Get your body mapped for better fashion fits at retailers

Bodymetrics is announcing a new service today that maps your body exactly so that you can have much better-fitting clothes when you go shopping at physical retail stores.

26,000 developers sign up for PC motion-controlling gadget Leap

Leap Motion released statistics today demonstrating high interest in its motion-controlling PC peripheral.

Kinect-based medical startup Jintronix wins International Startup Festival’s top prize

Founder of new startup gives physical therapy a technological boost after watching his father struggle with recovering from a stroke.

How game designers are influencing the world of gamification

As the gamification industry continues to grow, it looks to game designers for help and advice.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Xbox 720, 3DS XL, and surviving the zombie apocalypse

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

E3 2012: Nike+ Kinect Training brings in-depth fitness measuring to Xbox 360

Nike’s trainers and coaches have helped Microsoft Game Studios develop a Kinect fitness game that will tap into the athletic-equipment company’s huge stable of workout products.

Regular fitness nuts may already be familiar with Nike+, a smartphone app that tracks …

Microsoft says it has sold 67M Xbox 360s, 19M Kinects, and generated $56B in game revenues

Microsoft said today that it has generated more than $56 billion at retail from its game business, and it has sold 67 million Xbox 360 consoles since 2005. It has also sold more than 19 million Kinect motion sensors since …

Add your face to the wizarding crowd in Harry Potter for Kinect

Warner Bros. Interactive announces Harry Potter for the Kinect, which releases this fall. Time to bust out that robe and hat combo from the closet once more.

Not magic, motion control: The Leap controls your computer with a flick of a finger

Anyone who has wanted to point their finger at their computer to make something happen will appreciate the Leap, a new motion control peripheral from startup Leap Motion. The small aluminum device uses finger waves and hand gestures to interact …

GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

The DeanBeat: Can Microsoft’s Kinect gain cred from hardcore gamers?

Microsoft’s Kinect has always held out tantalizing promises. As a user interface, it brings computing devices to the edge of greatness but falls just a little short of our dreams of the Star Trek holodeck or the cool transparent, gesture-controlled …

Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda on broadening Kinect games to hardcore fans (interview)

Kudo Tsunoda says that more hardcore gaming experiences are coming to Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensing system this year.

Microsoft Kinect’s NUads is what the TV industry needs to survive the future

What if your ads watched you while you were watching them? Microsoft is set to debut its new motion-sensitive advertising project NUads next month, which the company says will revamp the TV ad industry by doing just that.

The company’s …

Game News Roundup: Sony loses billions and Microsoft ponders Kinect-controlled internet browsing

Sony's PlayStation division loses $2.8 billion over the full year, and Microsoft is working on Kinect-controlled internet browsing for the Xbox 360.

Microsoft confirms $99 Xbox 360 + Kinect subscription deal

The rumors are true. Microsoft confirmed today that it will offer a $99 Xbox 360 console and Kinect bundle (with a $15 monthly subscription fee) in its retail stores.

The deal will be available via the above online coupon, which …

Game over, Sony? Microsoft said to be working on $99 Xbox 360 + Kinect bundle with subscription

In a move that will surely stir up plenty of fanboy fervor, Microsoft is reportedly gearing up to announce a $99 Xbox 360 + Kinect package, which will be subsidized by a $15 monthly fee, reports The Verge.

Sources tell …

With Kinect, Skyrim’s Dragon Shouts are easier to bellow (hands-on)

Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensing system is making its way into hardcore games, but not in the way everyone thought. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, one of the hottest-selling games from the fall, will exploit the voice-recognition feature in Kinect so that …

Kinect/voice support coming to Skyrim

Bethesda is rolling out a free update later this month for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim that adds over 200 voice commands to the game via the Kinect accessory.