Kinect library for Xbox 360 revealed by USA Today

06/14/2010 Kinect library for Xbox 360 revealed by USA Today

Update: Oops! It looks like USA Today jumped the gun on the announcement and has since pulled the pieceits site. Stay tuned for the official Microsoft 'opening later.

USA Today has spilled the proverbial beans on Microsoft's Natal project -- not only has the paper confirmed the Kinect product name, but they've posted a few of the games in the pipeline for the system. Here we go:

• Kinectimals features over 20 different virtual pets, including lions, tigers, and cheetahs, to play with or raise.
• Joyride has returned to life as a controller-free racing game, apparently.
• Kinect Sportswill offer sports: "boxing, bowling, beach volleyball, athletics, football and table tennis." For each of them, you will make proposals to play games.
• Kinect Adventures has a river raft and obstacle course to navigate -- this is likely the demo we saw last week.
• MTV Games will release a Dance CentralWhere you can cut a virtual rug.
• And there will be more games announced later featuring both Disney characters and Star Wars characters, in conjunction with Disney and LucasArts, respectively.

Marc Whitten even namedrops Nintendo in USA Today's piece, but he says that without a controller, Kinect will be "fundamentally different." We'll keep our eyes open for these games all this week, so stay tuned.

Thanks, Jake!

Kinect library for Xbox 360 revealed by USA Todayoriginally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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