Following last year’s genuinely excellent Batman: Arkham Shadow, Meta is moving from DC to Marvel for this year’s big superhero VR game effort with Deadpool VR, the just-announced first-person action ...

Twisted Pixel, the Austin, Texas-based studio behind Splosion Man, Comic Jumper and The Gunstringer, is being spun off by owner Microsoft and will become an independent studio once again, according to ...

Now that production of the Kinect has ceased, there will be no more neophytes among those who had this “85% magic, 15% frustrating” experience. While it’s common to, quite reasonably, accuse the ...

Microsoft garnished a big E3 presentation with the news that it had formed a new studio in Santa Monica called The Initiative, and perhaps more notably, bought four game developers. Ninja Theory ...

Kinect is dead. The writing has been on the wall for years, at least since Microsoft de-bundled the motion-tracking system from the Xbox One in 2014, knocking $100 off the price tag and making the ...

Kinect burst into the video gaming discussion around the same time I started my career writing about it. It’s over, and that is now for the record. It had been clear since 2014 that Microsoft was ...

Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars is ...

Parents need to know that The Gunstringer is a third-person shooter and platforming game with modest but frequent violence. It requires an Xbox 360 Kinect sensor to play. Players use their hands to ...

"Does the Kinect stuff work well?" That's the question that matters most for Kinect Sports Rivals. The sports, the leaderboards, -- it's all for nothing if the main motions of swinging a racket or ...

Any video game character can fire a gun; it takes something more to do it with grace and style. To highlight these heroes, we compiled a list of the most badass video game gunslingers, each armed with ...