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Kinectimals Press Coverage from E3

Kinectimals was one of the top talking points of E3 – here is some of the great press coverage to make sure there's nothing you might have missed. The demo booth was packed with people throughout all three days of the event and the Microsoft press conference received much praise so there's plenty of great coverage for you to sink your teeth into and enjoy with us.

"Hottest Children's Christmas Gift 2010"
http://inventorspot.com/articles/hottest_childrens_christmas_gift_2010_kinectimals_43482

"The game has caused a bit of an uproar online, with some bloggers saying it's the start of a new era of kid interaction with video games"
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/06/14/kinectimals.microsoft/index.html

"Kinectimals is a top contender for the title of 'cutest game of all time.'"
http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/109/1097743p1.html

"Kinectimals has everything to become a huge hit this Holiday season."
http://www.i4u.com/article35167.html

"The loveable Kinectimals (game of the year, clearly, if you can just get the title out of your throat) lets you adopt 40 unique animals and enjoy 30 different events. You can make tigers skip rope in bullet-time."
http://www.edge-online.com/features/analysis-microsoft-press-conference-0

"So far, this is the most impressive thing we've seen from Kinect."
http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/06/17/kinectimals-is-as-cute-as-its-name-is-terrible.aspx

Choice Twitter Comments

Over the duration of E3, Twitter has been alive with talk about Kinect for Xbox 360 and Kinectimals. We've gone through what you've all been saying and selected some choice Tweets. If you have something you want to say about Kinectimals then send us a tweet @frontierdev and we'll re-publish it on our channel!

@ActiveNick "My future kid's first word's probably won't be 'mommy' or 'dada', it'll be 'Xbox, start Kinectimals' :)"

@TF_Touya I just wanna say. Kinectimals melted my heart. My niece and I will be buying one Day One Purchase.

@Batman5273 My daughter just watched the #Kinectimals trailer 5 times in a row. I know what I am buying in November

@jordandroid Jesus why am I getting teary about the Kinectimals demo? That's just adorable ;-;

@coffeeshrk Can't let my daughter see Kinectimals.

@MachXGames I secretly want to play Kinectimals, but don't tell anyone! :)

@aceybongos There's a massive 6'2" South African bloke next to me whose heart just melted at Kinectimals. The power of Kinect! #XboxE3

 

As part of our E3 round-up you can also:

See the Kinectimals video coverage from E3
Visit the official Kinectimals website
Visit the official Kinect website