At the BMO Digital Entertainment Investor Conference in New York,
Microsoft's Dennis Durkin had a few interesting things to say about
consumer data collection that involves Kinect's recognition
capabilities.

According to teardown analysts, it looks like Microsoft is making a healthy profit on each Kinect unit it sells

While hacker Hector Martin isn't the first to do this, he's the first to share the custom code with the internet.

A user poll shows the device is in the number two most-wanted slot for the holiday season, behind Apple’s iPad.

In an interview with the BBC, Kinect’s creative director Kudo Tsunoda said the game will be arriving by next holiday.

"I'd say right now Microsoft's Kinect is looking to be the winner of the two for us," said GameStop VP of marketing McKenzie.

It seems that with any new piece of technology, users will find creative
ways to injure themselves or others. Kinect is no exception.

Hopefully you've tried all three by now. So... who do you think did it best?

We’d like to see more games use the Kinect technology in
creative ways. Here are a few imaginary future titles that would get us
moving.

What would your room look like if
you could see all the infrared the Kinect device is shooting out? One
intrepid YouTube user decided to find out with the aid of the night
vision goggles from his copy of Modern Warfare 2.

The Kinect is out, and players have nothing to hold onto while
playing games, yet someone has still managed to break their TV.

Let Kinect
creative director Kudo Tsunoda walk you through all the ins and outs of
how Kinect’s remote-free menus work.

Though no official sales numbers have been released, retailers have reported a high demand for the new device.

If you're some sort of dancing maniac and are stuck craving more than the
included 32 songs, we've got good news - there is day one DLC for Dance
Central.

Features discussion of Supreme Court video game case, plus Kinect and GoldenEye 007 reviews

Microsoft's latest piece of hardware had us running and jumping in front
of our TVs so we could tell you
which games to pick up and which ones to absolutely stay away from.

All of the games available at Kinect's launch require a lot of
moving around, but it might not be that way later on

We put Microsoft's latest hardware to the test. Does it measure up to the hype?

We polled Game Informer readers for questions about Kinect, and
fired them off at Microsoft’s creative director Kudo Tsunoda.

A new "activity level" info box will let you know just how vigorous of a gaming session you can expect.

Bryan and I just played a bunch of Kinect, and we were able to watch and share the video online mere minutes later.

Microsoft was already planning a pretty huge launch for their new
Kinect device, originally projecting three million in sales by
Christmas. Apparently the growing pre-launch hype has not been lost on
them, though, as they've now raised those projections.

Will Microsoft’s motion-sensing gamble pay off?

R' Us store in Times
Square will receive $150 in extras for no additional charge.

The rock stars at Harmonix came by the office to show us how to get our groove on in Dance Central.

In addition to the previously announced Kinect bundle that will debut with the product’s retail release this week, another Xbox bargain is on the way.

Here's your chance to sound off about the latest update. What do you like? What do you hate?