As part of Microsoft's strategy for both the Kinect and prolonging the Xbox 360's life, Microsoft revealed the next step of the plan is for mandatory support for the Kinect in the future for all first-party Xbox 360 games.
Microsoft admitted it would be much easier for them to do it than making another demand for Xbox 360 games to third-party studios. They already have the demands of every Xbox 360 must have a gamerscore, Xbox Live, and HD abilities.
As of now, Microsoft appears to be leaning on voice commands as the main thing to use for Kinect rather than its other features. They feel this enhances their games a lot more than the other aspects of Kinect and would be more favorable and marketable to Xbox 360 users and potential new users.
EA is also considering pushing Kinect as a huge feature for their multi-platform games and could be moving away from heavy PS3 support to go back to heavy Xbox 360 support like in the begining of the generation.
http://kotaku.com/5810998/eventually...-employ-kinect
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Quick News Round-Up:
1) Epic Games the latest video game company to suffer a hacking attack after Code Masters was attacked a few days ago and Sony over the past few months. The attack occurred on Epic Games forums with several e-mail addresses and passwords stolen including the master/admin one for the forum.
2) In response to a 2nd hacking attempt on Nintendo's severs, Nintendo of Europe has closed down its Club Nintendo services until it resolves the "phishing" attempt done to them.
3) Another attack to PSN and Sony is expected to be occurring in the near future with the main group boasting at the moment they have access to the PSN database and will be willing to prove Sony wrong about the new PSN being secured. As of now, between 17-19 Sony related websites and services have been attacked since the initial one to PSN.