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• Toshiba Australia announces sleek consumer line-up (+ gallery)

  By Hafizah Osman | 24 January, 2012 12:25

  Toshiba Australia announces sleek consumer line-up

• Xbox 360 in 2012: what about the games?

  By Patrick Miller | 13 January, 2012 01:42

  Microsoft is reaping the rewards of the Xbox 360 and Kinect's success over the past year, and they're showing it off in a big way at CES 2012. However, very little of the Xbox buzz coming from Microsoft has to do with games. 2012 might very well be the Year of the Xbox 360, but not for many of the gamers that brought it so far.

• IN PICTURES: CES 2012 Gadget Preview

  By Melanie Pinola | 29 November, 2011 10:00

  2012 Consumer Electronics Show: From high-definition video calling via your HDTV to practically indestructible SD cards for your camera, here's a look at 20 gadgets and services that will be making a splash at the Las Vegas Convention Center in January. All prices mentioned are in $US.

• Microsoft Kinect for Windows: It's coming

  By Jason Kennedy | 23 November, 2011 12:20

  A few weeks ago, Microsoft delivered the news that Kinect for Windows was a reality, and released the Kinect for Windows SDK. Microsoft Kinect is making waves in the development of tools to help the disabled, assist injured or handicapped with rehabilitation, and lend a hand in the operating room to make doctor's jobs easier (it's the Kinect Effect; you can see it on the Xbox site).

• UltimatePointer Goes After Nintendo's Wii Remote

  By Matt Peckham | 29 September, 2011 00:01

  Hey Nintendo, you've been served, and I don't mean in terms of swinging a virtual racket with your Wii Remote (though the latter's surely related). Noticed by Gamasutra, it seems a company called UltimatePointer has the famous Japanese game maker in its crosshairs over patent claims relating to the Wii's wireless master controller.

• Zynga reportedly buys Astro Ape

  By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 18 August, 2011 03:44

  Zynga has acquired mobile games start-up Astro Ape, according to Business Insider, which notes that Astro Ape employees are changing their place of employment on LinkedIn.

• Zynga sued for alleged patent infringement

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 18 August, 2011 06:47

  Zynga has been sued in a federal district court in Delaware for allegedly infringing on two patents obtained in the 1990's by Agincourt Gaming.

• Game over: THQ shutters THQ Studio Australia and Blue Tongue Entertainment

  By Patrick Budmar | 11 August, 2011 11:54

  American video game publisher, THQ, will close two of its Australian studios, Brisbane-based THQ Studio Australia and Melbourne-based Blue Tongue Entertainment.

• NEWS FEATURE: Kinect - more than just a toy

  By Patrick Budmar | 18 July, 2011 15:23

  When the Kinect for Xbox 360 was released in late 2010, it created a buzz in the video gaming industry that had not been seen in many years. A webcam-style add-on peripheral for Microsoft’s video game console, the Kinect eliminated the need for a traditional control pad and instead allows the user to interact with video games through body gestures and voice commands. While Kinect was a success, selling an excess of 10 million units as of March, it was still just a video game accessory that was locked to the Xbox 360 platform and its implementation did not go further than video games.

• Hacker turns Kinect for Xbox 360 into Kinect for Linux PCs

  By Ian Paul | 13 November, 2010 02:06

  Well, that was fast. Do-it-yourself electronics kit maker and hobby retailer Adafruit recently announced that a hacker had won the company's Open Kinect Bounty. Spain-based hacker Hector Martin Cantero, who is known online as "marcan," released a proof-of-concept video Wednesday night showing the Kinect interfacing with his Linux-based laptop.

• US to ban violent video games?

  By JR Raphael | 03 November, 2010 09:44

  Thank God Steve Jobs isn't on the Supreme Court.

• New Xbox 360 in development for two years

  By Matt Peckham | 14 July, 2010 02:20

  It's smaller, shinier, and back in black: Microsoft's new Xbox 360 took many by surprise at last month's E3.