Kinect, the new Xbox 360, and ESPN: highlights from Microsoft at E3 2010

My, what big showing you have there, Microsoft. We're still recovering from today and yesterday's big Xbox 360 Kinect unveiling party, but let's take a brief trip down short-term memory lane. First, Project Natal became Kinect, unveiled a handful of interesting / guaranteed-to-embarrass uses, and solidified its November release date. Then ESPN3 made an impressive debut on Xbox Live. Finally, the piece de resistance, a slimmed down Xbox 360 250GB that came (almost) out of nowhere and hits retail as soon as physically possible. Everywhere Microsoft was this past 24 hours, so were we:

Liveblog

• Live from Microsoft's E3 2010 keynote!

The new, slim Xbox 360

• Xbox 360 250GB first unboxing!

• Xbox 360 naming guide: the new Xbox 360 vs. the Xbox 360 Original

• New Xbox 360 gets official at $299, shipping today, looks angular and ominous (video hands-on!)

• New Xbox 360 250GB now available for preorder at GameStop, Newegg and Amazon

• Xbox 360 Arcade to eventually be replaced by $199 new Xbox 360; data transfer cable will be $20

Kinect

• The new Xbox 360 Kinect port, up close

• Kinect priced at GameStop: $149, $399 for Elite bundle

• Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 launches on November 4

• Microsoft Kinect to go on sale in November, somewhere

• Microsoft Kinect gets official, Video Chat announced

• Video Kinect: video chat and stream sharing over Xbox Live and Live Messenger

• Kinect in the flesh!

• Microsoft demos new Kinect dashboard and voice contro

Other news of import

• Zune music heads to Xbox 360

• ESPN3 comes exclusively to Xbox 360

• Netflix for Xbox 360 adds search in November

Galleries

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