Kinect buyer’s guide

Thinking of buying a Kinect to keep the kids quiet this Christmas? You’ve picked a good time to make a purchase – you should be able to find one for under £80 new, and significantly less second hand, with games starting at literally pocket money prices. You should feel sorry for our downstairs neighbour – …

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Prototype does alright

Prototype 2 is the UK’s new number one this week, but it’s not all good news for Activision – it hasn’t sold as well as the last game did during launch week. It has however shifted more copies than the last two number ones – The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and Kinect Star Wars. …

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Kinect Star Wars

Has Star Wars been lampooned enough in recent times? If your answer is ‘yes’ then perhaps it would be best to stay away from Kinect Star Wars altogether. If the sight of a small girl telling off her pet Rancor for eating her grandpa doesn’t tip you over the edge for detesting what the Star …

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Kinect Star Wars on top of the podium

Mediocre reviews haven’t harmed sales of Kinect Star Wars one bit – it’s the UK’s new number one, making it the first Kinect game to go straight to the top of the chart. It’s also the first Star Wars game to enter at #1 since 2008’s Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. You have to admit …

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Run DMC HD

We’re running this week’s new release round-up a little earlier than usual because this week’s biggest games are already out. We can understand why Microsoft wanted to give Kinect Star Wars a simultaneous US and European release seeing as it’s the first big Kinect game since… well, in a very long time. Quite why Capcom …

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