohio is boosting its film industry with a new incentive program, the Columbus Motion Picture Incentive (CMPI). The CMPI, now in its second year, offers funding to local filmmakers who ...
Columbus Dispatch

Columbus is building a diverse animation industry, but there is still work to be done

Columbus is trying to grow its animation industry and retain local talent from schools like CCAD. Financial incentives like the Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit and the Columbus Motion Picture Incentive ...