{"id":14846,"date":"2011-10-19T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"microsoft-promises-an-explosion-of-kinect-content-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/14846-microsoft-promises-an-explosion-of-kinect-content-this-christmas","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft promises an explosion of Kinect content this Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does your Kinect feel tired and listless?<\/p>\n<p>Is it collecting dust in some forgotten corner of your TV stand?<\/p>\n<p>Is its pillow damp in the mornings, its eyes swollen and ruddy with the fading vestiges of some secret grief?<\/p>\n<p>Mine too.<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s a glimmer of hope on the horizon, though &#8211; according to Microsoft, big things are coming its way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like any other thing that is new, we came out with a set of applications to show off the platform, to bring others in,&#8221; Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco on 18 October 2011. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2011-10-19-ballmer-second-generation-of-kinect-content-is-here\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"GamesIndustry.biz\">GI.biz<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our second generation is now happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Citing the recent launch of the Windows Kinect toolkit, he added, &ldquo;That kind of opens up a whole new sphere of innovation with Kinect and the PC. This holiday I think you&#8217;ll see an explosion of things around the Xbox and Kinect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, though. I just want a nice game for it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/steve_ballmer_funny_190558238.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"339\" height=\"205\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Steve Ballmer means business<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19140-Microsoft-promises-Kinect-content-explosion-this-Christmas?\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Microsoft promises an explosion of Kinect content this Christmas\">Microsoft promises an explosion of Kinect content this Christmas<\/a> <\/strong>&lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Again)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}