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PSA: Kinect Nat Geo TV and Kinect Sesame Street TV season 2 available
How many more episodes of Kinect Sesame Street and Kinect Nat Geo are up on Xbox Live today? Eight! Ah, ah, ah. Season passes for each game/show/thing are available for 2400 Microsoft Points, with individual episodes selling for five bucks each.Kinect Sesame Street TV's second season adds SmartGlass tech to build playlists. Kinect Nat Geo season 2 adds ... probably some cool footage of a tiger, or something like that.
Sesame Street and Nat Geo Kinect 'Season Two' arrives in January
Kinect Sesame Street TV and Kinect Nat Geo TV, the interactive "2-way TV experiences" for Microsoft's Kinect, are both getting a new season of content starting on January 7. Both the Sesame Street and National Geographic packages will receive eight new downloadable episodes, available either as a bundle for 2400 MS Points ($30) or individually for 400 MS Points ($5) each.If you need a refresher on what exactly Kinect Sesame Street TV and Kinect Nat Geo TV are, check out the video above.
Former Relentless devs open Wish Studios, prototyping new Sony IP
A group of developers from the UK's Relentless Software (makers of the Buzz! franchise and the Blue Toad Murder Files) has splintered off to form a new company called Wish Studios. The developers are already hard at work on a new IP for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Relentless veterans Caspar Field, Paul Brooke, and Tom Bennett joined together to become Wish's respective CEO, CTO and CCO back in July, and are steadily working on the prototype for Sony. The team hasn't announced anything about what the prototype is just yet, except to say that it's "playing beautifully and has enormous potential." Field, Brooke, and Bennett have plenty of experience with downloadable titles and games for Sony's EyeToy peripheral, so perhaps that's a clue. Whenever they want to tell us what the project is, we'll be listening.
Kinect Nat Geo, Sesame Street TV let kids play with wild beasts today
Kinect Nat Geo TV and Kinect Sesame Street TV launch today, for 2400 MS Points ($30) each. They both include eight 30-minute interactive episodes, which can be purchased for 400 MS Points ($5) apiece.Kinect Sesame Street TV is rated EC for "Early Childhood," while Nat Geo goes all-out with a hedonistic rating of E10+, for "Everyone 10 and older." From the terrifying look on that cat's face – the one on the right with the blue eyes of death – we can see why.
Kinect Sesame Street and Nat Geo 'TV experiences' arrive in September
Microsoft has dated and priced its two "TV experiences" available later this year in the forms of Kinect Sesame Street TV and Kinect Nat Geo TV (...that's "National Geographic" for us who like to hollaback old school). Both interactive TV shows will be $29.99 (2400 MSP) for eight 30-minute episodes, available both at retail and through Xbox Live as a "season pass".Can't take the commitment of eight episodes? Each episode can also be purchased individually at $4.99 (400 MSP). The rugrat-silencing products will be available on September 18, giving you enough time after to catch up on your Fifty Shades of Grey reading.
Kinect Sesame Street TV, Kinect Nat Geo TV premiere 'autumn 2012'
Two of the kid-friendly Kinect games/apps we caught wind of last October have had their release window specified: Kinect Sesame Street TV will launch in "autumn 2012," according to a tweet from Argonon CEO James Burstall, with Kinect Nat Geo TV launching the very same day this fall, so sayeth C21 Media.As shown in the trailer above, Kinect Sesame Street TV and Kinect Nat Geo TV are exceedingly educational experiences centered around FMV games, rather than the more traditional graphics found in something like Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster. Still, children love Muppets and flailing wildly in living rooms, so combining the two seems pretty logical to us. Just, you know, move lamps out of the way first.
Kinect adds Sesame Street and National Geographic to Xbox Live, makes motion control wholesome fun
Kinect -- it's the Xbox 360 peripheral that just keeps on giving, now with more edutainment. Yes, that collision of worlds typically yields cringe- and boredom-inducing interactive experiences. Not so with this marriage of MS' motion-controlling sensor and the fine folks behind TV mainstays like Sesame Street, National Geographic and Disney. The newly inked content partnerships will see the creation of specifically tailored episodes of Kinect Nat Geo TV, in addition to a season's worth of Kinect Sesame Street TV for Xbox Live, letting your youngins play virtual connect the dots with Elmo. Plans are also underway for a virtual storybook effort, codenamed Project Columbia, aimed at indoctrinating children into the fundamentals of reading, and Rush, a videogame that'll lead adults and their tots alike through Pixar's virtual worlds. These various family-friendly titles and TV shows are set to rollout sometime next spring, so if you need to get your little ones' blood pumping (and slim down those love handles while you're at it), it looks like X's prepping to mark that spot. Official presser after the break.
Kinect's 'Family Vision': FMV games in every home
Microsoft issued a trailer featuring two of the new kid-friendly Kinect games announced yesterday, Kinect Sesame Street TV and Kinect Nat Geo TV. The footage of these two games above reveals the shocking truth: at least in parts, these are an attempt by Microsoft to bring back FMV games, indoctrinating our children into the moribund genre by having them point at moose and triangles. After the break, you can see a montage of upcoming Kinect games, interspersed with footage of actors pantomiming the movements involved with playing the games (which is also essentially pantomime), and demonstrating realistic expressions of enjoyment.
Pixar's 'Rush,' new Sesame Street game coming to Kinect (for kids)
Microsoft's latest batch of kid-friendly Kinect games includes projects developed in collaboration with Disney Pixar, Sesame Workshop, National Geographic and the Games for Learning Institute. Wow. Back in our day, we had to make do with The Castle of Dr. Brain. Disney Pixar's game, codenamed "Rush," will scan and deposit you and your diminutive kin into the wonderful worlds seen in five Pixar movies: The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Up, Toy Story 3 and Cars 2. It sounds like you can expect some minigames while you're in there, though Microsoft prefers to call them "exciting challenges." (One of them is pictured above.) Kinect Sesame Street TV purveys basic education in the best way possible: via adorable muppets, with Sesame Street footage filmed specifically for Xbox 360. Kinect will also host Kinect Nat Geo TV, which lets you interact with the natural world as an animal (in case you've grown tired of being a hedgehog all the time), and a game tentatively called "Project Columbia." It's proposed as a way to immerse young gamers in books, pairing storytelling with interactive music and illustrations. We'll see more of these projects before they start arriving in Spring 2012. Another game, Double Fine's Happy Action Theater, is due this holiday. You'll just have to see the trailer to understand its insane exuberance.
