CES 2010: Project Natal coming this year

More gaming news from the ongoing CES 2010, Microsoft has officially pinned down the release date of Project Natal to “holiday season 2010”. Aside from the big news, the company has also announce a brand new XBL Game Room, teased some blockbuster exclusives and highlights another record breaking year of Xbox 360.

More gaming news from the ongoing CES 2010, Microsoft has officially pinned down the release date of Project Natal to “holiday season 2010”. Aside from the big news, the company has also announce a brand new XBL Game Room,  teased some blockbuster exclusives and highlights another record breaking year of Xbox 360.

Here are some important highlights of Microsoft’s keynote:

• There are now over 39 million Xbox 360 consoles around the world, and more than 500 million games have been sold.
• Between Christmas and New Years Day, Xbox LIVE experienced its busiest week ever, adding a new member every second and a record of more than 2.2 million concurrent members online.
• Nearly 10 million people have logged into Xbox LIVE’s nongaming applications — Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Last.fm, Sky, Canal and Zune — using their Xbox as a way to stay connected to friends and family.
• Xbox LIVE membership is now an active community of over 20 million people.
• An lineup of what promises to be blockbuster exclusive games including Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction, Crackdown 2, Mass Effect 2, Alan Wake, and Fable 3
• The release of what will likely be the biggest game of the year, Halo Reach, continuing the Halo saga
• The new Game Room on Xbox LIVE, which will be the place to relive the glory days of arcade games, with over 1000 games being released throughout the next three years
• Scheduled to be available in holiday season 2010, “Project Natal” is only the most recent example of Microsoft’s work creating natural user interfaces.