Fruit Ninja Kinect Releasing For Xbox 360 This Wednesday

Great news for fruit slicing n’ dicing fans from all over the globe: Fruit Ninja is coming to the Xbox 360 with Kinect integration this Wednesday.

Fruit Ninja is a video game in which players slice fruits by swiping on their device’s touch screen. Developed by Halfbrick, the game is available for a variety of platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, Bada OS and Nokia’s Symbian. It is one of the most popular video games in the portable gaming market having seen more than 20 million total downloads as of March, 2011.
Announced at E3 2011, Fruit Ninja’s first appearance on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is all set for a release on Wednesday, August 10th. It is titled Fruit Ninja Kinect and will, as you can tell from the title, have deep integration with Microsoft’s motion sensing Kinect device. All the slicing action which was previously limited to input from a finger will now take input from the entire hand/arm of the players; this will not only make Fruit Ninja a lot more fun but also make it a whole lot more tiring than it ever was (which is not a bad thing, really!).

Sony and Hotz settle | hacking case

The company dropped its action against George Hotz, also known as Geohot, and secured an injunction that bans him from similar behaviour in future.

Sony claimed that George Hotz had violated its intellectual property

Mr Hotz, who is 21 years old, had been facing charges of copyright infringement and fraud.

In a statement, Sony welcomed the settlement and said that it would help to protect its intellectual property.

Around 100 other individuals, named and un-named, were also facing legal action. The fate of their cases is currently unclear.

Sony began pursuing Mr Hotz after he published information on his website that enabled users to install a reprogrammed version of the PlayStation's operating system.

The company claimed that by circumventing its security, PS3 owners would be able to play "homebrew" or copied games.

Joint statement

Proceedings in the California courts appeared to have reached a relatively advanced stage.

Lawyers for the Japanese firm had obtained permission to access details of users who downloaded Geohot's crack.

Following the settlement, the two sides issued a joint statement.

Mr Hotz said: "It was never my intention to cause users trouble or to make piracy easier. I am happy to have the litigation behind me."

Sony's general counsel in the USA, Riley Russell commented: "We appreciate Mr Hotz's willingness to address the legal issues involved in this case and... to quickly bring this matter to an early resolution."

Although no further details of the settlement have been revealed, Mr Hotz has not remained entirely tight-lipped regarding his feelings toward Sony.

In a blog posting on 11 April - the same day as the case was concluded - he wrote: "I am joining the Sony boycott. I will never purchase another Sony product.

"I encourage you to do the same. And if you bought something Sony recently, return it."

Sony stressed that the decision to settle had nothing to do with recent attacks on its website, attributed to the hacker collective Anonymous.

Silverlight coming to Xbox, bringing WP7 games along with it!!!

Silverlight started as just a humble Flash competitor and now, well, it's all grown up. Almost, anyway. It's a fundamental part of the Windows Phone 7 ecosphere and word on the street is that it's about to become a fundamental part of the Xbox 360 world as well -- or a part, at least. Microsoft's MIX 11 developer event kicks off next week and rumor has it that Microsoft will unload a new tier of Silverlight compatibility



enabling apps on the company's console and there's the potential for writing apps that could run both on phones and on the console. That sounds like some utopian dream-world of the future, where wavey-arm Kinect antics replace touchscreen swipes, but the bigger question is does the Xbox 360 really need another app store? Will this co-exist with the XNA-developed titles or supersede them? Is this why Xbox developer boxes just got a lot cheaper? Might we finally get Angry Birds on our HDTVs? Such delicious ponderings.


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