Star Wars Xbox 360 Kinect Bundle Announced, Droid Awesomness

Star Wars fanboys rejoice! Your dreams of owning a Star Wars themed Xbox 360 are now a reality thanks to Microsoft releasing a new Xbox 360 with Kinect bundle in a cool Star Wars Droid theme staring a Storm Trooper-like white and black Kinect sensor bar, a shiny golden C-3PO themed controller and last but certainly not least, the 320GB Xbox 360 itself in the R2-D2 themed color scheme complete with cute R2-D2 sound effects. Microsoft has officially announced this Star Wars Kinect bundle at Comic Con today, where else? The bundle will be available in November, and you'll be able to pre-order yours starting today at retailers for a cool $449. Hit up the source link for more photos plus a video.

Microsoft Debuts Explorer Touch Mouse

Microsoft has just announced the Explorer Touch Mouse, the newest addition to Microsoft's growing wireless touch-enabled mice line. The Explorer Touch Mouse features a touch strip with both vertical and horizontal navigation as well as touch scrolling. Other features like 5 customizable buttons, BlueTrack blue laser sensor for tracking on virtually any surface and an impressive 18-month battery life are all packed into the sleekest, ambidextrous body a mouse has ever seen. The good news is that the Explorer Touch Mouse is both PC and Mac compatible - even OS X Lion. The bad news is that it isn't Bluetooth enabled, rather RF dongle enabled. It will be available in September for $49.95 in black and blue.

Kinect SDK Beta Released

Today June 16th 2011, Microsoft released the beta version for there long awaited Kinect Software Development Kit. This happens to not be the first development kit released for the Kinect, but is the official one released by Microsoft. It can be downloaded now for Windows 7 only for 32-bit or 64 bit.

Microsoft Keynote Round Up, More More Kinect

Earlier this morning there was a game list leaked from E3. Microsoft keynote followed exactly what games that where on the leaked list. Many things are happening and many new things are coming. Here is just some of the information covered at the Microsoft Keynote. Below is information from joystiq.

Halo 4 was annocuned.

Kinect Sports is coming back for Season 2.

Dance Central 2 was announced with new catalog of tunes.

Kinect Fun Labs which is a big collection of mini games to have fun with.

Kinect Disneyland Adeventures will allow you to explore Disney parks from your living room and have plenty of mini-games.

Forza 4 will arive October 11 with kinect head-tracking.

Mincraft coming to Xbox 360 and Kinect this winter.

Fable: The Journey will feature Kinect-based journey.

Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary.

UFC fights that you will be able to watch from your Xbox.

Xbox Live launching streaming televison service in the fall.

Xbox getting Kinect powered dashboard update.

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Kinect Support.

Four EA Sports Games in 2011 to Feature Kinect.

Mass Effect 3 gets Kinect support with voice recognition.

Microsoft Wireless Encrypted Keyboard

Do you really need a 128-bit wireless encryption keyboard and mouse? Only if you're paranoid. Microsoft has just announced their Wireless Desktop 2000 encrypted keyboard and mouse. It Uses AES 128-bit encryption to make sure that no one is snooping on your keys. The keyboard and mouse actually look really nice compared to their others but then again it is a Microsoft keyboard. It is fully compatible with Windows 7 and Mac OSX. You can't beat getting a wirelessly-encrypted keyboard and mouse for only $40 and its available now.

Microsoft Zune Is Dead

Too bad, the Zune product line is now officially dead says Microsoft. Microsoft will no longer produce any Zune players but might actually keep investing in the Zune software and put it to good use elsewhere. So if you're not a fan of the iPod, you might as well get yourself a Zune until they're all sold out. 

HTC Sense Coming to Windows Phone 7

 

Microsoft has always wanted a unified look to Windows Phone 7 ever since it was announced, but HTC has just said today that they will bring HTC Sense to all of their upcoming Windows Phone 7 devices. Drew Bamford from HTC told Forbes that Sense UI would still appear in HTC's Windows Phone 7 devices, and he believes that it will live on in Android 3.0  as well. He also said that "We won't be able to replace as much of the core Windows Phone experience, but we will augment it," because "Microsoft has taken firmer control of the core experience."

Windows Phone 7 is due to be launch around November with devices from Dell, Asus, LG, HTC, and Samsung.

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Microsoft Confirms Windows Phone 7 OEM's

 

Microsoft's Senior Product Manager, Greg Sullivan, confirmed who the Windows Phone 7 launch OEM's would be in an interview with Pocket-lint. Dell, Asus, LG, HTC, and Samsung are all going to have Windows Phone 7 on some sort of device at around the time of the launch date but we do not know what these devices will be yet. Talking of the launch date, Microsoft is saying "Holdiays 2010," so we should see some devices in time for Christmas. But, knowing Microsoft, they will release most of the devices in January and miss the Holiday season.

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