Microsoft Kinect for XBox Slim: Microsoft Kinect hands free motion controller - Microsoft has made official the rebadging of a device desperately seeking a new name: "Project Natal" is no more, replaced by Microsoft Kinect.

Holiday release is expected, to give the Xbox 360 a nice sales boost, but we're hearing price rumors as high as $150. Microsoft got a head start Sunday night by incorporating its game system and footage from new titles into a performance by Cirque Du Soleil at the University of Southern California.

The performance troupe, which spent four months developing "a customized experience," took its inspiration for the event from Kinect, the official name of what had been known as Project Natal under development.

Nothing official has been released from Microsoft with release dates of UK prices but we do anticipate a release a month or two before Christmas.