Whoa, whoa. Everybody calm down. Microsoft found the perfect way to market the Kinect to those of us who are a bit more fanatical than the casual gamer. Everything is going to be just fine.

A not very brief look back at the Microsoft conference from E3 2010. Spoiler Alert: It didn’t go very well.

The Ripten Live Blog of the E3 2010 Microsoft Keynote will begin at 10:30am PST, so head on over to our designated Microsoft Keynote page, also accessible from the yellow portion of the E3 navigation bar above, and get ready to receive up-to-the minute reports from the show floor.

Here’s my immediate decision on Natal, and the future of gaming. Playing video games started with stereotypes of “nerdy people” with “no life”, and evolved into a stereotype nerdy people with no life looking as dumb as possible …

Here’s a look at Microsoft’s Project Natal in comparison to other fictional “future” alternatives for things that work just fine the way they are now.

Though no specifics were mentioned due to various embargoes in place, Namco VP, Olivier Comte, revealed today that his company has Natal, Move, and 3D game related announcements scheduled for E3 2010 …

Major UK retailer “Game” has announced it’ll be taking pre-orders of Natal from the 13th of June, which is coincidentally the date of Microsoft’s Natal press conference at E3. Actually, that’s probably not a coincidence …

In an interview at CES, Capcom’s Vice President of strategic planning and business development (yes, all of that) Christian Svensson told G4 that the developer is working on a hardcore game for Microsoft’s Natal based on one of their old franchises.

Steve Van Tilburgh, Lionhead’s community manager, took to the twitter to tease the fact Fable fans will find themselves witnessing a few videos of the spectacle that will be Fable III next month at an event nobody knows anything about yet. Fable III, being the third Fable for those who lack the ability to read [...]