id Software's Rage has picked up five nominations for the Game Critics Awards Best Of E3 2010, followed by Dance Central, Epic Mickey and Portal 2 with four apiece.
Retailer Play.com has listed detailed technical specifications of Microsoft's upcoming motion sensing camera Kinect, as provided by “manufacturers”.
Play.com suggests the device will be able to track up to six people at a time and "map players to Live Avatars". However, it also says Kinect can only track two "active players" at any one time, monitoring 20 joints per player.
Questions about Kinect's ability to track players while seated have also been raised in recent weeks but remain unanswered.
Lionhead boss and creative director of Microsoft Game Studios Europe, Peter Molyneux, has moved to clear up the confusion over the status of Kinect project Milo And Kate.
Hulu has confirmed rumours that it will offer a new $9.99 per month TV subscription service, Hulu Plus, on multiple devices in the US.
It will be made available on iPhone and iPad and is planned to launch on PS3 in July, but Xbox 360 owners will have to wait until “early 2011” to access the service.
The UK government’s decision to scrap plans to introduce tax breaks for domestic game development studios has led a number of major publishers to think twice about continuing to invest in the market.
