Microsoft’s gesture-recognition controller, Kinect, set to hit 
stores this November, will launch with a price tag of $150, the company announced Tuesday.
The peripheral, which will come with a copy of the “Kinect Adventures” game, is priced higher than many analysts and game industry executives were hoping for.
Given the success Nintendo has had with the
revolutionary controller for the Wii, it was really only a matter of time before Microsoft and Sony followed the same path.
Both companies have spent millions of dollars developing their own motion control systems—and both have high hopes and expectations for their success.
(Note: I do not choose the headlines on Daily Variety stories.)
Two years ago, Microsoft announced plans to compete against 
television programmers on their own turf. On Thursday, the company conceded the first round to the networks.
After two successful seasons, the Microsoft has cancelled “1 vs. 100,” an online adaptation of the Endemol-created NBC gameshow. The game was the centerpiece of an experiment called Xbox Live Primetime — a scheduled series of interactive games that represented the videogame industry’s first serious foray into turf dominated by TV. It was a hit, too, setting a Guinness World Record for the most simultaneous contestants in a gameshow at 114,000.
For years, Hulu has been the great white whale for content 
streaming devices. Virtually everyone has tried to lure the service beyond its PC roots, with no success.
That changes today, with the introduction of Hulu Plus, a new premium subscription service from the site. For $9.99 per month, subscribers will be able to access a full season’s worth of their favorite TV shows, rather than a select handful. As part of the rollout, Hulu has also announced it will begin streaming Hulu Plus on a variety of Internet-enabled TVs, Blu-Ray devices and the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 over the coming months.
Chris Morris: Journalist 