Share your love in video form
If you're a European Club Nintendo member and you want to share your love of Nintendo games with the world, you might want to grab your video camera and create a piece for Tell Your Nintendo Story, a new competition from Nintendo itself.
The Mushroom Kingdom was very different back then
We've only just recovered from the bombshell that Super Mario Bros. nearly had a shoot 'em up stage, but prepare for more shocks as original design documents show the path the plumber nearly took.
Online avatar editor and more
Kinect isn't just going to change the way you play your games, it's going to alter the way you interact with the Xbox 360 Dashboard too. With the Dashboard update due to roll out in a few weeks, Microsoft has already made a big change to its online Xbox Live portal, giving it a new lick of paint just ahead of Kinect's launch.
Hello, butthead!
Telltale's Back to the Future game has the likenesses of Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, but only the latter was able to lend his voice to the game too. The second behind-the-scenes documentary from Telltale explains how the company came to recast the role of Marty McFly.
Move to the beat
Melodic masterminds can try their arm at Buzz! The Ultimate Music Quiz, released across Europe this past Wednesday, with UK shops starting to sell it this weekend.
Or Adrenalin Misfits, if you prefer
Half of Konami's double-pronged Kinect line-up, CROSSBOARD 7 (known as Adrenalin Misfits in the States) just got a brand new trailer to counteract the wave of Sonic Free Riders trailers we've seen in the past few days.
Still has sensor in stock
There have been reports that European wings of online retail giant Amazon have started to sell out of Kinect before the sensor even launches. Indeed, Amazon.de is advising customers to sign-in so they can receive emails when the item is in stock.
More levels available for download
It's the perennial Christmas quandary: what do you get for the person who has everything? That's the problem facing Microsoft and Kinect Adventures – if the game is included with every Kinect sold, what do you give to gamers who like it? The answer is the Kinect Adventures Live Token, of course.
Part one of the making of Episode I
Telltale's Back to the Future game captured the imagination as soon as it was announced, and now we have the first behind the scenes footage to reveal concept art, character models and a little bit about the game's plot.
Getting controller in under budget proved tricky
It's not surprising to hear that PlayStation Move went through countless revisions before Sony settled on the design we all hold in our hands today: budget constraints, technical demands and more all contributed to Move's final form. Designer Yoshio Miyazaki, one of Sony's chief designers on the PlayStation Move project, spoke to Famitsu about how difficult it was to get the controller into a working and distributable state.I didn't think that using sensors like this would prove to be so difficult. It's a simple matter to get a reading from a sensor and send it to the PS3 host, but the sensor readings can change depending on temperature and other environmental conditions. The question became how to keep the sensor readings as consistent as possible in a wide variety of environments, and that was very tricky.The overriding challenge was for Miyazaki and team to keep the cost to consumers down below ¥10,000 (£78, US$122) for the PlayStation Eye, Move Controller and software. At first this seemed an impossible task, says Miyazaki, but by reducing the number of parts in the controller and switching materials the team brought the controller in well below the ¥10,000 guideline.
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