My 3-year-old daugh­ter has a video game con­sole made by Leap Frog. It helps her learn let­ters and stuff like that but it is very clunky and the graph­ics look worse than Joust. She has really out­grown it and is very curi­ous about my XBOX and PS3. She always asks to play games with me but COD and Splat­ter­house aren’t exactly age appro­pri­ate....

  As a gamer I take much pride in see­ing the medium evolve beyond just play­ing games. The gam­ing demo­graphic does more than just play games. They are wrestling  fans,sports fans and MMA fans who love to con­sume as much of their favorite past times as they do play­ing the newest games. Microsoft saw this evolv­ing trend and decided to make the...

Over the course of the day I was bom­barded with tweets and mes­sages about Star Wars Kinect. After finally see­ing it for myself I think it has the poten­tial to be fun but I am con­cerned with the accu­racy of motion cap­ture and I felt a bit under­whelmed by the graph­ics. I know that the allure of lightsaber com­bat and force pow­ers has some of...

  Our bud­dies over at Gamer Fit Nation got some train­ing with Kru Mark Dela­grotte  at Sity­o­d­tong and dis­cussed the upcom­ing UFC Trainer and how it will change home fit­ness with the Kinect. Black Bible was kind enough to share his expe­ri­ence with MTR as he knows that our lis­ten­ers love MMA and gam­ing. I appre­ci­ate GFN shar­ing...

When the Kinect first burst on the scene we all knew that the phys­i­cal fit­ness games were going to see some major changes with regard to total use of the body. Dance Cen­tral and EA Sports active were only scratch­ing the sur­face of the Kinect’s poten­tial as an exer­cise tool. Zumba and a ton of oth­ers have also come along and been well...